International Adventure: New Kids Sur Le Bloc

International Adventure Singletrack Magazine

by Chipps February 7, 2023 3

Last year, Chipps chucked (most of) it all in and moved to a small village in the French mountains. But how do you say ‘Show me to the good trails!’ in French? Words & Photography Chipps It’s been a busy old couple of years. Since January 2021, I got engaged, we sold our draughty old Yorkshire farmhouse, got married, threw away a lot of junk, packed a van and moved to the French Pyrenees. In the last 12 months, I’ve had an extreme version of the situation everyone finds themselves in when they move somewhere new, namely: what day do the bins go out, what day is the hardware shop...

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With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike 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.)

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