Spanish company, Axxis reckons it might have invented the maintenance-free bike. Oh, but brake pads?
Chipps
With 25 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps holds the record for 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.
Chipps stepped down as Editor in April 2026 after 25 years at the helm. He's now wondering what to do next, while riding his bike in the French Pyrenees, where he also runs some gites.
North American Handbuilt Show: 2. The fat bikes cometh.
NAHBS was wall to wall custom fat bikes this year. This Retrotec was voted 'best mountain bike' by the judges. Judge for yourself within
North American Hand Built Show 1: Fat Chance Returns
Studio shots of the new Fat Chance bikes (as well as classic old ones too) at the NAHBS show just gone
Volunteer for Vallelujah (and TweedLove)
The Tweedlove folks are after some volunteers for Vallelujah and TweedLove (and the EWS). Come and help out and get kudos and free stuff!
Battle On The Beach releases more spaces
Due to finding some more MOD land to race on, the organisers are releasing a limited number of extra spots for this sold out event
Santa Cruz Bronson C
Descent mapping, skill enhancing: here are our thoughts on the Santa Cruz enduro trail slaya
Intense Tracer 275 Alloy
Amid the flurry of carbon this and that launched this year, the Intense Tracer 275 Alloy almost snuck past unnoticed. How does it measure up?
The Bike Place Show – Pt1
Just some of the goodies on show from The Bike Place: GT, ESI, Kali, Charge
Fabric’s new mega-light ALM saddle. With added Airbus!
The most worthy successor to the iconic carbon Flite ever?
UPDATED: Fat Chance Cycles reaches its $116,000 Kickstarter goal.
The iconic man and brand are back, and pre-selling new bikes
CoreBike2015 Part2 – Hope Technology
Cranks, red stuff and the return of the ten speed integrated cassette from Hope
CoreBike2015 Part1
A quick look at what was on offer at the Core Bike Show today from Schwalbe, Ibis, WTB, MRP
Epic Cymru – First Batch of Entries Sold Out!
More entries available in early February for the August multi-stage race. And Weir is coming!
Kali Protectives Aazis
Chipps was after some solid light weight knee pads, do Kali Protectives Aazis tick all the boxes?
Salsa Announces Bucksaw Carbon
One of the world's most bonkers bikes gets even more bonkerser. A full suspension fat bike - in carbon!
Happy Hallowe’en. Argh! Zombies!
Wishing you the best for the scary weekend with this Zombie video from Specialized UK and Manon Carpenter and Kayley Ashworth on the spooky BMX
Charging Rapha
A video from last weekend's Rapha Supercross, seen through the eyes of team Charge Bikes
Seatpost Stuck? You need The Seatpost Man!
Enterprising engineer has set up with all the tools and knowhow to make the niche business of stuck-seatpost removal a reality
Tree felling work to begin at Glentress this winter.
Buzzard's Nest car park will also be closed until Christmas.
A slightly different world
It’s the Three Peaks race this weekend. 650 cyclocrossers will rampage over the higher, pointier bits of the Yorkshire Dales. Despite it being the 52nd running of the event, it still manages to maintain a village fete-feel to it. From the virtually unintelligible announcer on…
Interbike 2014: Kryptonite’s Messenger Collection
Kryptonite updates its urban range with the help of its bike messenger customers
Interbike 2014: Intense Cycles Welcomes (back) Shaun Palmer
The Palm is back on Intense - this time to talent-spot and nurture the next generation
Palm Trees, baggy shorts and the end of summer
Chipps reflects on the bizarre location of Interbike, the end of show season and the start of autumn
Interbike 2014: Josh Bryceland’s Santa Cruz V10 on show.
Flown in from the World Champs in Norway was Rat Boy's speed machine
Interbike2014: Outdoor Demo Part 1
The first instalment of the things we saw out in the Nevada desert
Eurobike 2014: SRAM XX1 Power Meter Cranks * UPDATED
SRAM Releases Power Meter cranks in the 'How much?' price category
Enduro World Series Returns to Peebles in 2015
Plus a round in Co. Wicklow, Ireland. We have the 2015 EWS dates here
This Is Peaty: Season 3, Episode 4
In which we get to see the secret new 27.5in Santa Cruz V10 in action - and a radical small-wheel machine too
Stan’s NoTubes Fat Bike Rims and Carbon Valors
Carbon Valor rims in production, fat bike Hugo rims and Three-Peaks-worthy tubeless too?
Making the most of the summer
The inbuilt thing about being British is that we’re always suspicious of good weather. Especially the more north or west you seem to be. It’s as if we’re expecting a week of good weather to always be followed by two weeks of bad, rather than…
