What Mark doesn’t know about social media isn’t worth knowing and his ability to balance “The Stack” is bested only by his agility on a snowboard. Graphs are what gets his engine revving, at least they would if his car wasn’t electric, and data is what you’ll find him poring over in the office. Mark enjoys good whisky, sci-fi and the latest Apple gadget, he is also the best boss in the world (Yes, he is paying me to write this).
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Premier Accounts – The future of publishing?

It’s a bit of a long one this.. Sorry Premier Accounts are our answer to the growing and rather worrying trend in the publishing industry for people to stop buying…

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International Basque Force – Issue 53 Extras (With Premier Content)

A large gallery of shots we couldn’t use from our International Basque Force travel feature in Singletrack magazine issue 53. Contains extra content for Premier Users. There\'s more to this…

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Cotic BFe – Cycleshow Video Interview

Cy shows Mark around the all new Cotic BFe in our Cycleshow sitting room studio

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18bikes Custom Steel – Cycle2009 Video

18bikes popped in to our sitting room to tell us about their new custom steel service 🙂

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Cotic Soul Video Interview

Cy Turner from Cotic Cycles was the first person to be interviewed in our northern sitting room studio at the Cycle Show.

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Interbike Video Diary 5

Camelbak’s new UV Water Purification bottle and a new rack from Thule that we really liked a lot.

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Interbike Video Diary 4: Surly

We love the Surly guys. They have a slightly more laid back approach to what they do.

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Cannondale ‘Simon’ at Interbike 2009: Video Diary 3

In the absence of any really groundbreaking product launches from the bike industry (most of it was done at Eurobike it seems) Cannondale have today told us they have invented...

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Interbike 2009: Video Diary 2

Interbike is a trade only show, which means only people with some (often vague) connection to the bike industry get to go. So here’s a bit of quick helmetcam footage...

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Interbike 2009 – Day 1 Video Diary

Mark and Chipps ride bikes, try on sunnys and get all excited about half a bash ring and thixotropic jelly. The bike Mark was riding was this one… It’s the...

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Shimano Anti Doping Statement

Watch out dopers! If you get caught Shimano will be round to strip your bike of bits

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Road Bike Mayhem

Road bikes at Mountain Mayhem? Surely not!

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How far away are they?

After a day of mucho rainio and excellentio trailsio yesterday on the hills above Irun…….imagine technical, rocky Lakeland trails and you’ll have a good idea of the type of riding…

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El Scorchio Notio

Do you fancy a \'big ride\' sir? Dias Uno in El Bigio Brotherio Housio! Arrived late last night to the rural B and B in an old converted farmhouse to…

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Working hard in a Basque

Just arrived in Basque Country to stay with www.basquemtb.com. It’s me and Sanny here. Last time we both went on a biking trip together we were in Austria and it…

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Singletrack Reader Week – Video Diary 1

First day on the mountain above Morzine with a selection of the big bikes we took with us. A preview of the upcoming feature in issue 52 - out September…

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No Busman’s Holiday Thanks

Once a year I like to get away from it all. And by that I mean I like to have a week away from bikes! Now don;t get me wrong…

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Lapierre 2010

Mark was invited out to Morzine see the 2010 range of Lapierre bikes. 2010 sees a mixture of simple colour changes and some substantial geometry changes across the more XC…

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Singletrack EZ-up Stolen From Dalby Forest

Singletrack pop-Up shelter stolen from Dalby Forest. It\'s going to be expensive to replace but should be pretty easy to spot.

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New Outdoor Bike Festival In The Works

What Tyres For Mountain Mayhem was not the only topic of discussion at last weekend\'s 24hr enduro. Organsiser Pat Adams gathered together brand managers from across the industry in the…

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Original Source Mountain Mayhem Results

All the results from all the teams and individuals from the weekend\'s Mayhem (Including individual lap times)

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Anodised Goodies Twittered

The guys from Fli Distribution just left our office after showing us a huge bag full of lovely, bright and anodised kit they are distributing far and wide to a...

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Win £1000 of Bike Bits!

Win over £1000 of bike components by watching out for one of our special edition 50th anniversary posters in your local bike shop.

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Comment on the comments

Is it me or are the people posting comments on our stories getting increasingly more negative and cynical?  SRAM launch their 10 speed groupset and within minutes of Dave posting…

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Chicken Dance Extravaganza

Having been to Canada a couple of times to do mountain bike stuff with the help of the tourist boards over there, I’ve ended up on the mailing list of…

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nPower just doubled our electricity bill

nPower have doubled our office electricity bill because we didn’t write a letter to them in September to tell them we were switching suppliers in December, even though at the…

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Twitter Ye Not!

Follow us on Twitter and you could win stuff we have lying around the office - This week we\'ve got tyres, multi-tool, lock, pump and a bucket of energy to…

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Statistics, swearing and those bloody ads again!

Swearing can be funny, stats are great but not when an insurance company gets hold of them to try and prove that cycling is dangerous and ads are here to…

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Business as usual

The forum post frequency is returning to its pre Christmas level now, which is reassuring and I reckon a big indication of a return to normal service is the number…

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Singletrack Issue 1 Editorial 2

GoFar is pleased to announce the birth of its successor. Well this is a bit of a leap isn’t it? From website to real mag. There’s a sort of inverse…