Antony was a latecomer to the joys of riding off-road, and he’s continued to be a late adopter of many of his favourite things, including full suspension, dropper posts, 29ers, and adult responsibility. At some point he decided to compensate for his lack of natural riding talent by organising maintenance days on his local trails. This led, inadvertently, to writing for Singletrack, after one of his online rants about lazy, spoilt mountain bikers who never fix trails was spotted and reprinted on this website during a particularly slow news week.
Now based just up the road from the magazine in West Yorkshire, he’s expanded his remit to include reviews and features as well as rants. He’s also moved on from filling holes in the woods to campaigning for changes to the UK’s antiquated land access laws, and probing the relationship between mountain biking and the places we ride.
He’s a firm believer in bringing mountain biking to the people, whether that’s through affordable bikes, accessible trails, enabling technology, or supportive networks. He’s also studied sustainable transport, and will happily explain to anyone who’ll listen why the UK is a terrible place for everyday utility cycling, even though it shouldn’t be.
If that all sounds a bit worthy, he’s also happy to share tales of rides gone awry, or delicate bike parts burst asunder by ham-fisted maintenance. Because ultimately, there are enough talented professionals in mountain bike journalism, and it needs more rank amateurs.
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Buy an Orange.
With Hope brakes, hubs , BB, headset, stem, etc etc.
Renthal bars ?
Shimano drivetrain
Mavic rims.
DT spokes.
DT fork (UNLESS IS USE still making one ?)
Selle Italia saddle.
Who for the dropper post, then it’s all sorted, and nothing Septic in sight
BikeYoke Revive dropper (made in Germany)
US kayak manufacturers got hit with a rather hefty tariff in the first round. I think it rather suppressed sales with either 20 or 25% increase.
‘Buy an Orange.’
pfft. a santa cruz would likely still represent better value.
It’s ok… you don’t need to justify your 10k SC to me… tho maybe your partner will be less understanding ???
no need to justify anything cherub. go look at prices and comapre an ally cruz frame to a five. i like fives. i’ve had two of them, but they’re just too expensive now.