Look At These Customised Saracen Mysts Heading To The World Champs

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Why Tyre Pressures Matter – And Why You Need A Pressure Gauge

Modern mountain bikes come with a dizzying amount of adjustability. To get your riding position nice and comfy, you’ve got things like bar height, saddle tilt, saddle height and brake...

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Review: Spank Spike 35 Vibrocore Bar – Big, Burly, Comfy – And 820mm Wide!

Back in January, I tested a set of Spank bars with the company’s Vibrocore foam filling. Those were standard 31.8mm diameter bars, and I found that the foam insert did,...

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Review: The 2019 Scott Ransom 900 Tuned Is A 170mm Travel All Rounder

The big news from Scott Sports for 2019? The return of the Ransom – a model that first appeared in 2005 as a genre-bending All Mountain bike with a high-tech...

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All You Need To Know About The 2019 Scott Ransom

When Scott unveiled the brand new 150mm travel Genius platform last year, there was a suspicious absence of the long travel version. That seemed a little odd, because the Genius...

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These Are The 8 Bikes To Get Fox Live Valve First For 2019

After years of speculation and rumour, Fox finally announced Live Valve this week. If you want to know what Live Valve is and what it does we have a full...

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Spied: Sunn Kern Will Get 29in Wheels And A New Carbon Frame In 2019

If you have been involved in mountain biking as long as we have then you’ll remember French cycling brand Sunn, but if not here’s what you need to know. Way...

Back to the Future: From Singletrack Issue 120

Sanny dusts down his old ’90s race bike and takes on the quintessential Peaks route. Was the bike as good as he remembers, or is it a case of distance…

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These Are Our Top 12 Orange Bikes From The Past 30 Years

With the 30th Anniversary of Orange Bikes fast approaching we thought we would look over the past 3 decades and pick the Orange models that meant the most to us....

Beyonduro – Three big bikes that don’t fit under any label. So we made one up: Singletrack issue 120

Three big bikes that don’t fit under any label. So we made one up.

First Ride Review: 2019 Orbea Oiz

After fourteen years and only two generations of the Oiz, it was time for a change. Orbea has done just that with a host of improvements for the new 2019...

When did it all get so good? Chipps’ Issue 120 Editorial

I took a trip back in time recently, revisiting a place I used to ride when I was just starting out. Back then the mountain bike world was a rich,…

GT Fury Downhill Bike Returns!

Today, GT Bicycles has announced a new GT Fury downhill bike. Taking design and suspension cues from the complete revamp that the rest of the trail bike range (the Force...

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What Did You Do On Your 40th? Alan Horton Started A Bike Brand

If you had wanted to start your own bike brand just a few years back you might have looked into complex moulds, carbon layup or simply outsourcing manufacture to the...

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Giant Launches All-New Trance 29: A Mid-Travel Trail Smasher?

The Giant Trance 29 is pegged at the type of rider who wants to head out on an epic all day ride, one day, then hit an Enduro stage the...

Fresh Goods Friday 407: The “There’s only 2 of us in the office” Edition!

With the summer holidays now in full swing we’re down to a skeleton crew here at Singletrack Towers, but that’s good news for Andi and Chipps who get to go...

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Bike Check: Two Custom UK-Made Steel Hardtails From Islabikes

The 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12 was held over the weekend down at the historic Newnham Park venue in Plymouth, and despite the wild weather that rolled in through Sunday morning (and...

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First Look: Mondraker Foxy 29

We were a little sad when we had to say goodbye to our bright red Mondraker Foxy RR test bike a few weeks ago, but we can barely remember what...

First Ride Review: Merida’s New 2019 One-Twenty Trail Bike

Merida has recently launched a brand new One-Twenty trail bike for 2019. Featuring 120mm of rear suspension travel, a 130mm travel fork, and 29in or 27.5in wheels, the One-Twenty is...

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8 Bikes From The 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12

Of the hundreds of competitors that turned up for the 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12, there seemed to be just as many different bikes. Singlespeeds, fat bikes, full suspension enduro bangers, retro...

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Review: The latest Cotic SolarisMAX is one of the fastest hardtails we’ve tested

In case you hadn’t noticed, Cotic has been on absolute fire lately. The small Peak District-based company launched a new BFe hardcore hardtail just on a year ago, which then...

Review: The Acros Enduro is a carbon wheelset to survive the apocalypse

Tough, good value, are there any downsides to the Acros Enduro Race Carbon wheelset?

