Our team of crack-shot reporters (with their own team of internet hamsters) has been touring the pits for a day and are busy uploading stories to our mobile site:
We’d recommend tuning into that one, especially if you’re there on the hill too as the images and stories are all formatted to fit mobile phones (we’ve not seen anyone up the mountain with an iPad yet…)
The sun's out. Check the mobile site for the daily midge report.Rachel Atherton's special fork and a tyre that we've never seen before. It merely bears a Continental logo. Interesting...Almost as big as the GT trucks of oldSome of the Syndicate's choice of tyres and carbon rimsOrange has a classic Clockwork on display, Peaty's 2005 Fort William-winning bike and some brand spanking new stuff too.Jared Graves' carbon Yeti 303. Nice.Peaty's got the bunting out.
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.)
Nice!! RA’s tyres look like a HR copy….. hint of minion in there too
Any reason all the pics are cropped on the right hand side?
Yes, they’re pinched from the singletrack.mobi/fortwilliam site – where they live perfectly happily. I’d check over there for far better coverage…
Apologies if formatting issues spoiled things for you – sorted now