Filling a substantial portion of the Scott Sports booth, Syncros debuted a smattering of new products at Eurobike 2018, including some new handlebars, a yet-to-be-released convertible floor pump, and some…
July 2018
19 Hot Products From Eurobike 2018
After three days of non-stop action, the Singletrack Eurobike Dream Team has finally returned to the motherland! It’s been an absolutely mental few days of running around the 12 huge…
Magura Celebrates 125 Years With LTD Edition MT1893 Disc Brake, Plus More From Eurobike
Magura really pushed the boat out for Eurobike 2018, unveiling not one or two new brakes, but seven new or updated disc brake solutions of all price points, oh and…
You Won’t Know Wolfpack Tires Or Wolfgang Arenz Yet, But You’ve Probably Already Ridden His Inventions
We’re fairly certain you won’t have heard of Wolfpack Tires, or Wolfgang Arenz the man behind the brand, but you will most certainly know some of the products he helped…
The new Funn UpDown dropper post is ‘self-healing’ and it even fixes itself on the trail
Funn has had its Updown dropper post available for a couple of years now, but it has very recently introduced a brand new version that features internal cable routing and…
Get a really good look at the stunning DT Swiss F 535 One fork
Last week we brought you a news story on a long-awaited suspension fork from DT Swiss called the F 535 One. Coming into the suspension lineup as the biggest and…
Bikes, Beers and Dust: Northern Grip 2018
Northern Grip bills itself as a mountain bike festival: a mix of social rides, bike demos and all the fun and distractions you’d expect to find at a decent sized…
Spotted! A New Suspension Platform Like We Have Never Seen Before
After all the endless sights of Eurobike, it was on the train back to our apartment that we spotted what is one of the most interesting things we’ve seen. We’ve…
Video: Check out the brand new 2019 Lapierre Zesty & Spicy
Just yesterday we brought you the news on the brand new 2019 Lapierre Zesty and Spicy models, which have been shown off for the first time at Eurobike. It’s actually a…
Commencal Announces The “Arrogant, Impulsive, Manipulative” Clash
After 3 days of Eurobike fun its hard to believe that there are bike brands not represented at the Messe (yeah, we speak German now), but plenty do choose not…
Mega Gallery: 29 Top Bikes Of Eurobike 2018. How Many Of Them Will Be e-Bikes?
For 3 days we have haunted the halls of Eurobike, powered by nothing more than strong coffee and salty pretzels. Actually, that’s a complete fabrication of the truth. Eurobike 2018…
This 2019 Scott Genius has a very clever lever on the rear shock
Looking similar to the current Fox Nude shock on the 2018 Scott Genius, the new version now has a small external lever on the front of the air can that's…
Lone Bicycles Beretta Sticks A Middle Finger Up At Standards
Lone Bicycles is a new French mountain bike brand owned and operated by the same people behind HXR, those clever chaps who invented the Easy Shift system. The Beretta is…
Oakley Teams Up With Minnaar To Create DRT 5 Helmet With “Eyewear Landing Area”
Oakley’s first ever mountain bike helmet has been unveiled and with the help of world-class downhill racer, Greg Minnaar, the DRT 5 is as stylish as it is safe and…
RST: Radio Controlled Dropper And Beefed Up Forks
We tested the RST Rogue 27.5in fork in Issue 110 of Singletrack magazine, where it was the hands down winner when it came to value for money. While there was…
Prototype Orange Strange Crush-E. The First Hardcore e-MTB Designed For The UK?
The Orange Crush 29 isn’t the only new hardcore hardtail from the British bike maker at Eurobike, they also have this prototype Crush-E on display too. If you hadn’t already…
Eurobike 2018: New Shimano & Giro shoes, ropey spokes, and a heavier Orange
Swedish brand Thule is expanding its range of hydration backpacks for mountain biking, and chose Eurobike to debut its new Rail series. Available in 8L, 12L and a 12L Pro…
Orange Crush 29er Spotted At Eurobike
The Orange Crush is the bruiser in Orange’s hardcore hardtail line up, it’s also the only alloy framed hardtail that the British brand has in its range (if you don’t…
Five Reasons We Might Want To Leave Europe After All: Spotted at Eurobike
We’ve had our heads buried in the world of bikes, and we’ve surfaced at the end of the today to discover that British politics is moving even faster than a…
Specialized Pumps Up The Epic With The New 2019 Epic EVO
Specialized overhauled the Epic lineup around this time last year, dropping the horst link FSR pivot and a whole load of weight in the process. A new, refined Brain shock…
Lapierre Launches All New 2019 Zesty, Spicy (and a not-an-e-bike)
The flagship Lapierre models of the Zesty and Spicy have been completely redesigned for 2019, making these some of the few actual new mountain bikes at Eurobike that don’t feature…
Bionicon is back and so is its cool geometry adjustment button
We don’t know what it is, but this year’s Eurobike seems to be full of bikes that have geometry adjustment, so it’s good to see that one of the original…
Is This The Goldilocks Casing? Maxxis Launches EXO+
Maxxis has announced a brand new casing option, which we think is going to get a lot of you quite excited. It’s called EXO+ and it’s designed to close the…
Schwalbe’s new Eddy Current is more aggro than a Magic Mary
Schwalbe has a new tyre on show at Eurobike, and it’s called the Eddy Current (we’re not sure how Melbourne band, Eddy Current Suppression Ring feels about the name of…
A solution to pedal rash, or just more Eurotrash?
