The Fort William round of the 4XProTour was all action!
Chipps
With nearly 25 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 32 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.)
Fort William – the story so far
A quick catch up from the first day of practice at the Fort William World Cup DH
It’s the weekend
And here's a couple of things to do as we head to a nice weekend: there's Spins, Space, Strength and Sportives
Fox Racing Shox’ new electronic shocks
Fox has gone 'lectric. Instant fork and shock lock and unlock
British Regional XC Champs this weekend
Want to find out how you stack up in your region? Get out and race this weekend
Sea Otter 2012: Calfee Carbon Craziness
A look at some of the wilder bikes from Calfee Design's carbon shed.
Sea Otter 2012: Specialized’s Concepts
A look at what Specialized does with a spare afternoon and a couple of crayons.
Sea Otter 2012: New Reynolds Wheels and a Haro 29er
Carbon 29er and a whole family of new Reynolds carbon wheels.
2012 Howies Dyfi Enduro Report. Now with video!
The sun shone, the riders rode and the Jedis battled in the woods. Eh?
Yeti SB-95 29er visits Singletrack Towers
Pete the Road Warrior shows us the new big wheeled bouncy bike from Cali
Sea Otter 2012: KS Kind Shock uppy downy posts.
Internal cable version and lower collar versions coming out soon.
Sea Otter 2012: Prototype Nukeproof Rook
Chipps checks out a bike for flips and whips, with hydraulic gyro, six speed block and much sturdyness
Sea Otter 2012: Cyclocross and some road… that kind of thing.
A roundup of the cyclocross and road biking oddities spotted, including Shimano/Formula road discs.
Sea Otter: Prototype Avid brake spotted.
It's about time XX got a refresh, could this be the first step? And what's next? 11speed?
Sea Otter 2012: John Cowan’s new bike company
Full carbon jump bikes, made in the USA, mostly by the man himself.
Sea Otter 2012: More Random Sightings
This lot wouldn't fit anywhere else, but they're all worth a look.
Sea Otter 2012: SRAM, Rockshox, Avid 2013
The SRAM 2013 presentation included lots of karaoke by the look of things and a handful of new things too.
Sea Otter 2012: X-Fusion forks, shocks and posts
A new 34mm platform, a new 29er fork and plenty more from X-Fusion
Sea Otter 2012: Thursday Random Stuff
It’s the first day of the Sea Otter and we’ve been taking in the whole show, as well as testing out some new Mavic 29er wheels.
Sea Otter 2012: Easton’s New 35mm ‘standard’
Yep, bigger is better. And stronger and lighter too apparently
New Shimano Zee 2012 downhill groupset
An entry-level/privateer groupset for downhill racing and other gravity stuff
Fox 2013 – New 34 fork is just the start
It's complicated, so we're going to keep it simple - for the moment...
UK Solo 24 and 12 Hour Champs Report
Joolze Dymond reports on those bonkers folks who ride and ride...
Fresh Goods Friday 162
It's Friday and it's time for Fresh Goods, where the whole bicycle world tunes in to look at shiny bits
Midweek Movies
A delicious serving of digital bike delight, brought to you this week by Matt and Chipps
Willow Rockwell Retires From Racing
Willow was planning to return to full racing after having a child, but has decided that retiring is the better option.
NAHBS – North American Hand Built Show
Ahead of the Bristol handmade bike show, here's a taster of the recent US show.
iceBike* 2012 – Electron lights, Blackburn, San Marco, Gore RideOn…
It defies description... Well, apart from the descriptions we've given
Shimano 2013 – Alfine Di2 and other Shimano Tech
No, it's not April 1st... Here's some genuine electric, offroadable hub gearing! Plus a ramble about other 2013
Midweek Movies 88
It's like Coca Cola; sweet, refreshing and attracts wasps. A video selection for your delectation
iceBike* – The Gamut P30 chain device
A new, clever, quiet and 'British-proof' chain device from Gamut
