Issue 153 Classic Ride: Surrey Thrills

Issue 153 Classic Ride: Surrey Thrills

Despite Hurtwood being one of the UK’s busiest riding spots, its trail network relies heavily on the continued goodwill of landowners and volunteers. Adele takes a ride to find out…

Issue 153 MTB Culture: Minority Rapport

Issue 153 MTB Culture: Minority Rapport

What is it about women’s rides that is proving so attractive? Fi Spotswood has been trying to find out. Words Fi Spotswood Photography Credited I’m ashamed to admit that when…

Issue 152 International Adventure: Icy Trails And Fairy Tales

Issue 152 International Adventure: Icy Trails And Fairy Tales

Martin Bissig makes the most of a week in surprisingly snow-dusted Cappadocia. Words & Photography Martin Bissig Unexpectedly caught in a snowstorm on a biking trip in Turkey, I found…

Editors’ Choice: The Best Bikes and Gear of 2023

Editors’ Choice: The Best Bikes and Gear of 2023

The Singletrack World team pick their product highlights from their riding year. Benji, Amanda, Hannah, Ross, Mark and Chipps pick the best.

Issue 152 Classic Ride: Riding the Dyfi

Issue 152 Classic Ride: Riding the Dyfi

The Climachx trail in the Dyfi Valley offers a day out for those looking for an alternative to the Athertons’ neighbouring descents.

Issue 152 International Adventure: Choosing The Right Path

Issue 152 International Adventure: Choosing The Right Path

Jonathan Kambskarð-Bennett took on unseasonable Moroccan weather and unfriendly dogs in order to get a glimpse of the vast Sahara Desert on his bike. It wasn’t a simple journey. Words…

Magura Vyron MDS-V3: The Original Wireless Dropper

Magura Vyron MDS-V3: The Original Wireless Dropper

The V3 is intended to be more intuitive to use, generally faster to react, faster to extend, easier to set up, and easier to maintain.

Singletrack Issue 151: Borneo Singletrack

Singletrack Issue 151: Borneo Singletrack

Steve helped plant the mountain biking seed in Borneo a decade ago. Visiting again for the first time, he wondered if it had taken root and flourished. Words Steve Chapman…

Singletrack Issue 151: Finding The Flow

Singletrack Issue 151: Finding The Flow

The full member paywall on this article has been removed in association with Endura Skipping school and heading to the woods might get some kids a telling-off. Ina de Smet discovered it…

Issue 150: Limestone Cowboys

Issue 150: Limestone Cowboys

Can you really enjoy the delights of a new country when you’re racing through it at high speed on a stage race? There’s only one way to find out…  Words…

Issue 150: Full Time Tinkering

Issue 150: Full Time Tinkering

Steve Chapman talks to the man who makes your suspension work better than when it left the factory. Words Steve Chapman photography Sarah Barratt I’ve been harbouring a secret for…

Singletrack World Issue 150 Celebration

Singletrack World Issue 150 Celebration

It’s not always new tyres and perfect corners, OK? Singletrack World Magazine is 150 issues old. That’s no mean feat, and we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you a…

International Adventure: Big Mountains, Small Details

International Adventure: Big Mountains, Small Details

In the vast Himalayan landscape, a solo trip is the stuff of dreams. Words & Photography Matthias Stitz It’s 4.30am. Dawn is breaking, it’s freezing, and I’m standing at the…

Last Word: Riding with Dinosaurs

Last Word: Riding with Dinosaurs

Is Ian ‘@hardtail_only’ Storer trapped in the past or revelling in his eternal youth?

