The Intrigue Advanced is the new all-mountain trail bike from Liv (the women-only offshoot of Giant Bicycles). It first appeared in 2014 and disappeared from the line-up in 2016 when…
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First Look: X-Fusion TRACE 36 HLR Big Travel 29er Enduro Fork
X-Fusion is looking to boost its big wheel Enduro credentials with its latest 36mm fork, the TRACE 36. You may have already seen this fork in Fresh Goods last week,…
First Look: Mondraker Foxy 29
We were a little sad when we had to say goodbye to our bright red Mondraker Foxy RR test bike a few weeks ago, but we can barely remember what…
First Ride Review: Merida’s New 2019 One-Twenty Trail Bike
Merida has recently launched a brand new One-Twenty trail bike for 2019. Featuring 120mm of rear suspension travel, a 130mm travel fork, and 29in or 27.5in wheels, the One-Twenty is…
Eurobike 2018: Pipedream has a new titanium Moxie
UK brand Pipedream Cycles brought out the Moxie hardcore hardtail just under a year ago, which wowed onlookers at Eurobike with its hyper-pink paint job and uber long geometry. Long…
Lone Bicycles Beretta Sticks A Middle Finger Up At Standards
Lone Bicycles is a new French mountain bike brand owned and operated by the same people behind HXR, those clever chaps who invented the Easy Shift system. The Beretta is…
Eurobike 2018: New Shimano & Giro shoes, ropey spokes, and a heavier Orange
Swedish brand Thule is expanding its range of hydration backpacks for mountain biking, and chose Eurobike to debut its new Rail series. Available in 8L, 12L and a 12L Pro…
Surly’s Lowside doesn’t have suspension, carbon fibre or 13 gears, but that’s why we love it
Who the heck needs 13-speed when you’ve got a fully rigid singlespeed klunker with 26×3.0in tyres? That’s how we feel about Surly’s Lowside – a bike that is basically the…
Exclusive First Look: Ritchey Brings Back The Ultra!
Some 30 years after the original, Ritchey is bringing back the Ultra! Though this one is a little different from the last one… Although Ritchey is technically releasing this bike…
First Ride Impressions Of GT’s New Force and Sensor
Chipps reports back after a couple of days of riding on GT’s newly launched trail bikes. Over the course of a couple of days I had a chance to ride…
Hayes has a new brake called the Dominion A4, and it looks superb
It’s been a little over 20 years since Hayes entered the disc brake market with the original HFX-Mag. Though there were other brands offering disc brakes at the time, it…
Take that SRAM & Shimano – Rotor goes 1×13 with HUGE 10-52t cassette!
Rotor Components has shown off a brand new 1×13 drivetrain, which includes an enormous 10-52t cassette! SRAM already has its 12-speed Eagle groupsets with XX1, X01, GX and NX, which…
Testing Formula’s new Selva R fork and those funky Neopos volume spacers
Two years ago, Formula introduced its first Boost compatible suspension fork called the Selva. We’ve tested and reviewed one already, and it’s an absolutely brilliant fork with a tonne of…
The New Bronson Is So Good It Might Kill Its Sibling, the 5010
After a too-short afternoon on both bikes, Chipps gives us his Santa Cruz 2019 5010 and Bronson first impressions… A week or so ago, I got a brief chance to…
First Ride – WTB introduces new Vigilante, Trail Boss & Judge tyres
WTB has got some brand new tyres and rims to show off, so we sent our resident rubber nerd, James Vincent, down to Bikepark Wales to see what he thought…
First Look: Motion Ride E18 Linkage Fork
The chances are pretty high that you either own or have ridden a bike with front suspension. It’s also extremely likely that your suspension fork (or the one you’ve tried)…
Trek Powerfly LT e-MTB gets beefed up forks, battery and wheels for 2019
Last month Mark was whisked off to the Swiss spa town of Bad Ragaz to get a first look at the 2019 Trek Powerfly LT 9 e-MTB. After a day…
First Look: Sonder Signal Ti 29er
Alpkit’s Sonder bike brand has been shaking up the cycling market for a few years now with good quality bikes, at attractive prices. We’ve ridden a few of Sonder’s bikes…
First Look: Sick Bicycle Co. Titanium DFA And A Look At The Future
If you were to think of a young startup brand that knows how to hit the hype button in the right places you might look at a tech brand from…
First Look: Commencal Meta AM 29 Team Edition
Commencal sent teaser images of the Commencal Meta AM 29 a few weeks back, and we’ve since spotted the big wheel bike in action on the Enduro World Series. But…
Vaughan Evans’ Nasty Orange 329 Prototype 29er Downhill Bike
