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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.)
Eurobike 2011: Yeti SB95 and SB66 Carbon
Chipps reports on the new big wheeler and new plastic bike from Yeti
Eurobike 2011: Intense – Carbon and more carbon
Last week we brought you news of Intense’s new Hard Eddie carbon hardtail and before that the new carbon Carbine. Well there’s already another new model. Its’ the Carbine SL.…
Eurobike: Orange and the big wheels
The Eurobike Trio are still there and Chipps takes up the story. OK, if we count the Demo Day as day 1, then today must be Day 2. Today we…
Eurobike: Demo Day 1
Greetings from Eurobike! Jon, Matt and Chipps (that’s me)Â are over at Eurobike for the week, seeing what’s new for 2012. The first day was the Demo Day, so we…
Intense’s Hard-Eddie 29er Hardtail
Fresh Goods is postponed this week due to too many new bikes being launched! How's this one for ya?
Rose Bikes 2012 Launch
Faye Sanders reports back from the Rose Bikes launch, in the mountains, in the sunshine...
Niner is stoked…
A new couple of frames from the big wheel company, Niner. Updated Air 9 and EMD frames
Midweek Movies!
Well, there goes August... You might as well waste a bit more of it watching videos...
Fresh Goods Friday!
It’s been a busy week at Singletrack Towers, working on issue 68, which obviously is the freshest of the fresh. Here’s a sneak preview of what it’s going to look…
Gore Bike Wear TransWales Day Four!
...(deep breath!)... Powered by Vito Sport. Day Four: ‘The Climachx’
New Danny Macaskill Video!
Drop what you're doing. This is bound to be good. The new Danny Mac flick!
Intense reveals its new carbon frame: The Carbine
5.5-6in of travel and 5.5lbs with shock... Get drooling.
Top Riders Turn Out For Olympic Course Test Event
Dress rehearsal race for the Olympics had the stars all there
Two New Nicolais – 4X and 29er
Marcus Farley and Tim Spickernell have been pumping the Germans for gossip...
PressCamp 2011: Enve Rims
Enve Rims showed us what is new at last month’s Press Camp event in Deer Valley, Utah. If the name’s not familiar to you, it used to be known at…
Midweek Movies Bonus
Renthal just missed the cutoff for Midweek Movies this morning, but we thought you might want to see its new video, shot by Alex Rankin. In it, you’ll get a…
Fresh Goods Friday
Hello. You’re through to Singletrack. The editorial office have all gone off on press trips and aren’t available right now. We’ve managed to round up a selection of fresh goods…
Mid, er End of Week Movies
Everyone’s off at press launches or OS Mountain Mayhem, so we’re taking the easy way out and giving you a few films to while away that Friday afternoon… First up…
The Bristol Bespoked Show
Steve Makin reports on the UK's first, modern, hand-built bike show, plus an exclusive on the 18Bikes full susser
First Ride – New Yeti SB-66 Trail Bike
Yeti has a new 6in travel trail bike out; the SB-66. It looks simple, works complicated and rides great.
Erlestoke 12 – ten days to go
We’ve just had an over-excited email from the SPAM lot, who are keen to let you know that their 12 hour race (which this year will be a sensible 12…
Danny MacAskill – the Secret Tapes
Seven minutes of MacAskill outtakes and commentary from THAT video
Camelbak Office (And Test Lab) Visit
Chipps visits Camelbak's California office and secret test lab and blows stuff up!
Sea Otter: Random Roundup #3
More random Sea Otter sightings: MRP, Specialized, Light and Motion, Grammo, Foes...
Sea Otter: Banshee Prime (and Spitfire)
Banshee (Mythic in the UK)'s new Prime 29er and (not as new) Spitfire 26er
Premier: Sea Otter Image Dump #3
Here’s some more unedited bling for Singletrack Premier users only to dribble over. Full stories for regular users will follow as soon as we get a minute to write them.
Sea Otter: ‘Shimano’ Electronic Shifting for MTBs
Not from Shimano though, from Ki2Bikes who chop up Dura Ace stuff for you.
Sea Otter: 29er Stuff
Here’s a tie-together of many of the 29er bits and pieces we saw around the Otter. We’ll visit many of them again in future stories, but this is where we’ll…
Sea Otter: Cannondale’s Scalpel 29er
Cannondale has added to its 29er offering with a new Scalpel race/trail bike. Here’s the quick and dirty on it: As seen it’s 21.4lb/9.6kg. Frame and shock are 1900g It…