You never know what Chris Akrigg is going to do next. For this video, he’s gone back in time and videoed himself riding trails and trials on his old, fully rigid hardtail, with canti brakes and tiny handlebars.
Never fear, though, he’s never without his Oakley Blades and his pink fanny-pack.
With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
I honestly don’t know why I bother – bloody superb riding!
cracking, up to the loft for getta grip and dirt etc.
Cyclin at its best. No g……