To singlespeed or not?

Chipps mulls over whether he still qualifies as a singlespeeder...

Pace Demo & Exhibition Series at Dalby Forest

Come and visit the Pace Demo and Exhibition at the Dalby Forest Visitor centre. On display will be the full range of 2009 Pace frame models as well as 2009…

Mash…

Some bizarre late night musings...

First Gorrick of the New Year this weekend.

Here's the location and timings of the first Gorrick Winter Series Race of 2009

Athertons on TV

Forget that lie in, or work out how your recording box works. There's a half hour programme about the Athertons on Channel4 this Sunday!

Oops!

Singletrack mag in print blunder shocker! No really. We are fallible you know. But this one is a harmless but quite a glaring cock-up and just ads to the darkly…

Wiggle Enduro 6 & Thunder Run 10k 2009: Entry Forms

The weekend of mountain bike and running mayhem is set to return on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26 this year at Catton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, near Tamworth. It will be…

A long way for a pub lunch

Frozen byways and far-away pubs made up Chipps' weekend

Singletrack Mag Goes Up To 8 Issues For 2009

Singletrack Now Published 8 Times Per Year Rather than cutting back or downsizing, Singletrack Magazine is bucking all the current “credit crunch” trends and increasing its productivity for 2009. It…

Registering Your Bike With Immobilise

Create a FREE private and secure portfolio of all your personal property (bikes, ipods, phones, laptops and so on can all be registered). If it is then lost or stolen, use Immobilise…

National Cycle Network to Northampton Waterside

Work began last week to create four kilometres (two and a half miles) of connected walking and cycling routes along Northampton’s River Nene. West Northamptonshire Development Corporation (WNDC) has invested…

2009 Kielder Marathon Season

Beat the chill and work up a sweat by taking part in a mountain bike event in Kielder Water & Forest Park. The Forestry Commission is hosting the first leg…

The Singletrack magazine Nice Price Special (NPS)

Pat and his batman Ag write... Over the weekend of 16th & 17th May 2009 Pro Velo Support brings you two days of unbeatable value mountain bike racing at Cannock…

Parts of Cannock Closed

According to a BBC report, parts of Cannock Chase are closed to walkers and riders because of the spread of a fungal disease among plants there...

Commencal Supreme DH WC Ltd Edition

The Press Release states… “After Gee and Rach’s outstanding double win at last summer’s World Championships in Val di Sole Italy, Commencal set the gears in motion to do produce…

661 Mini Downhill ’09

Mini Downhill is the new fun exciting way to race downhill. It’s aimed at new riders to the sport to give it a go and there is also the Pro-Am…

Business as usual

The forum post frequency is returning to its pre Christmas level now, which is reassuring and I reckon a big indication of a return to normal service is the number…

A (temporary) new arrival

Chipps borrows a dog...

The Slick N Knobbly Cycling Festival, 11th–12th July

Starting Saturday you have the choice of taking part in a 2hr or 4hr enduro in the morning, followed by a short but sharp hill climb in the afternoon and…

Let’s ban photoshoots

No sooner had I suggested doing a photoshoot for today – given the run of unbroken blue skies we’ve had recently – than the clouds close in and it starts…

ATG Training’s Park Tool School

ATG Training’s Park Tool School course is designed for bike fans and those responsible for looking after other people’s cycles.  The two-day course enables participants to gain a good level…

Singletrack Trail Guide – New Mendip Route

As submitted by Stewart Hall… “The Mendip is synonymous with sticky mud and slippery limestone but any criticism you hear of trail conditions belie the variety of riding available. It’s…

The 2009 Singletrack Classic Weekender, July 4-5

Get your diaries and your pencils out ladies and gentlemen… On the weekend of July 4th-5th there will be a brand-new old-style event taking place – the Singletrack Classic Weekender!…

North Downs start for Trail Break 2009 season

First Trail Break events of the season this weekend near Guildford & 2009 calendar announced

Bike Shop Owner Attacked By Sloth

Now the details are a little all over the place at the moment but we have it on good authority that one way or another Jonny Letch from Chelmer Cycles…

Re-introducing The New Singletrack Trail Guide

Shortly before Christmas we put together a list of all the best places to ride in the UK, from trail centres to natural trails. There’s pages and pages of easily digested information…

No Fuss’ 2009 Event Listing

Outdoor event specialists No Fuss Events (Fort William) recently announced their 2009 programme. With nine events across the length and breadth of Scotland. The full programme for 2009: Saturday 7…

Another Tweaked Bike From Intense – The New Uzzis

The new Intense* Uzzi in AM and FR guises. Not a whole lotta details at the mo apart from the new Uzzi having two travel-n-geometry options and a 1.5in headtube…

Intense Launch The Spider 2

“Building on the success of the Tracer VP, Intense Cycles is excited to launch their second new model featuring the next generation VPP suspension design. The new Spider 2 will…

We’re back?

A quick rundown of what happened: Just before Christmas the site was hacked, and most of it deleted. Due to various security implications we couldn’t put the old site back…