Places are still available for the last 24 hour race of the season up at Fort William.
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.)
Ibis Gets New UK Distributor
Ibis Cycles now have a new UK distributor as of about now. Here’s their rather amusing press release on the matter. Look for a couple of Ibis bike tests in…
Dorel Industries buys UK distributor Hot Wheels. And Charge Bikes.
The company that owns Cannondale, GT, Sugoi and Mongoose has now bought UK distributor Hot Wheels.
Cotic to have actual new product at the Cycle Show
We’ve just had word over the Bat Laptop that Cotic will be making it worthwhile you coming to the Cycle Show next week – lots of brand new models to…
Interbike Eight: Ellsworth to Colnago
Ellsworth, Pearl Izumi, Pedro's, Knog, Genuine Innovations, Twin Six, Vicious, Salsa, Bianchi, Chrome, Camelbak and, er, M&Ms
Interbike Seven: The show goes on…
We're back from Interbike, so the flow of stories can continue...
Show’s over = Autumn
Chipps is back from Vegas and looking forward to some murky weather.
Interbike Four: See? We’d just forgotten to post it.
We hope you didn't think that that was the end of it. There's plenty more still...
Interbike Six: Tyres, Turners and POC
Another ‘fill in your own captions for now’ piece while we take in the last day of the show. More thorough captions will appear once we’re not actually still trying…
Interbike Five: More from the floor
Another 40 or so pictures from today's Interbike show in Las Vegas.
Interbike Part Three: More from the desert
Brand new Titus bikes in Ti and carbon, Smith, 3speed fixies, Felt and more
Interbike: Camelbak
Geeky about water? So is Camelbak with a digi flow meter and a water purifying system - that uses UV light in a bottle!
Interbike Report Two – More Dirt Demo stuff
Come and roast with us in the desert and check out new stuff plus Peaty's World Championship bike.
Interbike Report One: Let’s take a look round.
Race Face, King, Giro, WTB and more.
SSWC 2009 – the tattoos and the basketball decider
The venue for SSWC 2010 was decided by a basketball match
SSWC 2009 Durango – Results and everything!
Well, the race is over, the results are in.
Kona Cheddar Bikefest
Michael Wilkens reports from the Kona Cheddar Bikefest held at the Broadway House Caravan Park on the 12-13th September.
Eurobike 2009
Another collection of shots from the huge Eurobike show. This time: Intense, Breezer, Kali, Morewood, Industry Nine, Lynskey, Lupine, Tange, Mavic, Giant and Syntace.
Gurt Big Hills
Chipps muses about those really, really big mountains you find on the Continent.
Eurobike Twelfty – There’s more…
More from the Eurobike memory cards. Here's Tomac, Cannondale, Formula, Ritchey, Shimano, Magura, Pronghorn, Middleburn and more.
Ae All Abilities Day
The 7Stanes venue of Ae is hosting a day for ALL ability riders to come along and try riding in the forest on Sept 12th. Everything from mobility scooters to…
Eurobike: We’ve still got loads of stories left
More from Eurobike. This time from Lapierre, Canfield, a Ritchey tandem, a 30 speed Specialized MTB, Troy Lee and a pair of bib shorts designed just for women.
Eurobike: New Pace forks, new Ibis, DT wheels, Exposure lights, Camelbak, Charge Bikes, Lezyne…
Loads more supersize pictures from Eurobike. Here's a look at the new Pace forks, DT wheels, Lezyne tools and bags, Exposure lights, a new 160mm Ibis and much, much more.
Eurobike: Bell, Giro and Kona
Another photo love story from Eurobike. This time we have some huge shots from Kona, Specialized, Five Ten, Giro, Bell, Yeti, Chub and more...
