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.)
And now it’s my turn…
Issue 53 has gone to the printers and Chipps and team are happy. There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE FOR…
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...
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...
Chipps is back from Vegas and looking forward to some murky weather. There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE FOR LESS…
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...
Another collection of shots from the huge Eurobike show. This time: Intense, Breezer, Kali, Morewood, Industry Nine, Lynskey, Lupine, Tange, Mavic, Giant and Syntace.
Chipps muses about those really, really big mountains you find on the Continent. There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE FOR…
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…
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 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…
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.…