With 23 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.)
Rachel Atherton Out For The Season
World Downhill Champ Rachel Atherton is having surgery on her injured shoulder which will put her out for most of the season. Undeterred, she hopes to be back in time…
Good news! Sustrans has good news for pro-ride to school campaigners. The bad news is that it\'s still under 10% that ride every day, though 26% ride at least once…
Colours from Lezyne, Santa Cruz, crazy military types from Genuine Innovations, the Ibis Tranny in orange, funky vicar bars from FSA, a singlespeed Specialized carbon and carbon fibre dog bowls.
Chipps got a sneak preview of a good looking and \'back to basics\' Marzocchi. They\'re focussing on their previous strengths with a return to open bath cartridges and coil springs.
Sea Otter Report Six – Team Bikes and Precious Things
Chipps delves deep into the pits, peeks behind some curtains and finds out some of the hot-tuning mods that the pros are running. A time trial shifter on a dirt…
Another random look round the pits of the Sea Otter with Chipps. Chub hubs, cranks from the Hive, the Santa Cruz freakbike, Rocky Mountain 29ers, the Ibis Tranny and more...
The Best Mountain Bike Video Ever? (Fixed link too)
My favourite five minute MTB video ever… There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE FOR LESS THAN 6p/DAY If you have…
It\'s 2010 time at SRAM - and they have a brand new Revelation for you, with a huge amount of options and new chassis, there\'s coloured XO, Centrelock Avid discs,…
We\'ve still got Christmas cake leftover here and already Fox Racing Shox are showing off their 2010 forks at a press camp in California. Fortunately the future is closer than…
Just a quick one for you. Specialized pro riders have been spotted riding brand new carbon 29ers – in both hardtail AND full suspension Epic flavours. Todd Wells and...
First day of the first big race... Lots of new stuff on display. The usual \'sunburn and freezing wind weather too. All is well. Tomorrow sees the big SRAM launch…
We\'re off to the Sea Otter tomorrow, where all the fun starts, but in the meantime, here\'s a smart - if niche - singlespeed \'cross bike from Rock Lobster Cycles,…
It\'s another new Santa Cruz! Only this time it\'s a 5in+ bike made from carbon fibre that\'ll handle anything you throw at it and still come in under 28lbs... {Apologies…
The press release says things like \'...launches Worldwide Centers of Excellence Strategy\' but the reality is that Cannondale\'s parent company has decided to stop making frames in the US and…
Demands by pro riders for better visibility for wet and overcast races has led to the development of Giro\'s \'clearest lens ever\' for their Havik model.
Straitline Components and Ryan Berrecloth to Release Bear Systems TM
Packing for Whistler or the \'shore this summer? Full-face - check. Body armour - check. Cool clothes - check. Bear bell - ch...what? New laws will mean that ALL riders…
The Big Welsh Weekend is now the Singletrack Big Welsh Weekend
Singletrack is stepping up to sponsor the successful \'Big Welsh Weekend\' event that runs on the last weekend in May. Come and ride or race with us and with much…
Custom colour, component matched Intense EVO and Tazer frames. Very tasty bikes there chaps... Nigel Page\'s team riders are just off to their first race in South Africa and their…
Here are a few vaguely mountain bike related YouTube clips to help speed the weekend closer to you... Worth getting the headphones out if you\'re in an office where you\'re…
Two days to go until the second stop of the 2009 Premier Demo Series at Cwmcarn, South Wales.
This means that in just two days time you could be swinging your leg over demo bikes from Turner, Intense, Lapierre, Cove and Rocky Mountain before heading out onto some…
Fresh from their team gold in the Downhill at the BUSA championships, Mountain Bikers from the University of Manchester took on Sir Chris Hoy on Monday. The challenge was to...
