Welcome to Day 2 of our annual MegaSack countdown prize draw. Today you could win a bike cleaning kit from Muc-Off. But before you enter our competition you will have to watch the highly professional video featuring today’s prize. This is a bright pink bicycle-specific…
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Singletrack MegaSack Countdown 2021 Day 1 – Magura MT5 Brakes
It’s the first day of our amazing countdown to New Year giveaway. Every day in December we’ve got a prize to give away, with a duplicate of each daily prize going into the Megasack – a giant pile of bike goodness, containing one of everything…
Classic Ride 139 – Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain An evening leg stretcher on Salisbury Plain gives Dean and friends a classic southern ride of rolling hills and lengthening shadows. Words Dean Hersey Photography Trail Creatives I love the buzz you get from the anticipation of a ride almost as much as…
Kit Essentials: Fancy Pants
Where once the knee sock reigned supreme, now the riding trouser has emerged as a seriously practical option. Here’s what the Singletrack Staff have been using. We’ve had a little sun, we’ve enjoyed a few days of dusty summer trails, but now the temperature is…
Únic Signature Pants Review
This review was part of the Singletrack World Issue 139 Kit Essentials Feature Tested by: Andi Price: €88.62 From: Unicwear.com Únic is a clothing manufacturer based out of Andorra with a factory in Poland. The company only produces clothing to order, and they’ll happily customise…
Singletrack Reader Awards 2021 – Nominations and Deliberations
We’re excited about this year’s format for the Reader Awards and it seems you are too. Your nominations are in, so we sat down with Scott Belshaw from our Awards Sponsor, Kona Bikes, to have a chat about some of the names that have been…
Get A Month Of Singletrack Full Membership For Free
There’s something of a kerfuffle over on PinkBike about them being bought out by Outside Magazine. Users are worried that all their free content will go behind a paywall – and certainly some of it seems likely to go that way. Here at Singletrack we’ve…
Classic Ride 137 – The Surrey Hills
Sam Jones sees if he can find a new way to link up the ancient and modern trails around the famous Surrey Hills. Words Sam Jones Photography Rob Spanring Some days everything comes together. The sun shines, the trail suits notoriously fussy Goldilockses (not too…
Singletrack Podcast – Where we try to unscramble what Brexit means for us
So Brexit is here now for real. It’s all come down to this. We are on the other side and following a hurried through set of Christmas free trade rules. What does Brexit mean for mountain bikers? There are businesses announcing their changes on a…
Christmas Countdown Day 23 – The DMR Bundle
Welcome to Day 23 of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. DMR Bundle (V11 Pedals, Deathgrips & 25C…
Christmas Countdown Day 22 – The Lezyne Bundle
Welcome to Day 22 of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Lezyne Bundle Price: £295 From: Upgrade Bikes…
Christmas Countdown Day 15 – Shimano AM902 Shoes
Welcome to Day 15 of our big Goodbye to 2020, Christmas And Beyond Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our festival of good things to all riders, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Shimano AM902 Shoes Price: £139.99 From: Freewheel…
Christmas Countdown Day 13 – Deity Pedals and Grips
Welcome to Day 13 of our big Goodbye to 2020, Christmas And Beyond Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our festival of good things to all riders, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Deity Defgrip Pedals and Supracush…
Christmas Countdown Day 11 – Alpinestars Vector Pro Helmet
Welcome to Day Nine of our big Goodbye to 2020, Christmas And Beyond Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our festival of good things to all riders, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Could it be a Vector…
Christmas Countdown Day 10 – Look Trail Roc Pedals
Welcome to Day Ten of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Look Trail Roc Flat Pedals Price: £68…
Christmas Countdown Day 9 | Serious Security with Hiplok
Welcome to Day Nine of our big Goodbye to 2020, Christmas And Beyond Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our festival of good things to all riders, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Hiplok E-DX Chain & U-Lock Combo…
Singletrack Podcast – The riding bikes indoors on Zwift can be fun episode
This week sees the final race in the Forum organised Autumn Zwift series 2. Last week, Mark & Chipps both decided to see what all the fuss was about. Chipps held on to the middle of the bunch while Mark took a site seeing tour…
Christmas Countdown Day 4 – A Continental Breakfast
Welcome to Day Four of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Continental Tyres Package of RAD! Price: £300…
Christmas Countdown Day 3 – Stans DART Tool and Refill