It’s my first ever Eurobike and although I was told there would be some weirdness on display I hadn’t realised it was going to be so hard to identify the…
Swedish Huldr A1 Converts From Gearbox DH Bike To 920w e-Beast
We can’t believe that it was only yesterday that we discovered the Kinetic Works Quintessenz, a bike that can easily have it’s BB linkage plates swapped so that either a…
Behold! Limited Edition Gold Leaf Pedroni Lupo Carbon Gara
Pedroni is an Italian bike brand that still manufactures all of its carbon and alloy frames in Italy. Being located right in the heart of Italy’s ‘motor city’, you know…
Ghost Bikes: All Coiled For Action
Ghost is a brand we haven’t seen too much of in recent years – although we’re sure you’re all going to come out the woodwork in the comment section and…
The Hope PrePeaks. The non-competitive, grand day out in the Yorkshire Dales
In association with Hope Technology Hope Technology’s PrePeaks is a non-competitive event that offers a challenging loop of the Yorkshire Dales this August. To find out more, we sent Chipps…
13 Speed Chainless Drivetrain – When engineers think differently
We’ve surely all thought that there must be a better way to operate gears than having a dingley dangly rear derailleur hanging off the back of our bikes and waiting…
Spotted: Clothing brand Rocday bring fashion to the trails
Earthy tones, modern designs and high-end fabrics spotted at Eurobike 2018 from Polish clothing brand Rocday. Hiding outside in a very modest stand, I was drawn in by the jersey…
This Sterling Silver Orange Five XTR Is Stunning!
Orange’s stand at Eurobike is full of new colour options for the coming year, but there was 1 bike in particular that grabbed our attention. Can you really say ‘No’…
Spotted at Eurobike! Fox Live Valve electronic suspension!
These days at Eurobike, journos often get a head start on what’s going to be new at the exhibition. We start getting emails months beforehand, with a head’s up of…
Alutech Bikes Fanes 170mm Travel, NFC Equipped, Enduro Bike Plus More
If you’re a fan of direct sales brands there’s already a good chance that you’ve heard of Alutech, they’ve been gaining popularity over the years due to the rise in…
First Ride: Renthal replaces the Fatbar Carbon with… the Fatbar Carbon 2
Iconic UK moto and mountain bike brand, Renthal, has got a brand new Fatbar Carbon. And it’s called…err…the Fatbar Carbon V2. Joining the recently released alloy Fatbar 2, the carbon…
Surly’s Lowside doesn’t have suspension, carbon fibre or 13 gears, but that’s why we love it
Who the heck needs 13-speed when you’ve got a fully rigid singlespeed klunker with 26×3.0in tyres? That’s how we feel about Surly’s Lowside – a bike that is basically the…
Exclusive First Look: Ritchey Brings Back The Ultra!
Some 30 years after the original, Ritchey is bringing back the Ultra! Though this one is a little different from the last one… Although Ritchey is technically releasing this bike…
This Plastic 3D Printed Frame Costs Just 7,999 Euros!
3D printed frames are nothing new we’ve seen them work and we’ve seen them fail, and generally its the plastic flavored 3D printed frames that have a less than stellar…
Spotted: From Walmart To The Skate Park
What the? Wandering around Eurobike, there was no way this wasn’t going to catch your eye. I mean, look at it. Is it amazing, or incredibly ugly? And then, what…
3 Brands Taking On The Flat Pedal Market: Northwave, Ion and Vaude
Despite the rise in popularity of clip-in pedals, especially of the platform variety, we’ve got a new entrant into the flat pedal market this Eurobike, plus a bunch of new…
The Kinetic Works Quintessenz Could Be The Last Frame You Ever Buy
What was the reason for getting rid of your last frame? Was it too short or too steep? Did it have the wrong wheel size? Did you want to switch…
Brose: e-Bike Motors Get Smaller And Quieter
Brose, one of the lesser known brand names in the e-Bike motor market, has today launched its next generation of e-Bike motors. The brand doesn’t plaster its name all over…
First Ride Impressions Of GT’s New Force and Sensor
Chipps reports back after a couple of days of riding on GT’s newly launched trail bikes. Over the course of a couple of days I had a chance to ride…
Trickstuff Maxima Brakes Spotted At Eurobike
Back in issue 115 of Singletrack Magazine we tested the Trickstuff Direttissima, and we were simply blown away by the amount of power the German brakes had on tap, but…
Hayes has a new brake called the Dominion A4, and it looks superb
It’s been a little over 20 years since Hayes entered the disc brake market with the original HFX-Mag. Though there were other brands offering disc brakes at the time, it…
Five Ten Goes Retrotastic
Looks like our Amanda might have been right with her predictions, as sticky shoe makers Five Ten has brought out some retrotastic casual shoes which bring together ’90s retro with…
More Kicks For Kids – 3 Kona Bikes For Your Offspring
We’d already seen the bikes for big kids at Sea Otter: a carbon Process 153, a Big Honzo 27.5+ hardtail, and a nice Honzo ST in a special 30th birthday…
Take that SRAM & Shimano – Rotor goes 1×13 with HUGE 10-52t cassette!
Rotor Components has shown off a brand new 1×13 drivetrain, which includes an enormous 10-52t cassette! SRAM already has its 12-speed Eagle groupsets with XX1, X01, GX and NX, which…
Eurobike 2018 LIVE Archive: Watch all our broadcasts from the world’s largest bike show
Hannah, Amanda, Wil and Andi comprise this year’s Eurobike team out in Germany. They are writing, shooting, tweeting, ‘gramming all week. Check this page for all the latest live broadcasts…
Computer says yes? Lezyne has a huge new Mega GPS that boasts offline navigation and longer battery life
Lezyne has introduced two new GPS units today, both of which belong to the ‘Mega’ family and come dripping with ‘mega’ features. The two GPS units are named the Mega…