As featured in Benji's nostalgic "Homecoming" feature in the current issue of Singletrack, Gisburn Forest now has a great looking future as well as rose-tinted past.
March 2009
Nice Price Series – Course Preview
We spent a nice Spring day being shown the new race course that's being used for the Nice Price Series event on the 16th and 17th of May. Here's some…
Tweak Bikes Innit
The brand name for the product developed by his Shedfire Design company will be known as "tweak bikes" - Richards said this afternoon.
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…
Team CRC Intense Unveils Its New Rides…
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…
British XC: Round 1
The clocks go forward and racing is back, it's round 1 of the British XC series on Sunday April 5 at Sherwood Pines. This will be the first of 5…
Yorkshire Dales Rights Of Way Drop In
Mountain bikers, horse riders, walkers and landowners are being invited to have their say about public rights of way at a meeting organised by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority…
Sunshine and, er, sunshine for Premier Demo series
The Cwm Carn date of the Premier Demo series was sunny, trails were dry(!) and dusty(!) and the bikes were tested on a fun course.
Rob Lee’s Rather Large Ride
Starting today, Rob Lee of the Iron Horse Extreme race team will, as the second part of his 7ds project, attempt to pilot his Iron Horse MK 111 through all…
Fresh Goods
More fresh goodness from Maxxis, Titus, Surly, Halo, Ergon, Topeak, Giro and Neoguard
Friday Lunchtime Viewing
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…
Shed Fire Ragley visits Singletrack
Shed Fire's first bike, the Ragley, pops round for coffee and brings a pirate along too.
Klunkers Trailer Out Now
The best (and only) film about the birth of mountain biking finally has a trailer to give you an idea about what's in it.
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…
Manchester Mountain Bikers take on Chris Hoy
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…
Fresh Goods
Zips.. sticky rubber... latex... cake...
CTC’s View On Helmet Compulsion
Helmets have been in the news. Two stories in particular have received wide coverage this week: The case of Smith v Finch and secondly the death of Natasha Richardson who…
The Ride Journal Issue 2
The second edition of The Ride Journal is finally ready to be unleashed later this week. Here's some exclusive sneak previews of what's inside and details of a launch party...
An Evening with Gary Fisher
Chevin Cycles of Otley arranged an evening showing of Klunkers followed by a talk by Gary Fisher on March 14th '09 at Otley Town Hall. We video'd the event and…
Friday Afternoon Gear
It's Freaky Friday here in the office. Our pal Deano has just popped in with his monster truck tyred Jeff Jones titanium singlespeed, and Chipps has shown his complete disregard…
Fresh Goods
Bits and also bobs from Hydrapak, Park Tools, Wheels MFG, Utopia, Specialized and Oddies.
Golden Nuggett – Chris Akrigg’s New Video
This time Chris is lending thoughts to razzing around on springy bikes.
The New Manitou Dorado
We've just heard that the new Dorado fork from Manitou has landed at their UK Distributors.
Le BOTOXX
Every now and then it pays to be on so many random companies' mailiing lists...
LTD Edition Sunline V1 Bar and Grip Combos
One colour combination will be offered at a time in truly limited numbers and then the next colour will be brought in after the previous colour is sold out.
City College Norwich Summer Enduro Series
For the first time Thetford forest will be holding a 3 race series of mountain bike enduros. Promoted by Thetford MTB Racing and sponsored by City College Norwich, Lifecycle UK…
Bionicon Test Centre Opens in Bristol
Bionicon UK announce a new official UK test centre in partnership with Zero G Cycles in Bristol.
Kona Mash-Up 2009
2008 saw the launch of the much anticipated Kona Mash-Up. They're back for 2009 with 2 events; a summer and winter round, and this time with an improved timing system…
Gisburn Forest Trail Building This Sunday
Gisburn Forest has genuine potential to be a very fine place indeed. Labour is the main thing required at the mo. Volunteer yourself and pop along and help turn this…
Singletrack Trail Guide – South West Yorkshire Dales
We've stuck another route guide in the Singletrack Online Trail Guide. Riding the lesser known (and less visible) bits of the Yorkshire Dales near Settle.
Hundreds Turn Up for Ben and Tom Memorial Ride
Over 200 riders turned up for a memorial ride and 'two minutes of noise' to celebrate the lives of the two young downhillers killed in a car accident earlier this…
GORE BIKE WEAR™ TransWales ’09
The 7 day MTB stage challenge 15th – 22nd August 2009.
Merida Bikes MTB Marathon – 1st Round Only a Few Weeks Away
March is already here and April is hot on it’s heals…and April means that the 1st round of the Merida Bikes MTB Marathon Series is fast approaching
Fresh Goods
So what's arrived at Singletrack Towers this week then? Stuff from Bontrager, Abus, Wheels MFG, Spank, Marmot, Orange and Hawaii...
Podcast Issue 48
Some accompanying video of stuff that’s in the new issue of Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine. There’s some bits of us ripping around on test bike in some lush Welsh woodland……
nPower just doubled our electricity bill
nPower have doubled our office electricity bill because we didn't write a letter to them in September to tell them we were switching suppliers in December, even though at the…
The 3rd “I Bike MCR” Annual Festival 2009
The Third I Bike MCR month long annual grassroots bike festival will take place from Friday 27th March to Friday 24th April 2009.
New DH Course & Race in the Cheviot Hills
The Forestry Commission has linked up with the Northumberland National Park Authority and Northern Downhill – a group of north east bike enthusiasts – to create the first ever downhill…
Turner Bikes – New Colours and Limited Edition Frames
Silverfish UK have announced more colour options as well as the ability to get your new Turner frame in a custom colour option.
Fresh Goods
This week's new stuff from Bontrager, Altura, Lowepro, Outland, Avenir, Raleigh, Crank Bros and Vaude...
Felt Breed
Steve Makin reviews a big lad's bike with shonky brakes, skinny tyres, dodgy bars, a very racy saddle and no gears. Possibly the most fun bike he's ridden in years.
Singletrack Issue 48 Video Trailer
Some accompanying video of stuff that's in the new issue of Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine.
Seb Rogers To Run Alpine Photo Course
Top photo-hound Seb Rogers is running a photo course with a difference this summer - it's going to have some really big scenery...
Marin Dusk til Dawn 2009
2009 will see the 6 Marin Dusk til Dawn promoted by Thetford MTB Racing from its home in Thetford Forest Norfolk, on October 10/11th.
The OutRider 4
The OutRider 4 - a world-class four-hour mountain bike endurance event - at the Outsider Festival on Sunday 28 June 2009
Lynskey Handlebars – Discuss
Titanium. Three piece. 31.8mm clamp. 710mm width. Flipping light. Flipping expensive. Regular sweep. Or crazy mega-sweep (as in the pics).
SRAM XO in Colours…
Our (other) favourite groupset now comes in half of the colours of the rainbow... Red, Green, Gold, Pink and Orange... Ideal for matching or clashing with all the other coloured…
New frame from that Brant Bloke
New Lynskey-built frame announced by Brant Richards, ex On-one and now with Shedfire. He still doesn't have a brand-name though.
The Fort William Mountain Festival’s First Jump School
The festival's first ever jump skills session takes to Forestry Commission Sacotland's dirt jump park near Nevis Range base station, Fort William, from 9am on Saturday 14 March.