The Issue 93 Cover Shot – what do you reckon?
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The Issue 93 Cover Shot – what do you reckon?

October 24, 2014

Here’s the cover shot from Issue 93 that’s currently dividing office opinion. In the style of Mitchell and Webb we’re asking: what do you reckon?

Nash Masson, Sol Mountain Lodge, Revelstoke, BC

“It’s always been on my list to try and capture a mountain biking image with lightning in it, but the shot had remained elusive and sketchy at best. A trip to Sol Mountain Lodge, B.C. finally presented that opportunity while we were spending a couple days up there riding some of the newly developed alpine trails they’ve been building over the past few years. After a full day of riding and shooting, a big storm was building around dusk and still a way off in the distance. We set out with tripod and lights and started snapping off shots as the light show and storm grew closer. Once I saw this image with Nash’s bright colours streaked across the frame and multiple lightning strikes in the background, I was more than stoked with how the evening turned out.”

Ryan Creary.

For more on what’s in issue 93, click here.

59 thoughts on “The Issue 93 Cover Shot – what do you reckon?”

  2. I’m super duper stoked by it — no honestly its eye catching but please lose the teenage yankee dude/stoked/rad nonsense

  6. But kcal, ….And Then There Were Three was the beginning of the rot.

    I’m in 3 reckons about the photo. 1: I like it, 2: it would make a great wallpaper, 3: but there’s no bike, 4: is it Singletrack?

  7. Brilliant
    Look forward to seeing it on the clean subscription cover (without all the messy text all over it).
    It makes the subscription copy feel like a quality product.
    More like this please.

  8. It’s stunning. No bike in it? Apart from the bloke on the bike! What do you want, a bike six inches from your nose with a sign saying ‘Here’s the bike’ hung on it?
    Well done Singletrack for having big enough ones to think beyond the ordinary

  10. It’s alright, but would be nice to see the bike too and not some fuzzy out of focus shot of the bike. Much better than the stereotypical bike being pointed down some dusty trail.

  13. What a brilliant and creative approach to this time of year. I love it and wish I had thought to take something like it. More of the same please.

  16. i suspect the argument from the office doubters is that it won’t jump off the shelf in smiths shouting ‘mountain bike’ like your competitor mags…”sales/profit” etc

    but isn’t that we why we read singletrack – because it’s not like all the other mags…?

    i say ‘go for it’ – because it’s a great shot and it’s different

    besides, i’m sure jorji will half cover it in some splendid typographic attractors for the non-subscriber edition to appease the doubters

  18. It would be a brave move as a cover shot. I can ‘see’ the bike and more obviously the rider but, as has been demonstrated above by a number of posters who are presumably already familiar with the mag, the fact that it is a bike isn’t exactly ‘in your face’. With the headline title being ‘Singletrack’ and a cover shot that doen’t include an actual MTB complete with body english rider, it would be brave. Do it, Singletrack is different.

  20. Great – images like this that are a bit different from the usual are one of the things that makes Singletrack stand out from the crowd. More like this please!

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