Packing for Whistler or the 'shore this summer? Full-face - check. Body armour - check. Cool clothes - check. Bear bell - ch...what? New laws will mean that ALL riders…
Chipps
With 23 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 30 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.)
The Big Welsh Weekend is now the Singletrack Big Welsh Weekend
Singletrack is stepping up to sponsor the successful 'Big Welsh Weekend' event that runs on the last weekend in May. Come and ride or race with us and with much…
Team CRC Intense Unveils Its New Rides…
Custom colour, component matched Intense EVO and Tazer frames. Very tasty bikes there chaps... Nigel Page's team riders are just off to their first race in South Africa and their…
Sunshine and, er, sunshine for Premier Demo series
The Cwm Carn date of the Premier Demo series was sunny, trails were dry(!) and dusty(!) and the bikes were tested on a fun course.
Friday Lunchtime Viewing
Here are a few vaguely mountain bike related YouTube clips to help speed the weekend closer to you... Worth getting the headphones out if you're in an office where you're…
Klunkers Trailer Out Now
The best (and only) film about the birth of mountain biking finally has a trailer to give you an idea about what's in it.
Two days to go until the second stop of the 2009 Premier Demo Series at Cwmcarn, South Wales.
This means that in just two days time you could be swinging your leg over demo bikes from Turner, Intense, Lapierre, Cove and Rocky Mountain before heading out onto some…
Manchester Mountain Bikers take on Chris Hoy
Fresh from their team gold in the Downhill at the BUSA championships, Mountain Bikers from the University of Manchester took on Sir Chris Hoy on Monday. The challenge was to…
Friday Afternoon Gear
It's Freaky Friday here in the office. Our pal Deano has just popped in with his monster truck tyred Jeff Jones titanium singlespeed, and Chipps has shown his complete disregard…
Hundreds Turn Up for Ben and Tom Memorial Ride
Over 200 riders turned up for a memorial ride and 'two minutes of noise' to celebrate the lives of the two young downhillers killed in a car accident earlier this…
Seb Rogers To Run Alpine Photo Course
Top photo-hound Seb Rogers is running a photo course with a difference this summer - it's going to have some really big scenery...
SRAM XO in Colours…
Our (other) favourite groupset now comes in half of the colours of the rainbow... Red, Green, Gold, Pink and Orange... Ideal for matching or clashing with all the other coloured…
New frame from that Brant Bloke
New Lynskey-built frame announced by Brant Richards, ex On-one and now with Shedfire. He still doesn't have a brand-name though.
Shaggy Finishes 4th in Alaska
Well done to our bearded pal in coming 4th in the Iditarod Trail Invitational in the worst snow they've ever had... The final stage involved a 40 HOUR push through…
Simandi
Or 'Sim and I' for those that prefer spaces between words... Yep, it's another 'The mag's off to the printers' blog
Another deadline crush
It’s kind of snuck up on us again. Taking a week off to go skiing earlier in February, plus our new week-shorter production schedule has meant the usual deadline cram.…
Our Boy in Alaska
Singletrack contributor, friend and all round good chap, John 'Shaggy' Ross is racing the Iditarod Trail Invitational (aka the Iditabike) right now! 350 miles of snowy fun in Alaska in…
Freak Of The Week
The first in an irregular series of odd-looking bikes to twist your melon on a Monday.
The Flooks sell TF Tuned
Word just in is that Tim and Helen are selling their successful suspension tuning business. Tim will be staying on to work there though...
Hard or soft?
Chipps ponders the ratio of hardtails to suspension in the magazine(s)
Rene Wildhaber Signs with Trek Bikes
The 'fastest European freerider' has signed a two-year contract with Trek Bicycles
New XC Series for the North
Looks like the North of England is going to finally get some good XC racing again after the Brownbacks Series announces dates at the Lee Quarry venue.
Scottish ‘cross on the telly tonight…
The Mull Cyclocross, featured in this issue of Singletrack Magazine is going to be on the Adventure Show on Scottish TV (and other channels?) tonight (Sunday)...
