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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.)
Midweek Movies 86
The original and best mid-week collection of moving pictures of a mountain bike slant. Accept no substitutes!
Rope Trap on Hamsterley downhill
Watch out for nutters in the woods at Hamsterley. And not the nice kind. A rider was thrown off his bike on the Hamsterley DH course on Sunday after hitting a nylon rope stretched between trees at neck height. The rope trap was put at…
The Syndicate on Shimano – with video too
After years at SRAM and Rockshox, it's all change with the red white and black...
Core Bike 2012: Yeti (old and new)
Everything from swooping carbon to bent oval tubes... All in 'those' colours
Core Bike: Hope Technology
Straight outta Barnoldswick - pedals, finally, integrated chainring and bash plus minimalist chainguide
Core Bike 2012: Silverfish
New bits from Core, including pimp e*thirteen flats, new EVOC armour, SDG saddle, Turner frames and more
Core Bike: Premier Image Dump
We're back from Core Bike and here's a quick download of the highlights for Premier folks. Regular stories tomorrow!
New Year – New Bike!
I’ve always been a bit of a cyclocross fan (despite there being a spot fine for even mentioning it aloud in the office). I’ve race the Three Peaks three times in the last 15 years and I’ve done local ‘cross races on and off throughout…
It’s official: Athertons join Marc Beamont on GT Factory Racing
It's been rumoured for ages, but now it's officially, er, official.
Forget Trans-Wales, now it’s Trail Masters!
Michael Wilkens, the brains behind the TransWales and other great events has been in touch to tell us what’s going down in 2012. It seems the Trans-Wales format is having a rest this year and in its place, Michael is very excited about his new…
What’s bigger than the Trans-Alp? How about the Trans-Nepal?
Country-wide race across the roof of the world, finishing New Year's Eve 2012.
Temperature Regulation
There’s one thing that the last couple of years of odd weather has meant to me – not the thought that we’ve broken the planet’s weather; that’s not in doubt – but it’s the far more trivial poser of ‘what to wear?’ It used to…
Dates out for 2012 Bristol Bikefest and Oktoberfest
Something to put in your 2012 Singletrack Calendar, eh?
Race Report: Endura Autumn Classic 2 – Crowthorne
Joolze Dymond reports from a busy race in the autumn colours...
Big Bike Bash 2012
18/19th August 2012. Mark it in your wallplanner...
Glencoe race is on for this weekend.
Short notice, but the Extreme Winter Downhill series is on this weekend at Glencoe instead of Ae
Tim Flooks for Team Manager
The Madison/Saracen DH team gets a wise old hand as its new manager for 2012
Singletrack’s new Health and Fitness Column
We've expanded our panel of experts, and they want your questions...
SRAM introduces mountain bike wheels
A quick Friday product announcement for you about SRAM's new wheels.
Interbike 2011: Rocky Mountain
Sleek hardtails and a completely redesigned Element, now with big wheels
Interbike: World Champions’ Bikes
Danny Hart's Giant and Jaroslav Kulhavy's Specialized. Two fast bikes...
Fresh Goods Friday
Hello! It’s a slightly scaled down Fresh Goods this Friday, mostly because there’s no one here. Everyone’s off at the Cycle Show at the NEC, or the Trans Provence so there’s just me (Chipps) here manning the office and doing the phone answering and coffee…
Interbike 2011: Specialized
Specialized always has so much stuff on its booth that it’s hard to know where to start. …so we’ll start in the middle… That Robert Egger (Specialized’s creative director) has a lot to answer for. Not only is he behind a lot of the unified…
Interbike 2011: Premier Image Sneak Peek
More carefully chosen preview shots from stories we’ve not written yet. Premier users get a sneak preview of what we’re working on before we release the final stories.
Interbike 2011: More from the show floor
Kryptonite, thumbshifters, messenger bags, Niterider, Phil Wood, FSA angled headset, belts, Chrome and hi-tech goggles
Premier Interbike: Thursday Randoms
A video diary from the inside part of the Interbike show plus a gallery of odd shots just for our Premier users. A Premier subscription can cost just £2/month and gets you access to not only these Premier stories but our entire Mag Archive of…
Interbike 2011: Turner Bikes
Colours, cabling, ISCG and thru-axle rears from the man from Southern California
Interbike 2011: Thursday’s Premier photo gallery
Some carefully hand-selected photos from Wednesday at Interbike for Premier users. These pics will be appearing on the main site shortly with some detail, but in the meantime, here’s a peek…
Interbike 2011: Devinci
We took a look (and a test ride) at the booth of Canadian brand Devinci. Bikes are all made in Canada and the suspension models use Dave Weagle’s Split Pivot design. First up is the 145mm travel, 26in wheel, ‘should be good in the UK’…
Interbike 2011: Premier Image Dump 2
Here’s another load of photos that we’ve not had time to caption yet*, but you Premier users are sure to work out what it all is anyway. So enjoy! It’s 2.30am here and we have to be at the show in six hours If you’re…
