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…

Flat Pedal Shoes Buyer’s Guide: MTB Kit Essentials

Flat Pedal Shoes Buyer’s Guide: MTB Kit Essentials

What makes a great pair of flat pedal shoes? And, more importantly, who is delivering? Here are the best flattie pumps around.

O say, can you see Fresh Goods Friday 597?

O say, can you see Fresh Goods Friday 597?

Apologies in advance for any USA pricing. Hannah is on holiday and can't figure out how to get UK websites to display on her laptop.

Classic Ride 142 – The Glorious Peaks

Classic Ride 142 – The Glorious Peaks

Words & Photography Chipps Chipps takes on a tour around one of Yorkshire’s iconic Three Peaks with a couple of similarly iconic characters.  The other Peaks Planning a decent bike…

Issue 142 Interview: Going Downhill

Issue 142 Interview: Going Downhill

Steve Chapman chats to the unassuming Pearces who have shaped UK downhill racing. Words Steve Chapman Photography As Credited If you look at the movers and shakers of UK mountain…

Editorial: The Eternal Suffering Of The Spoke

Editorial: The Eternal Suffering Of The Spoke

I was once on a Mavic press launch, somewhere in the French mountains. Our merry band of bike journalists was augmented by some of Mavic’s sponsored riders, including Jérôme Clementz…

UK Adventure: Far From The Maddening Crowds

UK Adventure: Far From The Maddening Crowds

Fed up with the same old, same old of trail centres? Sanny reckons he has found the perfect antidote just a few miles down the valley from Glentress and Innerleithen.…

International Adventure: Rocks And Hard Places

International Adventure: Rocks And Hard Places

Tim Wild packs a bike and his sense of adventure and takes part in the Sedona Mountain Bike Festival in Arizona. Words Tim Wild Photography as credited I’ve watched too…

Pete’s Pros: Hattie Harnden

Pete’s Pros: Hattie Harnden

Pete Scullion talks fun, work and sleep with the multidisciplinary bike racing dynamo. Words & Photography Pete Scullion Despite being a classic mountain biking destination, I’d never once stopped in Great…

Singletrack Kitchen: Charlie’s Cheesy Chilli Cakes & Roasted Red Soup

Singletrack Kitchen: Charlie’s Cheesy Chilli Cakes & Roasted Red Soup

This is a nice winter recipe that will warm you through on one of those ‘can’t feel my toes, but can see my breath’ days. Really, it’s just cheese scones…

Singletrack Issue 141 kit essentials: Insulated jackets

Singletrack Issue 141 kit essentials: Insulated jackets

Chipps and the team venture out into the chill winds to bring word of the best insulated jackets out there.

Singletrack Issue 141 UK Adventure: Pilgrim’s Regress

Singletrack Issue 141 UK Adventure: Pilgrim’s Regress

Adam Boggon returns to his childhood haunts in this reflective ride through Fife. Words Adam Boggon Photography Peter Munnoch The King sits in Dunfermline toun, Drinking the blude-red wine, ‘O…

Behind The Scenes: The Art of the Photograph

Behind The Scenes: The Art of the Photograph

Why are Pete Scullion’s photographs so great compared to your own trail shot efforts? Is it the subject, the method, or a big pile of kit? Words & Photography Pete…

Singletrack Issue 141 – The Joy of Flex

Singletrack Issue 141 – The Joy of Flex

Welcome to Benji, our new Technical Content Manager. He has opinions and he’s not afraid to share them. As the person who’s just been hired to be In Charge Of…

Chris Hinds – Unexpected Hero

Chris Hinds – Unexpected Hero

How much physical and mental strength does it take to finish, let alone win, the 1,800km Great British Divide? More than we could ever imagine. Words & Photography Chipps &…