The Picolax Thread Returns
Singletrackworld's most popular thread EVER has been pulled from the archives, polished up and is presented here for you to read again. WARNING! Do not read this if you work…
£3.8 million to develop parkland near Bury – with mountain bike trails included
Nearly £4Million is to be spent in developing an old brownfield/wasteland near Bury that will include mountain bike trails...
‘Boom Boom’ back on Rocky for 2009
Professional Mountain Bike racer, and all round good-egg, Scott ‘Boom Boom’ Beaumont has once again signed for Canadian brand Rocky Mountain Bikes. After a clean sweep of the UK National…
Will Bob Roll shave his head for Lance?
Our pal over at FatCyclist has a campaign on to get Bob Roll to shave his head to raise money for charity. We reckon that the industry's nicest scary-guy deserves…
Back to Grey
Chipps is back from his -9C skiing fun in Italy, but when's the next jolly? He's going to have to invent some more days in the year to get on…
Core Bike News
Some 2009 and 'who knows when?' stuff from the Core Bike Show last week. New stuff from Evil, Hope (including about a million more wheel options - and brown stuff!),…
Been offered a hot Marin?
A van belonging to ATB Sales was broken into in Bury last night and 11 bikes were stolen, including a one-of-a-kind 4X prototype. Keep your eyes peeled...
Want to design some iconic bikes?
On-One are looking for a chief bike-designer. You don't need a shed, but you will need to know what you (and thousands of riders) like... Does that mean that Brant…
Trek UK are hiring IT people…
Got IT skills? Want to work in the bike industry? Trek could be the place for you.
Santa Cruz Driver8 – new!new!new!
ANOTHER new bike from Santa Cruz - this time at a chunkier end of the spectrum - they call it the Driver8
Core Bike Rocks
Just back from the Core Bike show - it was great as always... Now to get some pictures up.
Trail building and repair sessions in Bristol are re-starting in February.
Feb 7th - get down and dig in Bristol. All are welcome...
Mountain Mayhem Announces New Sponsor!
Pat Adam's classic midsummer 24 hour race will now be sponsored by the zingy, tangy people at Original Source
Santa Cruz Bikes Unveil First Full Carbon Fibre Bike
It had to happen (or did it?) Santa Cruz has announced that the new Blur XC will be full carbon, with 105mm travel and a 4.2lb frame and shock weight...
Snow!
A snowy commute made for some late night fixie-fun
New Sidi Dragon-II shoes in gloss red…
Gloss red, patent leather? What were they thinking? Bike tarts apply here...
World Champ Dislocates Shoulder in Training Accident
Rachel Atherton collided with a car while training on the road in Santa Cruz and has dislocated her shoulder. Now updated with more details including why she wasn't wearing a…
Yak Attack Drops Entry Fee
They're keen on getting more of us Brits over to race, so the Yak Attack organisers have dropped their entry fee to less than half price thanks to sponsorship by…
How much do you love your bike?
Jam Price loves Independent Fabrication bikes so much that he's had his iPods, trainers, even his skin branded with their logo...
To singlespeed or not?
Chipps mulls over whether he still qualifies as a singlespeeder...
Mash…
Some bizarre late night musings...
A long way for a pub lunch
Frozen byways and far-away pubs made up Chipps' weekend
A (temporary) new arrival
Chipps borrows a dog...
Let’s ban photoshoots
No sooner had I suggested doing a photoshoot for today – given the run of unbroken blue skies we’ve had recently – than the clouds close in and it starts…
Singletrack Issue 1 Editorial – I’m old enough to know better
I’m old enough to know better… I should know better than to get together with a couple of friends to try and start a mountain bike magazine, published entirely with…
Singletrack Issue 1 – If it’s Tuesday this must be Moab
As we met for a breakfast of omelettes smothered in green chile sauce, Jo and Russell told us about how they’d been up early and seen the Uranium trucks rumbling…