Unify the dirt

One dirty page.

Everything dirt in Tasmania is somewhere different — the rides in a dozen Facebook groups, the clubs on websites from 2014, the good mechanic a mate's brother knows, the trails you're actually allowed on, the videos worth your time. If you're a dad with a bike and a few spare hours a month, finding it is harder than riding it.

Drty Bike Dads puts it all on one page. We'll miss things. Tell us and we'll add them.

What this is

A calendar, a directory, a short list of things worth watching, and a monthly email. Three lanes — MTB, Dirt, Adv — in that order because we had to pick one. It's not a ranking and nobody graduates from one to the next.

What this isn't

• Not for sale. No ads, no affiliate links, no paid listings, nothing of ours to buy. If that ever changes it'll be written down here first, and the ledger will be public.
• Not a club. No membership, no committee, no rides in our name. The clubs and groups we point to do the real work and have for years.
• Not complete. We do our best. The calendar is checked twice a week and the directory by hand, and we'll still miss things.
• Not serious. It's bikes in the dirt. If a line on this site reads like a council newsletter, that's a bug.

Who's behind it

A dad in Hobart who moved back to Tasmania, got busy, and kept missing the good rides because they were posted somewhere he wasn't looking. This is the fix. The site is run mostly by a small crew of software agents with hard enduro riders' names; everything they add gets checked by a human before it goes up.

Get in touch

Missing ride, dead link, a club we should know about, a mechanic worth listing: hello@drtybikedads.com, or add a ride directly.