Issue 156 – Beyond Benidorm

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WORDS & PHOTOGRAPHY CHIPPS One blazing sun, two very different worlds on Spain’s Costa Blanca. As I look around at the hotel breakfast buffet, there are two distinctly different groups here. One group looking more serious than they should for people on holiday, mostly older and queuing for the bacon and ‘eggs your way’ counter. They all seem to have a slightly worried, unsatisfied look to them and I’m not sure why – they’re on…

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 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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  • radbikebro
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    This was quite a good article despite the ‘holier than thou’ approach. Be cool to have more like this for those of us that go on more “you can do what you want on Tuesday” holidays than full blown biking holidays.

    chipps
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    Hey, sorry about the attitude, @radbikebro but it was such a marked contrast between the groups. 🙂 I’ll keep my eye open for more fun away days though – what would you be interested in? Similar international stuff? (Rad trails near Disneyland Paris for example) or something more closer to home (Radness just outside of CentreParcs?). Suggestions welcome as always to editorial@ etc

    radbikebro
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    I get the contrast, it just felt a bit too judgy.

    Funny you mention the CentreParcs – I did a week at Longleat with the extended family just because I knew I’d be able to ride WindHill Bike Park when I got a chance to get out on my bike. But yeah, exactly like that – common holiday destinations that have surprisingly good riding around the area.

    roger_mellie
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    I thought this feature, along with Pete’s Peaks, were interestingly different to the norm. Must be bastard hard coming up with magazine content.

    Plus, the terrible trio’s enduro bikepacking adventure was cracking 🙂

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