Welcome to Day 3 of our Big Giveaway, making sure we end 2020 on a high. Today, as with every day, you have two chances to win – either the daily prize, or the MEGASACK (Maximum Extra Good All Stuff Any Cyclist Kneads?) Let’s see…
Christmas Countdown Day 2 | The Kona Care Package
Welcome to Day Two of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today. Kona Care Package Price: £275 From: Kona…
Singletrack Podcast | The one where Chipps talks to Hans Rey
In this week’s episode Chipps take time to talk to Hans Rey across the Atlantic from his California home about what has kept his career going for so long. It’s a lesson in how to be a sponsored rider and make a lifelong career that…
Christmas Countdown Day 1 – Win Guy Martin’s Proper Cleaner
Welcome to Day One of our big Goodbye to 2020, Hello to 2021, Advent/Christmas/New Year Daily Countdown Giveaway. Today, as with every day in our GHACNYDCG, you have two chances to win. Let’s see what it is today – a Christmas pressie straight from Mr…
Win DMR V11 Pedals | We have 5 pairs to give away
Earlier this week DMR launched their new composite flat pedals based on the classic and very popular DMR Vault platform. Today, you have a chance to win a set of these pedals just by answering a simple question below. You can read all about the…
MTB Personality of The Year | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
Who has worked the hardest, raced the fastest (not much of that going on this year though), championed the most or just helped enable more of us to get out and ride. Whose presence has made your 2020 that little bit better – who has…
Best UK Trail Centre | Singletrack Reader Awards 2020
Which destination has it all? From the best trails to the best cake in the cafe afterwards. We are looking for the ultimate all-rounder. Think trails, facilities, location… Which centre gives more smiles per mile than any other and leaves you planning the return before…
Best Image | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
Singletrack Magazine has always prided itself on the quality of its photographs and the skills of its contributors. In a time where a truly incredible photo can appear in a media feed and be scrolled past after just a glance, we feel printed media is…
Best Author | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
Whose words switched something on inside your head that had you reaching for the kit drawer before heading out to get on your bike? Or was it a feature that made you think about some aspect of your riding in a different way? Whether it’s…
What’s Zermatter With You? Singletrack magazine issue 129
Emma and Carly head off to a different part of the mountains in their home-made camper. This time, it’s Zermatt and the Matterhorn that are getting all the attention. Only now, Carly does the storytelling… This feature was first published in issue 129 of Singletrack…
The Saga of Magnus | Singletrack magazine issue 131
A haphazard retracing of St Magnus’s last journey by bike seemed a fitting farewell to the island of Orkney. Somehow, Adam had neglected to tell his friend Jack that it would be 55 miles of tractless marsh.
Best Bike Shop | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
For that personal face to face service, this Best Bike Shop category is for the UK shop you visit and hand over cash to a person across a till. Which shop offers the whole package from smiles and expertise to the best deals, prices or…
Best Video | Singletrack Reader Awards 2020
A new category for this year, it’s Best Video. Did it make you laugh, teach you something, wow your eyes, or touch your soul? To qualify, it must have been published on YouTube during 2020, be free to view, and it needed to be about…
Best Bike Under £4500 | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
It’s that time of year when the best sub £4500 bikes duke it out to see which will take home the 2020 Singletrack Readers Awards. These finalists are all extremely capable machines, however which will take home the 2020 Singletrack Readers Award for best bike…
Best bike under £2k | Singletrack Reader Awards 2020
You shouldn’t have to drop thousands on a bike that will take a beating off road. Modern components are stronger and work better than they’ve ever done and increasingly the trickle down effect of the high end of the industry means we are riding bikes…
Best Hardware | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
Vote for your best hardware product in the 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards. Will be be Rockshox, Nukeproof or Shimano? It’s time to take on the most important vote of the year! No, it’s not between Trump and Bidden but between the mighty RockShox Zeb, Shimano…
Best Software | 2020 Singletrack Reader Awards
Software is all the stuff that goes on the rider, not the bike. It’s keeping you safe, warm, cool, dry, visible, and everything in between. We all have different requirements for our riding kit, but one thing we can all agree on is that comfort…
Singletrack Podcast | The why do we not stick to talking about bikes episode
