Core Bike Rocks

Actually I got back last night, but then I’ve been in meetings all today about the Singletrack Classic Weekender – I reckon it’s going to be a smashing event… Proper low-key, fun mountain bike racing… Just wait until you hear about Classic Speed Killer Trials – I reckon we’re on to a winner there… 🙂

Anyway, the Core Show, held near Silverstone, brought together a lot of the mid-sized distributors in a ‘group-hug’ effort to get dealers and the press to come and see them all. And it worked – with loads of press and bike shop staff there. More about it when I get my card-reader back off Ben… Tomorrow then.

Mr. Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's ex-Editor At Large

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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