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10th september
RUARIDH CUNNINGHAM IS WORLD CHAMPION!
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7th september
Yet again, the responsibility of making people extra rapid on a bike rests with us, the man: Ruaridh cunningham, our longest endorsee, the place, Fort William, the goal, coming back World Champion, can he do it, he reckon he's got a shot.......we all KNOW he has! Igive you Gumps worlds lid.
3rd September
World champs started today at Fort Bill, i'm not there yet, still at my 9-5 during the week, although i have the weekend off, so i'll be winging myself tp Invernesshire to catch up with some pals and do some hob-nobbing!, speaking of hob-nibbing, they dont come much better than our pal Helen Gaskell, yet again, she chose us to do a special one of world champs helmet design for her big week in the spotlight, you can check it out in our helmet gallery page, by clicking the pic below!
22nd August
I shalt brag, but we do know how to pick em' at the Scottish championships at AE orest the other week, we bagged a few wins, no less than 4 scottish champions crowned racing in mfxairart creations, i wont dwell, suffice to say CONGRATULATIONS! to the riders pictured below:
Joe Barnes
Ruaridh Cunningham
Jaymie Mart
Lewis Buchanan
20th August
I cant believe its a month since i touched this page, anyway, all my mates are having kids, and ours aint far away now, but in the meantime, me and wild Geeson went to.........
................The scottish champs
Freezing, wet, muddy, but not a seven hour drive, someone dragged rheola up the west coast and dumped it an our from my door, race day was however pretty cool, we spent most of the day with our hosts, Ray and Linda Cunningham, (gumps parents) sipping coffee and scranning steak and gravy pies, and we're a bit too old for all this anyway? theres talk afoot of ruaridh being offered some good rides next year, i cant believe its only been a couple of years since Scott and Carl packed him and Joe Barnes into a tranny van and started them on thier way, how quick time goes by eh? the Craic was good as usual, and all the usual suspects were there, apart from the usual masters and most of the irish, as the world masters champs was on the same weekend in pra-loup, fair enough eh, south of france or dumfries, bit of a no brainer eh? Anyway, who won....... we did really!! three podiums had the tops occupied by our co-sponsored riders, and we gained two Scottish Campions for our records.
Lewis Buchanan. last/dtd/mfx 1st (scottish juvenile champ)
Jaymie Mart. team barbados/mfx 1st
As i keep saying, our paint makes you quicker, the proof's in the puddin'
Factory Jackson or what!, gump trims his spike for the big push!!
25th July 2007
Check out the latest issue of "wideopen" magazine look at the pic below and read it: Scott, James & jamie have been hard at it producing a killer issue!...............Peaty, Solid bikes, King of dirt, UK and UCI race repo's, Gump, Miami, Chopper, Nemesis, product reviews.....i could go on, click on the pic and enjoy. Its how mags are meant to be!
10th July 2007
Well, what a day, theres a buzz around the junior catagories of downhill racing right now, both at national and international level, not least created my the battle between Josh Bryceland (royal/santacruz) and our guy Ruaridh Cunningham (Bikelove Glasgow)'
On sunday at the 4th round of the Nissan UCI world cup at Schladming saw Ruaridh wrestle back the overall world cup leaders jersey from josh, with an amazing 17th place making him first junior over the line, this leaves him a series leader just 16 points ahead of Bryceland and with the guys both travelling to Maribor for the next round for the first time, the playing field is well and truly level and set up for an amazing finale.
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Gary perkin's photo of ruaridh, nailing the course says everything about this boy, fast focused and dedicated to making good on all the commitment that veryone has given to support him, everyone had faith in his talent, but even we have to admit that he's done the business this season. Good luck in slovenia mate.
Podium hogger!
9th July 2007
We we went down to the woods today....Me and Carl went for a (long) day out on the bike today, i had to mention it, as it was a blast, went to inners with Guy who was lovin' his new 888's then we retired to Glentress with George and Billy, soakin' in the rays at the freeride park, trying to look like we knew what we were doing ( which proved difficult as we are both very old and have little talent) George saved the day around 4 o'clock when he whipped out his wee cooker and magic'd up some bacon rolls and coffee, top bloke! a good day had by all, stay tuned for a possible XC race being attended by all of the above!