Making Up The Numbers Podcast – Ed Masters

Making Up The Numbers Podcast – Ed Masters

The DH World Cup season is just around the corner & in this episode George, Jack& Emi discuss the amendments to the rule changes for 2023. Then, they’re joined by…

Issue 148: Looking The Other Way

Issue 148: Looking The Other Way

How can a failed attempt at a record be considered a success? Steve Bate shows how a struggle can offer an alternative perspective. Who is Steve Bate? After being diagnosed…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Charlotte Inman

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Charlotte Inman

Charlotte Inman: In it for the breakfast views Charlotte co-founded Sisters in the Wild, which organises community-focused bikepacking and gravel riding experiences for women, non-binary and trans people. What’s the…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Chris Hinds

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Chris Hinds

Chris Hinds: Fast doesn’t mean uncomfortable Chris won the Great British Divide, so knows a thing or two about sleeping out. What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Emma Osenton

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Emma Osenton

Emma Osenton: Dialled in traveller Looking for Emma? You’ll find her in the bushes cuddled up to a titanium bike. What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing kit? …

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Kitty Dennis

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Kitty Dennis

Kitty Dennis: Overpacker to ride for longer Co-founder of the Steezy Collective, we’re not sure when she’s ever indoors. What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing kit? Whether…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Sam Jones

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Sam Jones

Sam Jones: Dirtbag camper who doesn’t mind a touch of luxury Sam has been championing Cycling UK’s ongoing bikepacking/camping challenge of #12nightsoutin1year.  What’s the chief thing you look for when…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Sanny

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Sanny

Sanny: Like a veritable Scottish Mr T, I ain’t camping in no rain, fool! There can be few as enthusiastic about a night outdoors than our Sanny. What’s the chief…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Stu Taylor

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Stu Taylor

Stu Taylor: Racing Dirtbagger Stu is another long-distance racer, who also enjoys a night out on his local hills. What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing kit? How…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Vedangi Kulkarni

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Vedangi Kulkarni

Vedangi Kulkarni: All-weather bivvy freak As the youngest woman to cycle around the globe, Vedangi has plenty of experience of sleeping outdoors. What’s the chief thing you look for when…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Amanda

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Amanda

What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing kit?I mostly care about how small it packs, with comfort and durability as a joint second priority. I generally go by…

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Hannah

Sleeping Out: Bonus Content | Hannah

What’s the chief thing you look for when choosing kit? I look for budget options that will also be useful for family camping trips, sleeping in my car, trips to…

Mental Mondays #3 – Crossword & puzzles by Chipps

Mental Mondays #3 – Crossword & puzzles by Chipps

Chipps is the designer of this week’s fiendishly tricky crossword. You may need to have your MTB historical records to hand to complete this one. Good luck. Todays quiz was…

WTF are Activated Carbon Fork Spacers?

WTF are Activated Carbon Fork Spacers?

Studio chat between Mark, Charlie and Benji covers everything from concussion protocols to why it’s often better to not understand how a product works before reviewing it. Charlie rants about…

Fresh Goods Friday 643 – The Chiller Aisle Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 643 – The Chiller Aisle Edition

Let’s be truly British and talk about the weather, eh? It seems that no sooner have you been given a glimpse of spring than it all goes bonkers again and…

From The Archive: Womens’ Specific Bikes – do we need them?

From The Archive: Womens’ Specific Bikes – do we need them?

Back in issue 15 of Singletrack Magazine, in 2004, we reviewed three of what were then a new development: women’s specific bikes. We followed it up with a head to…

Cheaper Things Tuesday: Discounted E-Bikes Edition

Cheaper Things Tuesday: Discounted E-Bikes Edition

Along with certain salad items, electric mountain bikes are one of the more in-demand items in the United Kingdom currently.

11 Things That Should Be Standard Issue, Not Special Feature

11 Things That Should Be Standard Issue, Not Special Feature

We've rounded up some of those product 'features' that we think should go without saying. Feel free to disagree, or add your own below! When you're looking at products, especially…

What We’re Looking Forward To In 2023

What We’re Looking Forward To In 2023

Let us raise our spirits, look on the bright side, and feel the warm rays of positivity. 2023 is gonna be great, OK? There are going to be highlights, and…

Christmas MTB Bingo

Christmas MTB Bingo

Oh, we love them, but we also know kith and kin are going to buy us things we don’t want. How many items on our MTB Bingo card will you…

Editors’ Choice Awards: The Best Bikes and Gear of 2022

Editors’ Choice Awards: The Best Bikes and Gear of 2022

The products and bikes that made the team’s year in 2022.

Website Update: Forum Thread Notifications Are Back!

Website Update: Forum Thread Notifications Are Back!

