Simandi

Issue 48 is all but there at the printers now (OK, so about a dozen pages will have to go tomorrow morning – sorry Warners!)

Lots of great stuff in this one, including some cracking stories of how we all started mountain biking, some properly epic riding and a new series – ‘One Ton Weekends’ where we challenge people to have the most mountain biking fun for a oner – £100. Whether it’s a super budget trip for ten people, or an indulgent skills session with a pro rider’ – we’ve already got a string of them to shoot in the next couple of months, but suggestions are always welcome.

But today, it’s our mate Stanny’s birthday, so we’re off to the pub… And that’s another 12 hour day already… We’re off. C’mon Sim!

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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