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.
Video: Aysen Rally, Patagonia
Patagonia really is a pretty awesome place. Who knew?
Video: Singletrack’s 15 year Interview
15 questions to celebrate our 15 years in publishing - set by our forum users. No really!
Fresh Goods Friday 286
Friday\'s fecund festival of fantastically fabulous freshness, freighted forthwith to your phone. Or - er - PC
Throwback: Tandemania
A well deserved airing of this classic tale from issue 35 There\'s more to this story But it\'s a member-only story Join us to unlock it and more Singletrack magazine…
Video – Want to corner like Canyon’s Fabien Barel?
Corner like Fabien! Or just watch, and feel inadequate
Video: The 2016 NukeProof Development Team
Young Irish up\'n\'comers can ride a bit
It Never Rains, But It Pours – Vallelujah 2016
Kona\'s Thomas Mitchell takes us through the Tweed Valley\'s 2016 Vallelujah
EWS 2016 Chile report – Rude and Ravanel on top
Fun and games in Chile over the weekend at the opening round of the Enduro World Series
Grouptest Addendum: Helmets
We couldn\'t fit all the helmets we tested in the big grouptest in issue 104 but we can fit them all here.
Review: Ituo Wiz20
Mid-range all-in-one brightness from Ituo
Fresh Goods Friday 283
A veritable smorgasbord of goodness, lavishly festooned all over your computer like a huge, veiny, pulsating sack of win
Video: SRAM’s eulogy to the front mech
SRAM bids farewell to a beloved piece of frame-furniture
Video: Airdrop’s Clayspades
Sheffield bike brand release edit of Edit
Video: BMC and Teton Gravity Research visit Switzerland
Fun and games in Switzerland with the TGR boys
Review: Endura MT500 Burner Ratchet Shorts
Rugged-as-all-get-out shorts from Endura, ridden and rated
Review: Specialized Enduro Comp Shorts
Does Ant like the cut of the Enduro Comp\'s jib?
Ibis Mojo HD3 goes Boost and Plus
New derriere for Ibis\' Shredsled
Video: Triple Crown of Slopestyle – Crankworx 2016
Redbull\'s tasty video - the best that Rotorua, NZ has to offer
Long Termer: Santa Cruz Hightower – Part 1
In the first of his Long Termer reviews, Barney takes the Hightower through some Northern glop
Video: Rotorua Crankworx – Brett Rheeder
Crazy first-person vid of Rheeder\'s Crankworx slopestyle finals in New Zealand
Fresh Goods Friday 282
New and furthermore new newness that\'s arrived fresh and dew-plucked into the office this week! Get amongst it
Singletrackmag reaches 500,000 Facebook likes
Our Facebook page is quite popular, it seems
Video: Bernard Kerr: Queenstown Living 2.0
Pivot\'s Bernard Kerr, Down Under
PMBA releases more entries for fun women and men at Gisburn
PMBA looks to attract fresh blood with more places at Gisburn event
Interview: Anka Martin
We catch up with the Juliana and SRAM-sponsored adventure and enduro racer (and Trans Provence winner)
Fresh Goods Friday 281
What\'s that? A huge pile of the new stuff? Don\'t mind if I do
Fox Racing launches shiny new 2016 DH-FLEXAIR collection
Fox dials the brightness up a level with their new DH gear
Video: Delamere Ain’t Dead
Josh Gleave finds some hills in Cheshire, and lets rip
Fresh Goods Friday 280
All the sauce this week from the dripping hot office Tamales. New bike gear, red hot, just for you
SRAM launches new ROAM 60 wheels and 900 hubs
New hubs and wide carbon hoops from SRAM