Eurobike Day One Part Two
Eurobike 2009, and Matt and Chipps are over there looking for the new stuff. Here's the first of their photo reports from the show: First-off we're featuring new stuff from…
Trek Remedy Goes Carbon
The Trek Remedy all-mountain bike is now 150/150mm and gains two OCLV carbon models and two aluminium ones, plus magnesium rockers ABP plus rear pivots and lots of good stuff.…
Trek 2010
Trek's 2010 bikes - new carbon stays on the Fuel EX line, plus a brand new Fox shock, new shock on the Top Fuel too. And how about that OCLV…
Hub Guide To The British Champs
The Hub in the Forest have made a guidebook for this weekend's British Champs
Partnership agreement ensures Aston Hill’s future
CTC – the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation, Aston Hill Mountain Bike Club and Forestry Commission have joined forces to create a special CTC membership package that provides access to and…
Robbing Peter, Paying Paul
We all know that getting the work/life balance right is important, but I seem to be having problems with my work/work balance at the moment too. I was meant to…
Valiant T-Shirts are here…
They have some clever, mountain bike related T-shirts and, what? Yep, they have their own 1940s radio detective show...
Danny MacAskill stars in new Doves video
Danny MacAskill manages to show off his amazing street trials skills again - this time in a new video for the band Doves.
Singletrack Classic Weekender – the photos
Our man Sim spent all weekend burning in the Lancashire sunshine to bring us a photo story of a great weekend at the Weekender.
Specialized 2010 – The Media Pack
We missed this year's Specialized press launch, so here are some selected pages from the Media Guide that came with it. Ahh, what the hell. Here's the whole Media-Only press…
Montane Kielder 100 – One lap, one rider, one adventure, 100 Hundred Miles
And while we're on the subject of Kielder. Remember that you were complaining that there weren't any 'proper' 100 mile races in the UK, like they have in the USA?…
New Exposure lights spotted at Mayhem
The chaps and chapesses at USE and Exposure Lights have been busy down in Petworth and they used the Original Source Mountain Mayhem to showcase some products and to do…
Press Camp 2009. The first installment…
Press Camp 2009 is a multi-manufacturer press launch event in Sun Valley, Idaho. We've sent our own worldwide glamourpuss Chipps to cover it for us. Here's the first installment that…
Britain to host two mountain bike World Cup rounds in 2010
We've just heard that Dalby Forest has won the bid to host the April, opening round of the 2010 Mountain Bike World Cup XC, while Fort William retains the DH…
Missy Giove in huge drugs bust…
...and not the performance-enhancing kind either...
2010 Shimano Deore
Loads of pictures of our 'Media Priority' samples that have just pitched up to the office... That means that new Shimano Deore exists and should start appearing on bikes and…
A new record for the highest bike challenge in the world. Now with video!
The Annapurna Circuit is usually a 19-day trek. These guys did it in under three... That's over 4,000 metres of climbing!
Lyme Disease – everything you wanted to know (and stuff you wish you didn’t)
After some forum debate on the topic, regular poster and Lyme disease sufferer 'nospringchicken' has put together a pretty comprehensive guide to the disease told from his own personal perspective...…
Riding the Ridge, inches from disaster…
Chipps' favourite video of the week - this time some mental ridgeline riding action from Rene Wildhaber in Bolivia... Crazy, crazy stuff.
National Marathon Championship – Margam Park
Joolze Dymond reports from the UK National Marathon Champs - and the Singletrack Big Welsh Weekender down in Margam Park, South Wales this weekend.
And you thought you were fast?
Have a look at Greg Minaar's helmet cam footage of this weekend's Fort William World Cup DH run. Complete with very casual sounding commentary...
Watch Out in Wharncliffe This Weekend
Watch out for lots of horse riders if you're going to be near Wharncliffe Woods this weekend. Or aim to steer clear and visit next weekend instead. If we're nice…
Singletrack Big Welsh Weekender getting full!
There are over 850 riders and racers booked in for this weekend's Big Welsh Weekender in Margam Park, South Wales. Looks like good weather too... Come along and watch for…
Kona Bristol Bikefest is filling up…
One of our favourite events of the year, the Kona Bristol Bikefest is only ten days away and it's filling up fast. Deadline for some entries is this weekend, so…
The new Transition Bikes Covert model
Only slight apologies for the press release cut 'n' paste, but we thought you'd like to see the new 'genre redefining' Covert bike from Transition Bikes...
North Shore Riding – on a unicycle…
Chipps' favourite video of the week - Mike Parenteau riding Nelson BC on two wheels - and then on just the one...
West Highland Way in a Day
Riding the West Highland Way is nothing new, but doing it in under 24 hours for charity is going to take some doing...