With 25 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps holds the record for 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.
Chipps stepped down as Editor in April 2026 after 25 years at the helm. He's now wondering what to do next, while riding his bike in the French Pyrenees, where he also runs some gites.
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If they don’t release 10spd gripshift to go with all this new stuff I might cry..!!!
colours look cheap as (well I would say Chips but that might be taken the wrong way)
+1 on the tacky look of the stuff. But its better than the XO
Looks good to me, would only buy the silver or graphite anyway. If it works half as well as the first gen x9 stuff, well worth a look.
Hope the cassettes are a bit cheaper than the first gen XX ones. a 2 digit number would be ace.