Whoop! Well it was all a bit confusing, with the usual courier notification sequence of ‘we’re coming’, ‘no we’re not’, ‘ding-dong SURPRISE! We’re here!’, but we’re delighted that the latest issue of Singletrack Magazine has now landed at the office and is landing on doormats all over the world.
If you’ve got your copy, we’d love to see how you read yours – tag us on Instagram. What with all this weather (looks outside to check which version of it we’re getting this moment in the day…) please give the postie the benefit of your patience. If you’re a member and your copy hasn’t arrived by Monday 15th February, please drop us an email and we’ll get you sorted.
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Or, just hop on over here, buy this one copy to test the waters, and hopefully you’ll be inspired to want to read us again in the future.
Issue 135 Cover – Pete Scullion
The master of the brooding sky and awesome light, Pete Scullion, brings us this issue’s cover. With the rider perfectly timed and positioned in front of the sun – or is it a passing comet on a far flung otherworld where two suns offer perpetual daylight for the lucky mountain biking lifeforms?
Classic Ride – Reeth
The original idea for this Classic Ride was to try to find something as close as possible to Barnard Castle, for reasons we can’t quite remember. Alas, things didn’t quite work out that way, so instead Barney went to Reeth. Which is quite near to Barnard Castle. Nearer than London, anyway.
Pete’s Pros – Jamie Edmondson
Getting dropped from the Seagrave’s set up doesn’t seem to have done Jamie any harm, having bagged an U21 EWS and an Elite DH podium this year. What will 2021 and beyond hold for this rising star?
Kit Essentials – Pumps
You need a pump. In fact, you probably want two – a big one for home and a little one for on the trail. Check out the pumps that keep us rolling and stop us feeling flat.
The Seatpost Guy
Barney goes to visit The Seatpost Guy. If you’ve forgotten to lube your seatpost, he’s the guy you need – through some sort of sorcery he can remove your seatpost without damaging your frame. Barney takes various truth serums and spells with him on his quest to find out the secret that’s more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
Tour de Ben Nevis
Sanny has good reasons not to go to the top of Ben Nevis, but going round it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea for a summer’s day ride.
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
The source of our cover image, and with enough glorious shots to adorn a whole year of magazine covers, Pete reflects on a route that kept defying him and weighs up whether it’s better to give up when you’re ahead, returning again (and again) another day.
New Year, New Bike?
We test three bikes from Ibis, Orange and Revel which are newly available on our shores. All in the ‘ride up and down’ category. All in the ‘more than a little bit but less than a lot of travel’ category. How do you choose when bikes are this good?
New Zealand Trucking
How do you get into the middle of nowhere, before heading off to the edge of nowhere on your bike? One option looks like you trade off effort and replace it with terror. Tony Hutcheson and Jamie Nicoll go exploring, New Zealand style.
Riding the Iron Curtain
With travel further afield off the menu, Markus Stitz takes a trip back to his childhood home of East Germany, for what turns out to be a thought provoking tour of this former borderland.
Riding Solo
After a year when group rides have been largely off the cards, Chipps explores the reasons why some people ride alone year in year out. Is it out of logistical need, mental necessity, or perhaps no one else shares their idea of ‘a good ride’?
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Mine arrived this morning. I have to say, that cover looks even better in the paper (flesh doesn’t sound right).
I was a bit late renewing my sub, only did it last week. Will I be getting a copy of this one?
Hi @jordan I suspect you missed the posting list, but if you email subs@singletrackworld.com we can check before you get yourself a discounted copy from the shop.
Cheers Hannah!
Mines not arrived yet but wait patiently.
Those photos of Pete’s are truly stunning.
Thank goodness. I bought another well known UK Mountain Biking magazine this week because they had a free buff with a sheep printed on it. The buff’s good for nostalgia, the publication… well, let’s just say it’s not STW.
Mine will arrive once the PDF Issues page updates…
aye nothing on pdf page
Nowt yet…
Pdf is up now folks! Poor Mark – so far on his day off he has uploaded the mag to the site, built a bike for a feature, and taken bike boxes to the office. Hopefully tomorrow involves more drums and less work!
When trying to download I’m getting a corrupted / damaged file message.
Mine must be “in the post”, like the cheque always is, There were 28 mountain bikes in the group meet on Saturday ( Isle of Mann)
My first copy of singletrack ever and it’s great. Wish I signed up and ditched the other mags along time ago
When will the iBooks version be available?
Not got mine yet, but it normally takes a while to get to sunny Andalusia
“Barney takes various truth serums and spells with him on his quest to find out the secret that’s more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.”
Is it Coke?
@rickon – no.
🙂
@kjlmtber you should be able to get it now, I just had to learn some stuff to put it up, sorry for the delay!
@Jim_Trailrider I think the subs team have been in touch and you should be sorted now!
@Hannah, many thanks for the direct messaging to help sort the issue. Now have #135 in my Adobe cloud
Evening all. The pocketmag app is asking me to pay – anyone else having the same problem? It’s worked well in the past and I can still see previous issues in my library.
Same here Simonr, waiting to see if it sorts itself out
iPad folks, I’m looking into it! Thought it had been sorted yesterday but it seems not and I’m trying to find out why the app won’t recognise you. Will put an update here once I hear back from the app people. Sorry for the delay in accessing all the goodness!
Thanks Hannah
Considering I am still missing issue 134 even after having been in contact with the subs support jan 14th I am not going to get my hopes up before 6-8 weeks from now. :/
Maybe magazines are hard to get into the EU now?