Feeding time at the Zoo
6th July 2007
Check out the new section on the website, to aid our customers in the design stages of thier paint job, we've added a template page with some popular templates, if you need a template for your lid, drop us a line and we'll see what we can do, click on the image to have a look.
1st July 2007
At last, got done doing a job for another one of our endorsees, the irripressable Jaymie Mart, world cup rider and hob nobber extrordinaire, with her barbadian roots she wanted a hyabiscus flower theme and a clean feminine look, you can check out Jaymies lid at most SDA, NPS and UCI DH rounds this year. Check it out, we love it!
21st may 2007
Mfxairart.com are pleased to announce elite downhiller and dirtschool.co.uk founder Chris Ball as a 2007 season endorsee, having done a deal with Chris late on in the closed season, we pinned down a basic theme and Al went to work, creating a design pitching his 2007 sponsors including Intense, Dirtschool.co.uk and of course mfxairart.com.
17th May 2007
One of our endorsee's and NPS series leader, Wee Lew Buchanan has just made a promo vid, filmed at innerliethen, got some great riding action and some shots of his lid, take a minute to check it out, its well cool.
15th May 2007
CHECK THIS OUT!
After some Jibba Jabba with Damien at Dirtworker uk we are proud to be supported by this really cool product.
The dirtworker is a 3.5 gallon 70psi mobile power washer about the size of a briefcase, you fill it up befor you leave, and when your are ready, you plug it into your car cigar lighter and bang, you're off it's a well cool product, saving time, effort and the nagging that inevitably ensues when dragging a dirty bike through the house! you can clean your wellies with it too, in fact anything really, if you want a demo, just ask the guys at the races to show it off, if you want to know about this cool product go to the dirtworker website.
14th May 2007
Vigo UCI-DH#1 news
We have a winner!!! Ruaridh Cunningham tops the podium at the first round of the UCI downhill world cup at Vigo, Spain, proving that our paint definately makes you faster, i'm so exited i cant write any more! so heres a pic of the gump (right) and Marc Beumont on the podium!
23rd April 2007
NPS#1 Short report
Nps#1 this weekend at innerliethen also, a great weeknd that went off without much of a hitch judging by initial reactions, a great weekend for our team and co-sponsored riders alike, also some of our faster customers done the business too! anyway, here's a short repo, as i'm too ill to go in depth :-(
First up.........Gump, this boy is toooo fast, again with his uber supportive Ma, n' Pa in tow in the mirth mobile, winning his catagory and notching up the second fastest time of the day overall, just 2 seconds behind steve peat himself, beating Dan & Gee, Greg Minarr and Marc Beumont to mention a few. Top Drawer performance!!
Wee Lew, HE WON MAN! What a result for the wee man, finally piloting his Herb to victory in the juvy class, you have to see this boy to appreciate how quick he is, finally settling into his bike, he found his feet and delivered, well done mate, here's to many more!
Couple of Valued customers sporting the Trick paint of mfxairart, were: Helen Gaskell, team Halfords / Bikehut world cup rider Finishing 2nd, in between Rach atherton in 1st and Fionn Griffiths in 3rd, nice on Hels!
Also, stony faced privateer Marcus Williams, finished 8th in juniors 2 places behind our very own Hutch, not too shabby!
18th April 2007
Like we said we would, its now £150+ post for a custom helmet job, making it accessible to everyone, we can do this because of some new techniques and equipment we have aquired recently, call or e-mail us for more details on how you can look lush for less!!
16th April 2007
Get the lowdown on the first round of the SDA#1 downhill race in innerliethen here our guys were amazing, proving that our paint makes you faster, Joe Barnes, Chris Hutchens, Helen Gaskell, Ruaridh Cunningham and Wee Lew Buchanan, were all on the podium "FAST PAINT"
Just had a Q & A with top geezer Elbry from NSF website its up now for all to see, there are no pictures of me on it, so its safe for the kids, there are some of hutch though, so mibbe not! look here at your own risk!
4th April 2007
Busy moth already this one! check out our chinwag with fat Tyre e-zine here Jimasks AL about life in general and the ins and outs of running mfxairart, thanks to the guys at fat tyre, check them out here.
