Steve Makin reviews a big lad\'s bike with shonky brakes, skinny tyres, dodgy bars, a very racy saddle and no gears. Possibly the most fun bike he\'s ridden in years.
It\'s back. More fresh goods from Salsa, Dakine, Royal Racing, Bontrager, Torq, Tektro, Vredestein, Lifeventure, Orange, Outland and Red Bull Rampage...
Your bi-weekly update on what\'s arrived here at Singletrack HQ with products from Rido, Brooks, Royal, Kinky Bikes, Genuine Innovations, VeloSolo, Cane Creek and Yeti.
Lizard Skinz Blizzard Gloves Price: £28.00 From: www.2pure.co.uk A winter glove with neoprene trimmings over the knuckles and round the cuff but despite the neoprene this glove is water resistant...
The Altura Whinlatter Challenge is the 1st mountain bike cross country endurance event to take place, on THE ALTURA TRAIL on Sunday, March 29th at Whinlatter Forest Park, near Keswick.
More new stuff? You bet. Take a look at what\'s landed at Singletrack HQ so far this week with products from Cube, NS Bikes, Charge, Ortlieb, Exped, Panaracer, Bontrager and…
Lifesystems Mountain Thermal Bag Price: £9.99 From: www.lifesystems.co.uk It may not be sexy and you’ll probably never have to use it but this metalised polyester based survival bag should be...
Ortlieb Medium First Aid Kit Price: £13.69 From: Lyon Equipment www.ortlieb.com Having a First Aid kit and the knowledge to use it should be something that every mountain biker has....
Sealskinz Technical Mountain Biking Glove Price: £37.50 From: Sealskinz 01553 817990 www.sealskinz.com These winter gloves are the highest spec mountain biking glove in the Sealskinz range, they are waterproof, breathable...
Jimi Wallet Price: £12.00 From : 2pure www.2pure.co.uk The Jimi Wallet so the marketing goes is the wallet for people that don’t do wallets. It’s a classic I-generation product. (How...
Foes FXR 2:1 Price: £1,849 frame only From: Balfa.co.uk The Bike The 6in travel ‘aggressive trail’ FXR has been part of the Foes line-up for the past few years. This...
Benji and his crack squad of sad rubber sniffing tyre obsessives try to convince you of the myriad splendours of a bunch of funny looking fat tyres with bugger-all knobs…
Scott Spark 10 Price: £3799 or £1949 frame only From: Scott 01670 712129 There’s no doubting that this is a machine made for going a long way fast. The cockpit...
We’ve rounded up an even ten boots – from rugged summer numbers to depth of winter monsters and given them a thrashing.
Fully rigid steel singlespeeds, eh? Nice looking and everything but a complete nightmare to write a review about. Well, a review that isn’t full of quasi-mystical gibberish about ‘purity’ and…
The bikes for the next issue are nearly all in now, so here’s a quick peek at some of the machines that’ll be out on the hills this weekend… So...
Come and visit the Pace Demo and Exhibition at the Dalby Forest Visitor centre. On display will be the full range of 2009 Pace frame models as well as 2009...
The weekend of mountain bike and running mayhem is set to return on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26 this year at Catton Hall, Walton-on-Trent, near Tamworth. It will be...
Singletrack Now Published 8 Times Per Year Rather than cutting back or downsizing, Singletrack Magazine is bucking all the current “credit crunch” trends and increasing its productivity for 2009. It...
Create a FREE private and secure portfolio of all your personal property (bikes, ipods, phones, laptops and so on can all be registered). If it is then lost or stolen, use Immobilise...
According to a BBC report, parts of Cannock Chase are closed to walkers and riders because of the spread of a fungal disease among plants there...