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February Offers #3 Sweet Specials

Posted by DesMes on February 7th, 2012 Posted in Paddling News

Welcome to the third installment of our fabulous Feb offers…..this week we have some special offers on Sweet Gear Numbers are limited so strictly first come first serve. on offer you will Find everything to look good, be safe both on and off the river

February Offers #2 Kayak Specials

Posted by DesMes on February 6th, 2012 Posted in Product News & Information

Second installment of our offers……..let it snow, let it snow as the song goes so we can have more melt water. We have some more great offers to brighten up your week, Wilderness and Valley Sea Kayaks, Valley Surf Kayaks and a range of play boats for every size….

February Offers #1

Posted by DesMes on February 1st, 2012 Posted in Product News & Information

Stock take is now finished for a whole year, we can all start thinking about paddling trips again now however we did find a few things that we would like to clear out so below is a list and some images of just some of the kit and boats on clearance for this month.

BIC Adventure 150 Composite Kayak

Posted by DesMes on January 29th, 2012 Posted in Product News & Information

So you think BIC just make pen’s…….well you would be wrong, we here at DM’s have been selling the ever more popular Bic Sit-on-tops for a few years now, but even we didn’t see this great kayak coming ! The 2012 BIC Adventure 150 is a 15′ composite touring kayak for lakes, estuary’s and gentile sea paddling.

Joe Morley’s New Year Trips

Posted by DesMes on January 27th, 2012 Posted in Friends of Desperate Measures, Paddling News

  My New year started with two very different forms of water. Firstly there was the cold Yorkshire water that filled the swale:- My self, David Bain, Anton Lippek and a few of the local paddlers met up and did a couple of runs on the short but intense upper swale from Hoggarths bridge to [...]

Lendal Paddle Give Away

Posted by DesMes on January 18th, 2012 Posted in Product News & Information

Its that time of year where we whisk through our shop counting all of the goodies, this year we have found a number of odd Lendal blades and we would like to give them away, to any indevidual that may have lost/broken a blade.

2012 Playboat Showdown

Posted by DesMes on January 17th, 2012 Posted in Product News & Information

Where do we begin……2012 is going to be a real adventure for us Here at DM’s we are full steam ahead planning our Birthday celebrations for our 30th year in business and as a nice early present we are pleased to announce we will soon have two new Playboat’s to offer up to the freestyle community, Titan Kayaks Genesis 2012 and the All New Pyranha JED I can tell you we are really fired up about both of these new kayaks.

Revised Weekend Hours

Posted by DesMes on January 16th, 2012 Posted in Paddling News

Desperate Measures New weekend Opening Times Saturdays 9am Until 5pm Sundays 10am Until 4pm

Lendal Paddles in stock…

Posted by DesMes on January 10th, 2012 Posted in Paddling News

We have just taken delivery of several boxes of Lendal paddles Blade shapes are Kinetic, Kinetic XTI, Kinetic Tour, Mania, Fusion, Archipelago, Gremlin, Logik, Mystik, Nordkapp and a few Powermasters We have 2 piece, 3 piece and even 4 piece splits Straight or bent shafts Over the next few days these will be published on [...]

Christmas Opening Hours (22 December 2010 – 3 January 2011)

Posted by DesMes on December 21st, 2011 Posted in Paddling News

Below is a table containing our shop opening hours over the Christmas and New Year period, we have also incorporated the White Water Course opening hours as well We’ve also decided not to charge our usual demo fee between the 27th of December and the 2nd of January. Of course, this is subject to availability, [...]