It’s that time again: time to check you’ve updated your address if you’ve moved house, or renew your payment details if you’ve changed banks, or to join us to become part of the Singletrack World community of independently minded mountain bikers!
This issue will be out in early December… dare we mention that you might like to buy Singletrack for someone else? We’ve got a range of gift memberships, including our Sub-in-a-Box, so be sure to check out all your options. As ever, this issue includes a FREE CALENDAR, which you will of course be needing to plan all of next year’s adventures – of which we hope you will have many.
Let’s take a peek inside and see what could be coming your way…
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Editorial: Choosing Your Time
Chipps wonders what defines – or what will define – the glory days of mountain biking.
UK Adventure: In Search of Kelpies
Pete Scullion goes to the Isle of Skye in search of the mythical Kelpie. Will it lure him off the mountains and into the water?
Classic Ride: Land’s End to Lizard
Sam Jones joins up the missing links to bring us a route you can ride over a weekend away along the tip of the Cornish coast.
UK Adventure: The Return of The Great British Holiday
It’s no Club 18-30 in Benidorm, but Rich Rothwell and friends still find fun and time out in a long lap of Edinburgh.
Kit Essentials – Tyres for the Trail
Andi reviews a selection of rubber to keep you the right way down on the trail, whatever your conditions.
Interview: Josh Bryceland
Chipps finds out what sort of life Josh Bryceland is building for himself after leaving Downhill racing behind him.
Bike Test – Gravel Bikes
Three gravel bikes from Focus, Orange and Ragley, tested out by mountain bikers. What’s all the fuss about?
MTB Culture: Klunker Detectives
Chipps traces the tangled history of a bike purchase that turned out to be a bit different to expectations.
MTB Culture: The Fifth Season
Markus Stitz does his best to persuade us that a coating of snow is the perfect ingredient to add adventure to your ride.
We also have another ‘Catch My Drift’ from Barney Marsh, as he enlightens you of the origins of another word from our mountain bike lexicon; another great recipe from Charlie in the Singletrack Kitchen; and the Editor’s Choice Awards, where the Singletrack Staff pick the very best of the products and places from their riding year, and give them their personal seal of approval.
Issue 140 Cover
As ever, it’s all wrapped up with a stunning cover. This issue, the image is by James Vincent: a moody late night moon shot.
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