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Review: Mondraker Foxy RR: The Long, Low, Slack Do-It-All Bike

Look at any press release for a new bike and chances are that the bike company will shout from the rooftops are that they’ve gone longer, lower and slacker, but...

Review: RDR Ares – 11 Grand For A Race Bike? It Had Better Be Good…

RDR is a relatively small frame builder based in the mountains of Northern Italy. According to the website, RDR consists of the father (Vincenzo), his son (Nicolas) and one employee...

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Long Term Review: Did Wil ruin the Scott Genius 900 Tuned test bike with these 3 changes?

It’s now been six months since we first received the Scott Genius 900 Tuned longterm test bike. In that time, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to put it through its...

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Merida Has A Brand New One-Twenty Trail Bike For 2019

Merida has a brand new One-Twenty trail bike for 2019, and with a raft of frame and suspension updates, this one promises to be even more the versatile and capable...

Review: The Hoy Bonaly 24 is a great first mountain bike

The Hoy Bonaly range is Hoy Bikes’ answer to a mountain bike. It’s a step up from the usual children’s hybrid bikes – or hybrids with slightly knobbly tyres –...

19 Brands In 2 Days: CrankTank Impact Sun Valley Round Up

A couple of weeks ago Hannah went out to Ketchum, Idaho, to a new media event ‘Impact Sun Valley’. It was a chance for brands to get a bunch of……

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Rubber Round-Up: New Tyres Of Eurobike

‘Are you interested in e-bikes?’. It was hard not to roll your eyes when being asked this again. It’s where the market is at, everyone is trying to cash in,...

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This ain’t no HTTP Error – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 404!

The humans are dead. Beep-boop-boop-beep We left their salt-preserved corpses behind in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Beep-beep-ba-beep-boop Their tiny brains could not handle the critical levels of stimulation from all of the...

Look At These Customised Saracen Mysts Heading To The World Champs

Three Madison Saracen riders will be heading to the Downhill World Champs at Lenzerheide this weekend, and to mark the occasion they’ve all been given new custom painted Saracen Mysts....

bouwmeester tammar v4.8 carbon 27.5 wheels

Why Tyre Pressures Matter – And Why You Need A Pressure Gauge

Modern mountain bikes come with a dizzying amount of adjustability. To get your riding position nice and comfy, you’ve got things like bar height, saddle tilt, saddle height and brake...

spank spike 35 vibrocore review

Review: Spank Spike 35 Vibrocore Bar – Big, Burly, Comfy – And 820mm Wide!

Back in January, I tested a set of Spank bars with the company’s Vibrocore foam filling. Those were standard 31.8mm diameter bars, and I found that the foam insert did,...

scott ransom wil

Review: The 2019 Scott Ransom 900 Tuned Is A 170mm Travel All Rounder

The big news from Scott Sports for 2019? The return of the Ransom – a model that first appeared in 2005 as a genre-bending All Mountain bike with a high-tech...

scott ransom

All You Need To Know About The 2019 Scott Ransom

When Scott unveiled the brand new 150mm travel Genius platform last year, there was a suspicious absence of the long travel version. That seemed a little odd, because the Genius...

fox live valve header

These Are The 8 Bikes To Get Fox Live Valve First For 2019

After years of speculation and rumour, Fox finally announced Live Valve this week. If you want to know what Live Valve is and what it does we have a full...

sunn kern carbon 29

Spied: Sunn Kern Will Get 29in Wheels And A New Carbon Frame In 2019

If you have been involved in mountain biking as long as we have then you’ll remember French cycling brand Sunn, but if not here’s what you need to know. Way...

Back to the Future: From Singletrack Issue 120

Sanny dusts down his old ’90s race bike and takes on the quintessential Peaks route. Was the bike as good as he remembers, or is it a case of distance…

ORANGE t7 titanium hardtail

These Are Our Top 12 Orange Bikes From The Past 30 Years

With the 30th Anniversary of Orange Bikes fast approaching we thought we would look over the past 3 decades and pick the Orange models that meant the most to us....

Beyonduro – Three big bikes that don’t fit under any label. So we made one up: Singletrack issue 120

Three big bikes that don’t fit under any label. So we made one up.

First Ride Review: 2019 Orbea Oiz

After fourteen years and only two generations of the Oiz, it was time for a change. Orbea has done just that with a host of improvements for the new 2019...

