Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

Fresh Goods Friday 241

This week,we\'ve got goodies from Stan\'s, Met, Morvelo, Nukeproof, Bontrager and more!

New Transition Ripcord 24er – with video

Maximum awesome for kids. Want.

2015 XTR Race drivetrain

Flagship 2015 Shimano groupset - worth the cash?

The Art Of Balance – video

Think you\'ve got skillz? Try riding any of this stuff one handed

New Easton Wheels!

More hoopy roundness with spokes an\' that. From the East(on)

YakAttack Auctions Entry To Raise Money For Nepalese Earthquake Victims

Raising money to aid remote victims

SRAM Rail 40 Wheels Rolled Out

New wheels spin up for release

Fresh Goods Friday 240

Fresh with WOW FACTOR from Turner, Suntour, Lauf, and lots more!

Good Times with WTB and Mark Weir

Get your Friday off on the right foot

Borderline/PMBA Enduro Round 2 – video

Sunshine, ace trails, fine riding - what\'s not to love?

OneUp Components 45 teeth XTR sprocket

The bicycling equivalent of \'this one goes up to 11\'?

sunday links

Singletrack Sunday Links

Our pick of the stories we\'ve seen over the past week

Montanus – the COLD VEIN

Fatbikes and snow, and big adventure

Niner Air 9 Carbon Frame

A carbon flavoured hyperspeed trail and XC race hardtail - what\'s the score?

Morvelo Battle Royale 2 – video

Bikebattles ahoy

Fresh Goods Friday 239

What\'s in store this week? in a clickbaity style, you\'ll never guess what\'s in the number 3 slot! It\'s hilarious! etc etc

Scottish style trail access in the Peak – can it work?

Meeting on 25th of April to discuss

Mountain Mayhem allows Yoot for its 18th

16 and 17 year olds can now race too

Cycling investment for YHAs

25 key YHAs to get funding for bike stuff

sunday links

Wish it was Sun[day]?

Glorious natural soundtrack; glorious riding

Bespoked 2015 – Back in Bristol

Here are just a few of the highlights you can see in Bristol this weekend

Fresh Goods Friday 238

Giant, TSG, DT Swiss, Bontrager and elastic-trickery from Haibike!

Shimano 2016 – 11 speed XT

A potential game changer?

Sea Otter 2015: Intense’s new M16 downhill bike

Neooooooowwww. That is all

WTB

Sea Otter 2015: WTB new Riddler Tyre

It\'s a better name than The Penguin

Sea Otter 2015 – Turner Preview

What have Turner got in store for us?

Garmin launches new Virb X and XE cameras

Garmin Virb: new cameras, new shapes

The Lourdes UCI World Cup DH, via the medium of crash

The weekend\'s racing at Lourdes was not without incident

Why Sea Otter? Chipps Reveals All…

Chipps explains why he gets so excited every year

Long Termers: Barney’s Swarf Spline 29

Barney\'s gnardtail monster, built up