Our Tech Team has been working hard, and has a little functionality update for you: Too many moons ago we took the draconian step to remove the ‘Subscribe to a…

Mondraker MIND Telemetry review

Mondraker MIND Telemetry review

Mondraker MIND is a GPS enabled telemetry system. As well as being able to help you set up your suspension it collects data on it.

Reel Around The Mountain – A Mont Blanc Adventure

Reel Around The Mountain – A Mont Blanc Adventure

Originally published in Issue 110 of Singletrack World Magazine, let us take you back in time to the kind of adventure you might well find yourself planning from the comfort…

Not-Bike Objects of Desire: What We’re Looking For

Not-Bike Objects of Desire: What We’re Looking For

There are things that we lust after too, in our normal daily lives, that don't come with stickers or free Haribo.

Balls to the World Cup? Here are 28 bike things that take 90 minutes

Balls to the World Cup? Here are 28 bike things that take 90 minutes

We've got a lot of thoughts and ideas about how we'd like to spend 90 minutes that don't involve watching Association Football.

Making Up The Numbers: Wyn Masters to do World Cup commentary?

Making Up The Numbers: Wyn Masters to do World Cup commentary?

Will he or won’t he? In this week’s episode of Making Up The Numbers George chats with Vali Hoell and Thibaut Daprela about some wild & wonderful team rumours. The…

Issue 145: Red Bull Formation: A Foundation For The Future

Issue 145: Red Bull Formation: A Foundation For The Future

Red Bull Formation pushes female freeriders into the mainstream. Words Nicole Formosa Photography Katie Lozancich Katie Holden and I are peering up at an amphitheatre of rust-coloured cliff bands in the Utah desert…

Issue 144 : Excess baggage

Issue 144 : Excess baggage

Nils takes an unusual packing list to the mountains for an overnight adventure. Words & photography Nils Amelinckx I fumbled around in the last of the light, the cold breeze…

Issue 144: Cannock Chasing Time

Issue 144: Cannock Chasing Time

Two mountain bike races, same venue, 30 years apart. Words & Photography Geoff Waugh Time, he’s waiting in the wings Take a look at the above photos. I took them…

Classic Ride 144 – Ludlow and the Clee Hills

Classic Ride 144 – Ludlow and the Clee Hills

Shropshire isn’t all about the Long Mynd. Steve links up some hidden gems. Words & Photography Steve ChapmanIllustration Beate Kubitz If you’ve heard anything about the riding in Shropshire it’s…

Singletrack World Response to Nadine Dorries’ Comments on Trans Athletes

Singletrack World Response to Nadine Dorries’ Comments on Trans Athletes

Singletrack World takes the position that Trans women are women, and cannot support the recent statements by the UK Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries. In the Mail on Sunday, she wrote…

Issue 143: A New Year’s Assault on Ventoux

Issue 143: A New Year’s Assault on Ventoux

When your traditional New Year’s ski-tour to a mountain hut won’t work because of the weather, then doing it on mountain bikes is arguably a better choice.  Words & Photography…

Issue 143 Bonus Content! Classic Ride Fuel – Flapjack Recipe

Issue 143 Bonus Content! Classic Ride Fuel – Flapjack Recipe

Since Barney made such a fuss over Rick’s flapjack (OOOAAAH), we asked Rick to share the recipe, so you can have your own chorus of angels on your next ride…

Fresh Goods Friday 605: The Highly Erratic Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 605: The Highly Erratic Edition

I (Amanda), am in the Lake District with Benji and Mark, fumbling around with bikes and cameras. It’s far too rare an occasion that this job actually takes us outside…

Issue 143: Shiny Happy People

Issue 143: Shiny Happy People

Alf Alderson was enticed to South Carmarthenshire by a local tourist board promotion – but did the riding live up to the hype? Words Alf Alderson Photography Alf Alderson vs…

Issue 143 Hans Rey: Lasting Legacies

Issue 143 Hans Rey: Lasting Legacies

Hans Rey learns from new hotshots and old legends to work out his place in mountain biking’s legacy. Words & Photography Carmen Freeman-Rey Looking back on life can be a…