Welcome to our weekly podcast. This week Hannah is back in the hosting chair and talks about the differences between plans and goals and recounts the time she went to the desert and it snowed on her. Following that Hannah has a chat with our…
Singletrack Podcast | The who wants to be an event organiser these days episode
This week’s episode kicks off with a chat between Chipps and Amanda on what it’s been like to get away from the local trails for a bit. Then Hannah steps in with an indepth interview with TweedLove organ grinder, Neil Dalgleish about just how hard…
Win a set of Ritchey 10D Rizer Bars
10D RIZER HANDLEBAR With a lifetime of experience of riding and winning on trails and racecourses around the world, the Ritchey tradition of designing ideal handlebars continues with the introduction of the 10D Rizer. Taking inspiration from the original XC 10D flat bar, this 800mm-wide…
FGF Podcast 511 | Recorder music, hardtail shortages and Hannah’s #vanlife
Hannah is back but she’s not really back. She’s roughing it the back of her van with love of her life Fahzure as she travels around Wales having riding adventures. So, it’s MC Mark once again standing in. This week we get a disturbing aural…
2 Bikes, 3000 Midges, 1 Puzzle | Fresh Goods Friday 510
Fact: 3000 midges makes a meal for a bat. This means that on Tuesday night there was enough food in Todmorden to feed every bat on earth (this is also a fact, but we have no evidence aside from Amanda’s legs). Does everyone have that…
Masks of Singletrack | Here’s how the staff are helping curb the spread of COVID19
This is a public service broadcast! Masks are now required to be worn in shops, on buses and trains and in the commission of bank robberies. Here at Singletrack we are taking that responsibility seriously – in fact we’ve been following a masks in the…
FGF Podcast 509 | Post Covid future of the Enduro World Series with Chris Ball
This week Hannah bends the ears of our very own Charlie and Chipps about their experience of organising events and what they think the future holds for the social side of mountain bike racing in a post Covid19 world. On the same topic Hannah speaks…
FGF Podcast 508 | Trash Free Trails & building a bike from only European parts
This week Andi talks to Hannah about the European Bike Project – a project to build a full suspension mountain bike from entirely European sourced frame and components. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But when you get down to the figurative nuts and bolts it’s not…
Podcast 507 | The rescued cow & Huhn Bikes mountain chicken episode
Andi chats with Ralph Holleis of Huhn Bikes about his inspiration and skills that have lead him down the path of combining art with bike building. Huhn is Chicken in German. Why chicken you might ask; “Getting dirty is fun, chickens live in the dirt,…
FGF Podcast 505 | Barbed wire hands and Chloe Taylor interview
This week Hannah grills Amanda about her recent incident with a barbed wire fence before Andi chats to Chloe Taylor about her life as a pro racer under lockdown conditions. Did you know she’s only been riding mountain bikes for 3 years?
FGF Podcast 504 | Jamie Knight, Lion And Being An Autistic Mountain Biker
This week the Singletrack podcast gang of Hannah, Chipps and Andi talk about the latest output from SRAM plus the weather. That’s then followed by a truly fascinating chat with Jamie Knight about being autistic and how that affects him as a mountain biker. You…
FGF Podcast 503 | Van Gals, Scottish MTB and news from Andi’s shed
This week Hannah leads the chat across the board starting with stars of the latest copy of Singletrack magazine, the Van Gals. We’d encourage you to answer the Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland Survey to help shape the future of their work, and also build…
Classic Ride 131 – Todmorden and beyond
With travel a little limited right now, we decided to give you a look at some of the lesser-known riding on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border above our Todmorden base. Words Hannah Photography Singletrack They say that Valley miles are worth double: the watershed landscape of the…
#Blackouttuesday
It shouldn’t need saying, which is why it absolutely does: As the editor of a mountain bike magazine - a hobby dominated by white, middle class people - I wanted to state that there’s no room in our sport, magazine, or world, for racism. Everyone…
Fresh Goods Podcast 497 | The Bike Connection interview and dangerous badger episode
It’s been another curious week for the Singletrack team – we have tales of long distance separation mixed with a dash of new kit and product news and all finished off with a look at the situation through the eyes of event organisers. Oh, and…
Classic Ride 130 – Bennachie Bash
A classic ride in the wide open spaces in the middle of Aberdeenshire. Words Gavin Baxter Photography Alex Doig The deep, dark winter can be a pretty bad time of year for getting out on a big ride. That’s especially true in Aberdeenshire, at 57°…