3rd April 2007
Bikes by john has opened in johnstone, John is an old pal o' mine who has had a lifelong dream to open his own bike shop, check him out at www.bikesbyjohn.co.uk or at 48 Macdowall Street Johnstone.
1st April 2007
So i we didnt feel left out, Brian and i hooked ourselves up with some tasty orange "fives" just to give tha' whippersnappers something to think about!! Built the first one today, luvvverly!
18th March 2007
New issue of Edgemtbmag out this week, check out the feature on helens new lid and our mention on the home page
8th March 2007
Just finished a really cool lid for Helen Gaskell, world number 5 team halfords downhill racer, you can check it out in the helmet galleries, also near completion on a helmet for european masters downhill champion Joe Ward, watch this space!
Also, check out Dirt magazine this month, we are running a copetition with brooklyn machine works to win a custom painted park-bike hardtail frame, latest issue is in the shops now!
3rd march 2007
Ok i was trawling the old site files and found some web features. Now obviously we have progressed a bit from some these links, but if you dont know who we are or what we do, you can have a look at the links below, for old times sake.
Ok, as you can see, we have a new website, so i'll be updating regularly from now on, also i'll be posting blogs and bullitins on the mfxairart myspace site.
Some cool things happening, we have got the guts of our 2007 dh mountain bike team sorted, we have 4 top scottish riders, Chris Hutchens (junior), Joe Barnes (elite), Chris Coates (expert) and Brian Middleton (masters), all are seasoned riders at the top of thier catagories! Keep updated with in the racing team section of the site soon, for updates, its all happenin'
Check out dirt magazine issue 62 page 48, mfxairart & brooklyn machine works are running a comp to design some cool graphics for a new tee-shirt, the winner will have thier tee shirt made and released as official bmw merchandise, and winn a bmw parkbike, custom painted by us, based on your winning design, Get out, get it, and enter now!
MMMMMMMMM, Juicy.......Fox 40's arrived this morning, Brian was already in our car park in the mirth-mobile unloading these lovelies, thanks to mojo for the help and support, looking forward to fitting these over the next couple of days to some freshly painted Custom built orange224's
11th february 2007
Times are a changing for us, we've decided to sponsor the National Points Series for downhill mountinbiking this coming 2007 season.
We are giving away some Troy Lee D2 helmets away (with custom paint of course) and some vouchers for paint alone, to Junior, youth, veteran and master serieswinner catagories, we should be attending most of these races with our own cyclejersey / mfxairart team so give us a tap on the shoulder to see if we can do anything for you?
This year the nps is being run by our friend Si paton and his partner Steve Parr of SPS events, they have a wealth of experience between them with regard to the running of this type of event and we are super exited to be a part of it. Best o' luck boys!!
5th february 2007
You may remember in december 2006 we painted a bike and helmet to take Dakar racer Robbie Allan across north africa in style.
Well, he made it back, and we finaly spoke to him today, Robbie, who attemped the awesome dakar rally at the ripe age of 65 was in good spirits about his experience, It was Robbie’s first attempt at the awesome north African desert race and he deserves tremendous respect for even thinking about tackling the world’s toughest event.
However, after completing several awesome stages that saw many retirements from much younger, fitter men, Robbie’s adventure sadly came to an end on stage seven during a horrific sand storm, which forced the organisers to reduce the length of the stage for safety reasons. Robbie succumbed to an asthma attack and just could not proceed.
Well done Robbie, mucho respect, Robbie is also one of the driving forces behind the Scottish motor sport show, to be held at Lanark this year, get along and meet the legend!!!
27th january 2007
Last year Mr Grian Gibb of the cyclejersey.com approached me to help out with this years dh racing team, by the end of the conversation i'd thrown my hat into the ring for the full bhoona! after a few months effin' around, we now have the support of orange mountain bikes and will shortly be taking delivery of some shiny new 224's we are still looking for support with a lot of issues but we are well on our way..................................stay tuned!!
Stay up to date by logging onto descent-world for the latest news in downhill mountainbiking.