When did it all get so good? Chipps’ Issue 120 Editorial

I took a trip back in time recently, revisiting a place I used to ride when I was just starting out. Back then the mountain bike world was a rich,…

GT Fury Downhill Bike Returns!

Today, GT Bicycles has announced a new GT Fury downhill bike. Taking design and suspension cues from the complete revamp that the rest of the trail bike range (the Force...

horton project 40 coil

What Did You Do On Your 40th? Alan Horton Started A Bike Brand

If you had wanted to start your own bike brand just a few years back you might have looked into complex moulds, carbon layup or simply outsourcing manufacture to the...

giant trance 29 launched

Giant Launches All-New Trance 29: A Mid-Travel Trail Smasher?

The Giant Trance 29 is pegged at the type of rider who wants to head out on an epic all day ride, one day, then hit an Enduro stage the...

Fresh Goods Friday 407: The “There’s only 2 of us in the office” Edition!

With the summer holidays now in full swing we’re down to a skeleton crew here at Singletrack Towers, but that’s good news for Andi and Chipps who get to go...

islabikes uk made hardtail steel

Bike Check: Two Custom UK-Made Steel Hardtails From Islabikes

The 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12 was held over the weekend down at the historic Newnham Park venue in Plymouth, and despite the wild weather that rolled in through Sunday morning (and...

mondraker foxy R 29

First Look: Mondraker Foxy 29

We were a little sad when we had to say goodbye to our bright red Mondraker Foxy RR test bike a few weeks ago, but we can barely remember what...

First Ride Review: Merida’s New 2019 One-Twenty Trail Bike

Merida has recently launched a brand new One-Twenty trail bike for 2019. Featuring 120mm of rear suspension travel, a 130mm travel fork, and 29in or 27.5in wheels, the One-Twenty is...

fat bike salsa beargrease

8 Bikes From The 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12

Of the hundreds of competitors that turned up for the 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12, there seemed to be just as many different bikes. Singlespeeds, fat bikes, full suspension enduro bangers, retro...

cotic solarismax calderdale

Review: The latest Cotic SolarisMAX is one of the fastest hardtails we’ve tested

In case you hadn’t noticed, Cotic has been on absolute fire lately. The small Peak District-based company launched a new BFe hardcore hardtail just on a year ago, which then...

Review: The Acros Enduro is a carbon wheelset to survive the apocalypse

Tough, good value, are there any downsides to the Acros Enduro Race Carbon wheelset?

mondraker foxy review

Review: Mondraker Foxy RR: The Long, Low, Slack Do-It-All Bike

Look at any press release for a new bike and chances are that the bike company will shout from the rooftops are that they’ve gone longer, lower and slacker, but...

Review: RDR Ares – 11 Grand For A Race Bike? It Had Better Be Good…

RDR is a relatively small frame builder based in the mountains of Northern Italy. According to the website, RDR consists of the father (Vincenzo), his son (Nicolas) and one employee...

scott genius 900 tuned wil

Long Term Review: Did Wil ruin the Scott Genius 900 Tuned test bike with these 3 changes?

It’s now been six months since we first received the Scott Genius 900 Tuned longterm test bike. In that time, I’ve had plenty of opportunities to put it through its...

merida one-twenty 6000

Merida Has A Brand New One-Twenty Trail Bike For 2019

Merida has a brand new One-Twenty trail bike for 2019, and with a raft of frame and suspension updates, this one promises to be even more the versatile and capable...

Review: The Hoy Bonaly 24 is a great first mountain bike

The Hoy Bonaly range is Hoy Bikes’ answer to a mountain bike. It’s a step up from the usual children’s hybrid bikes – or hybrids with slightly knobbly tyres –...

19 Brands In 2 Days: CrankTank Impact Sun Valley Round Up

A couple of weeks ago Hannah went out to Ketchum, Idaho, to a new media event ‘Impact Sun Valley’. It was a chance for brands to get a bunch of……

Schwalbe

Rubber Round-Up: New Tyres Of Eurobike

‘Are you interested in e-bikes?’. It was hard not to roll your eyes when being asked this again. It’s where the market is at, everyone is trying to cash in,...

stans sentry wheels

This ain’t no HTTP Error – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 404!

The humans are dead. Beep-boop-boop-beep We left their salt-preserved corpses behind in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Beep-beep-ba-beep-boop Their tiny brains could not handle the critical levels of stimulation from all of the...