New Blur XC-C, belt drives, 29ers from Ritchey, Intense and Charge, plus more!
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.)
Sea Otter: 2012 Fox Racing Shox
For 2012, Fox Racing Shox has some big, dramatic changes to existing models, plus a couple of completely new ones. Just showing that companies do actually listen to riders, and…
New Shimano XT Launches
Yep, there’s a new XT groupset out and, quite frankly, we’re not sure why you’d want to go for XTR now – especially because the brakes look very similar and…
Easton’s Record-Breaking 26in and 29er XC Wheels
The lightest, UST carbon wheels in the world (so far...)
ITS Tyres Manufactures North Shore Specific Rubber
'twas only a matter of time before the wooden riders got a specific tyre...
New Santa Cruz Bikes Released
Carbon 29er hardtail, a new UK-friendly 5in Blur and an alloy Tallboy!
Peebles gets more off road trails
Traffic-free paths between Peebles, Glentress and Innerleithen planned.
Fresh Goods Friday
Once again a little short on the bling this week, but always worth a look anyway! Does include beer too.
Government Forestry Advisory Panel Announced
...and it has no cycling representatives on it. Time to keep up the pressure.
NAHBS – Photos from the Handbuilt Show Pt4
Indy Feb, extended seat tubes and some bamboo in this latest handbuilt show roundup.
NAHBS – Photos from the Handbuilt Show Pt1
Loads of photos of incredible hand-crafted bikes from the NAHBS show.
Sir Jimmy and the front-flip…
Jimmy Savile has been promoting Fort William - with the aid of some familiar stuntmen...
Nick Craig appearing at SHAFF tomorrow!
See the 'nicest man in MTB' interviewed at the Sheffield Adventure Film Fest tomorrow
Hit the North 2.5
The 5th and therefore confusingly-named Hit the North 2.5 took place on Saturday 12th February and according to all who took part, it was another big success. The unique ‘mountain…
Mountain Biking Weekends for Singles
...and apparently they always get more women than men booking in.
News Just In – Govt. to axe forest sell-off
That's what 38Degrees are claiming and the BBC agrees
Midweek Movies
It’s a mixed bag of seated suffering and massive hucking this week, with some fast stuff inbetween. First up we have Leigh Timmis, who sent us the first video of…
Indulging a passion
I’m off on holiday next week – going to visit the girlfriend’s parents in Germany, but first – we’re going to be going to Belgium. Yep, we’re off to see…
Midweek Mini Movies! 1/11
Let's start the new year with some video fun!
Newsflash: Liam Killeen signs for Giant
...for two years, which'll take him up to the next Olympics.
24 & 12 Hours of Exposure 2011 – Defence of the Jerseys
The UK 12 and 24hour solo-only champs scheduled for May 2011. Get training!
Magura’s Secret New Brake Revealed
Some official and some unofficial spy shots of the German giant's new brakes.
The Steeps of San Francisco…
Scot 'Chuck Ibis' Nicol riding ALL the steepest hills in San Francisco!
(Snowy) Midweek Movies…
It's cold outside but we're keeping the internet tubes warm with streaming video
If you go down to the woods today…
...if you go to Dalby anyway, you'll probably bump into the Pace lot - as they've just moved there!
SPAM Winter Challenge (SWC) 2nd January 2011 – BIKE RACING WITH TANKS!
Well, not actually racing against tanks but you get our drift. Everyone loves tanks, don’t they? Anyway, the nice folks at SPAM Biking have just been in touch about the…
Singletrack’s Midweek Mini Movies
Another midweek chance for your boss to catch you watching bike films in work time
Seb Rogers Limited Prints – with added triptychs…
Could this be the first mention of the 'C' word on Singletrack this year?
London 2012 Olympic Mountain Bike Course Preview
Yesterday, Chipps headed down to South Benfleet, Essex, to see how things are coming on with the 2012 Olympic mountain bike venue. (Note, pictures have been shrunk a little to…
British Events Scoop UCI Awards
Fort William wins again and newcomer Dalby wins in its first year. It only cost £200,000 too!
Pro’s Bikes: Emily Batty’s Trek Top Fuel
While Emily Batty is well known for being ‘the pretty blonde girl who rides for Trek’, she also happens to be a great XC rider with some good results to…
Break-in at Hotlines’ London Show
Yep, the scumbags have been at it again. This time stealing some rather distinctive bikes.
Interbike 2010: Niner, Revelate, Voodoo and 661
29ers, hot lids and the funkiest stem we've seen for years...
