Issue 144: Zippity Doo-Dah

Zippity Doo-Dah Chipps would like to lead you in praise of the humble cable tie. Words Chipps Photography as credited Every mountain bike guide seems to have two different tool rolls and two different first aid kits. The first kit, marked clearly with ‘Tools’ will contain a shiny multi-tool, a new tube and some tube patches. The first aid kit will have some plasters, a neat bandage and some safety pins. Look deeper into their packs, though, and you’ll find an unlabelled tool roll and alternate first aid kit. The ‘real’ first aid kit will be full of gaffa tape,...

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With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running cycling magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)