On 18/01/2010

2010 Update

A new bike will be launched in April 2010, called the Hunter, this is aimed at all you Mega Avalanche riders, 170mm travel through an RP23 air shock. Looks very similar to an F5 DH bike, but a lot lighter. Will be test riding her shortly, will follow up with a small test report here. Image to follow#

Just returning from the 2010 MSC bikes launch, there are some new designs on the way and a huge discount on the Nosko bikes, also a Mini DH bike, watch this space

MSC UK are please to announce that James Stock has joined us for 2009, he picked up his new shiny F5 and promptly disapeared off to the 1st World Cup in France. Will keep you posted on his results.

Alex Bond has just sent a text in, to let us know how he's getting on in sunny Portugal, 3rd overall at the street race, well done Alex, please return to the UK and bring some of the sunshine.

Fantastic news coming from Sam Flockhart, he has won the third round of the Maxxis Cup in Cadet category, with a rear puncture, this gives Sam the overall win in the series 3 out of 3, congratulations go to Sam and his Dad for getting him out there.

April 4th and 5th saw the first round of the sold out Pearce series, being held at the ever popular Bringewood, just outside Ludlow Shropshire, MSC DH team members James Flinders and Callum Dew were entered. This was Callum's first outing on the new F5, finishing in the top 15 of the juniors. Flinders had a big off on Saturday, having what looked like Elephant Mans hand after and several gravel burns, he managed to ride through the pain on Sunday only to stack again on his 2nd race run, finishing 14th in Expert, his split time was in the top 10 overall, some good signs of things to come for the team.

Ross Anderson, newly promoted to Expert in 2009 was at the Northern DH race at Rothbury, new venue and organisers, he grabbed a second place in cat, so well done Ross.

The 2009 MSC UK DH Team has got off to a flying start at the Maxxis Cup. Some of the lucky team riders went out to round 1 and stopped over for round 2. New rider on the team for 2009 is young gun Sam Flockhart who only picked up his new F5 on the Tuesday night before catching a stupid o'clock ferry over to Portugal, where he then proceeded to destroy the Cadets in rounds 1 and 2.

Last weekend 4th and 5th April saw the first round of the British National XC series at Sherwood Pines, Nottingham, with nearly 500 riders pre entered the series is looking like it's well and truly back on track for 2009. MSC had it's first full outing of the XC team, the guy's all turned up looking ultra professional to find a full on trade pitch available to them, 3 ezeups, tea and coffee a microwave and a PS2. The very relaxed atmosphere of Saturday turned to racing on Sunday with a few nerves showing. First up the Juveniles, iCycles MSC taking first spot through 1 of the Wilcox twins, then onto Elite with Paul Robertson. First lap out and Paul picks up a slow puncture, finally manages to get it sorted and his last lap was his fastest. Then onto Experts, with Giles and Jason, both having had good off season's, both were looking strong and comfortable on their new MSC carbon bikes, both had some bad look, Giles got taken out and Jason puntured. Then last but not least Mark in Seniors, he was having a flier well up the field, then disaster struck a mechanical, the riders all seemed happy and now know where they need to be, roll on round 2.

Casual clothing for the DH team

MSC's 2009 dh team has hooked up its casual clothing supplier, this new company run by ex dh'er Damian Wood is No limits Sports company, there new and exiting range of clothing and accessories can be found at www.nolimitssportscompany.co.uk expect to see the riders at a race near you soon.

Team Boss Steve Parr had this to say "Damian approached MSC a short time ago and introduced his clothing range to us, having spent some time with No Limits we can't wait for 2009 season to begin, those boy's is gonna be looking good in their exclusive casual clothing"

The new Cross country team now has its own blog, you can keep up to date with them on mscbikes.blogspot.com for all the racing and anything else of interest

Many Thanks to Tim Flooks of "TF tuned" fame for confirming his excellent services are retained by the team for 2009. Go to www.tftunedshox.com and check out the great service provided by Tim and his team.

MSC UK's XC and DH team are proud to announce they will be running the ultra successful Maxxis tyres for the 2009 season and we would like to take the opportunity to welcome Maxxis onboard.

MSC UK are proud to announce they will be co sponsors of the UK NPS XC and Scottish XC Series.

MSC UK now have an XC team, who will be competing in the NPS, SXC and various other XC races around the country in 2009. The 4-5 rider team will be running the all new Carbon Koncept and Carbon WCR bikes. Demo bikes should be available at any round the MSC pit is set up, please bring some id if you wish to take a bike for a demo.

Congratulations go to Ross Anderson on his first season with MSC, finishing first overall in Seniors at the NPS and 1st overall in the BC rankings.

He will be moving into Experts for 2009 onboard the all new F5

On 16/09/2008

2009 bikes

We have just uploaded images of the new 2009 MSC bike range, more info and prices to come soon.

On 29/06/2008

Sponsors

MSC UK have hooked up some sweet team deals for 2010, the companies supporting us are:

Fenwicks, will be providing us with bike cleaner and lubes to keep the bikes shiny and smooth running

Ison with their new MRP G2 chain device

TF tuned, keeping all our forks and shocks running sweet as, lookout for the "bos" shock on 1

Fisher outdoor, have the team on SRAM gearing and Rock Shock forks.

Avid have sorted all our braking needs out for both XC and DH teams Maxxis are supporting MSC with the super tacky black rubber 661, will be supplying kit and safety equipment, to keep our bodies safe and sound

On 28/06/2008

Season round up

What a start to 2008, Ross Anderson and Martin Nairn are flying up in Scotland, but poor old Tally is crashing! Callum Dew has notched up 2 well deserved podiums in the ever competitve Youth cat, whilst James Flinders and Kieron McAvoy continue to improve on their new bikes, in the Expert category. Moving on to the old boys, Martin Crocket and Steve Parr are going well, Crocket podiums at every Pearce round, but has sat out the NPS, for some unknown reason. The F4 has been an outstanding success story worldwide for MSC and has sold out, the good news is that the F5 will be available in September. MSC UK will be reviewing its DH team and offering test rides to hopefulls. Also watchout for reviews of the Zion and Carbon Zion in future issues of MBUK.

On 23/06/2008

Welcome to Msc Bikes UK

Welcome to the MSC UK news section of this website. The MSC brand has been in continual development and evolution since it was established in 1999 by Father and Son, Luis and Ferran Marias Sorribes. The UK has now been added to this growing empire, MSC bikes UK is run by Steve Parr, who also is 1 half of the duo transforming the image and structure of the UK national DH race series. In its first year MSC UK established a small DH team racing at national and regional level, in our second year this has grown to a 9 strong team, with the possibility of an endurance/XC team in 2009. MSC is a company owned and run by riders, who are continually striving to gain an edge in competition or just riding against your mates.

On 09/12/2007

News Live!

Keep it locked to mscbikes.co.uk for all the news about the bikes, including where you can get hold of one for a test ride!