With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is 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. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
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Paint job is quite Rocky Mountain Blizzard, isn’t it?
I personally love that paint job. Nice. Can I have a Fuel EX in it please?
A telling amount of non-Bonty stuff on there…
Great now lets see some of the interesting stuff that the rest of us would ride/use
Great good – see something a bit different from the usual A.M. bikes – A UK ridden winning DH bike!
i wonder if they actually are bontrager rims then…
Non oversized bars 🙂
Paint job is fine, it is missing some World Champion bands though.
She should throw a strop until they are added;-)
@jonathan: Rocky uses maple leaves. This is a houndstooth pattern, the same one Trek World Racing has used for a few seasons now.
@1961Bikie: Not on an EX, but yes on a Top Fuel!
@1969pedalpusher: The non-Bonty stuff is there because the team is sponsored by Maxxis, Funn, and SDG. Tracy is sponsored by Hope.
@pjt201: Yes, they are actually Bonty rims
@Blackhound: This is the actual bike she rode in the race. Her new frame absolutely has stripes on it.
FYI, anyone wishing to get a free Tracy poster can follow this link: http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/trek_life/news/article/2318/2010/09/09/one_suspension_platform_two_world_championships/