28th December 2006
Just got back from a dark and gloomy Innerliethen and settled the first sponsorship deal of next season, up & coming downhill whippet Lewis Buchanan will be sporting mfxairart livery next year. Lewis has been racing a couple of years now and has had some amazing results, he'll be sporting a couple of D2 helmets with mfx paintwork to his design, incorparating his sponsors logo's and some personal touches of his own, Lewis' dad Grant approached us on the hill at Innerliethen a while ago and we were flabberghasted with his commitment to getting his son to the top of his game, we are exited to be working with lewis, who is a genuine talent for the future, take a second to visit his site and offer some support to this homegrown father / son team.
20th December 2006
Check out MBUK issue 207 this month, have a look at the feature with Rob Jarman horsin' down a bobsliegh track on his mountain bike sporting an mfxairart painted helmet, Rob rides for Berghaus and is a gun for hire, doing stuntwork for tv and taking part in sports and endevours most of us watch through our fingers!
19th December 2006
Check out dirt magazine Issue 61. mfxairart.com was vited in the top 5 prodcts & companies of 2006 by one of thier leading correspondents, A big honour for us! to be included in any list like this means we are doing something right, we love to serve the mountainbike community, and hope to continue to provide a service that warrants such an accolade.
11th December 2006 , A quick review of the year.
I'm just gonna plod away here, i'm hoping to update this news page every couple of weeks, so you can see what we're up to, and get an just list any media or special events thet we're up to, so i'm gonna start it with an update on the year past.
First up, we've become quite the hit with some of the guys at www.descent-world.co.uk and have been fortunate enought to have had some products reviewed in thier pages, some links below .
Our first feature here Morewood feature here 5150 feature here.
Also, Jon, Si and the boys have given us our very own on-line forum, to give everyone advice and discounted rates on getting your bike or helmet painted, click here and get registered to get your 10% discount
TV.....Yes tv, we've even made it onto the box, after the uci world cup, sponsored riders, Joe barnes and The Gump were featured on "the adventure show" sporting thier mfxairart lids and doing the business also, soon get this video up on you-tube for general consumption!
Also the man of the moment, as featured on the 6o'clock news, Robbie Allan the 65 year old nutcase from lanark, is racing the dakar rally this year, with an mfxairart painted bike and helmet, hope fully being followed as part of a documentary on how to grow old disgacefully!
Also, we got a feature on pinkbike, the daddy of all review sites, already read by over 23.000 people, click here to read it.
The other undertakings include featured riders Doing rather well in mtb competition, first up Ruaridh Cunningham of the now sadly defunct Morewood racing europe, The gump finished 1st in the SDA series and 3rd in the national series and attended all the european rounds of the uci world cup, a great season! Also, there was Joe Barnes also for moorewood, finishing 2nd only to the gump in the SDA series, and a great 5th overall in the national series, Joe also attended the european uci rounds, Lastly there was Joey Gough another rider for moorewood competing in the 4x dicepline, she travelled the world with her mfx paint and finished an amazing 7th in the world rankings and is also the national 4x champion. We'd like to thank these riders for thier efforts this year and congratulate them on thier success.
We'd also like to thank some folk, in no particular order: Jon_e, Si paton, Carl Geeson, Scott geeson, Joe and the Gump, Joey Gough, Mark huskisson, Stevie Stanway, Chris Watson @ store51, Robbie allan, Simon Murray, Hugh Mcghee @ vic-air, Rab Murdoch, Alan Cuthbertson, Neill and Craig Mcmartin, Wiggy Brown, Brian Gibb, Gorgeous George, Guy and Colin @ Laptops & computers, Mick and Joyce brownlee and of course my long suffering wife Donna. I'm sure there are more, so if you are not on this list, please accept my thanks for your support this year.
Also I'd like to thanks my dear friend, the late David Carmichael, Who sadly passed away earlier this year from a relapse of the cancer he had been suffering from for so long, David worked under me in Halfords with his brother Alister for many years, He always kept in touch, called in when his health permitted, and took great interest in everthing we were up to, a truly great man and an example to all of us how a life should be lived, He is sadly missed by us all......... Thanks Dave.
Thanks for taking the time to read this Bumf, Updates to follow. Merry Christmas
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