And we mean ‘nasty’ in the good kind of way. Orange first showed a prototype 29er downhill bike at Eurobike last year, which was originally labelled up as the ‘Strange…
Spied: Miranda Miller’s Prototype Specialized 29er DH Bike
If you’ve been keeping a close eye on our coverage from this year’s Fort William World Cup, you will already have seen a couple of spy photos we took of…
First Look: Commencal Meta TR 29 British Edition
After circling the Fort Will event village for the 100th time we thought we had seen it all, but out of the corner of our eyes, we spotted this British…
We Get Our Grubby Paws On Shimano’s Brand New 1×12 XTR Groupset
Shimano XTR M9100 may have only launched a week ago, but already the 12-speed groupset has been making waves amongst the global mountain bike media and on internet forums everywhere.…
Trillion Unveils New Shug Steel Hardtail At Fort William
Shown on the first day of the 2018 Fort William World Cup, the Shug is an all-new steel hardtail from Trillion Cycles. Joining the Prime hardtail (a bike we tested…
9 Prototype Bikes Spotted At Fort William 2018
Being just the second round of the 2018 Downhill World Cup, there are still new and prototype bikes popping up that we haven’t yet seen in the flesh, and seeing…
Pole Machine 200 Prototype First Look
Pole, the Finnish mountain bike brand, is up at Fort William this week racing a brand spanking new prototype downhill bike. And it’s rather special indeed. We’re all pretty well…
First Look: Shimano Introduces 12-Speed With XTR M9100
They’ve only gone and done it! That’s right, Shimano has finally gone 12-speed in one of the most anticipated moves of the millennium. While SRAM has been dominating the drivetrain…
On Test: 3 UK-Made Full Suspension Bikes
We’ve been working on something special for the upcoming issue of Singletrack Magazine, and we think a lot of you are going to be very interested in this one. Oh…
First Ride: 2019 Cannondale F-Si and new Lefty Ocho fork
It was obvious really that Cannondale would choose a World Cup venue and race weekend to launch its new flagship XC hardtail and super, dooper new and improved Lefty fork.…
First Look: 2019 Cannondale F-Si – skinnier, more comfortable and faster than before
This week, whilst Britain was finally getting to enjoy some glorious spring weather, Cannondale launched the 2019 F-Si XC hardtail at the Albstadt World Cup in rather wetter and muddier…
First Look: The all new Cannondale Lefty Ocho suspension fork. It’s a Lefty, but not as you know it
The historians and fans amongst us will already know that the Lefty has been around for almost 20 years. For those of you who didn’t, you probably just feel a…
Alutech Cycles: a drop bar enduro bike, and a bike designed by committee. Eh?
Dotted amongst the big brands’ bike livery at the Garda Bike Festival were several smaller German and Italian companies proudly showing their wares. And none caught my eye more than…
6 New Products You Never Knew You Needed: Garda Festival 2018 Roundup
Garda Bike Festival has reached the ripe old age of 25. Whilst it may not be as big as its European brother Eurobike and misses out to Core Bike in…
Garda Bike Festival: SRAM and RockShox 2019 Roundup
SRAM was out in full force at this year’s Garda Bike Festival with an amazing array of bouncy and stoppy-go-y-ness. For once SRAM wasn’t launching any new products or upgrades…
Garda Bike Festival Highlights: First Look – Felt Compulsion 1
Last weekend’s Garda Bike Festival saw the launch of the new Felt Compulsion full suspension enduro bike. You rather needed to pay attention though, Felt didn’t so much announce their…
First Look: Abus MonTrailer Enduro helmet
This weekend’s Garda Bike Festival finally saw the long awaited release of the Abus MonTrailer helmet and I was the lucky one who got to go out to the Italy…
This Australian made hardtail uses 3D printing to make its exquisite steel frame
Part of the international contingent who turned up to the UK Handmade Bicycle Show on the weekend, Mark Hester from Prova Cycles made a very long trip over from Melbourne,…
Want to carry a chainsaw, Jagermeister and a BBQ on your ride? Portus Cycles’ steel utility bike is for you!
Looking for a way to raise the bar on the #coffeeoutside movement? Searching for the ultimate utility vehicle for your trail building ambitions? Well, we might have found the perfect…
Exclusive! New 1×12 Drivetrain From SunRace!
Well here’s one package that we didn’t expect to turn up today! It’s a collection of new shifty bits from Taiwanese manufacturer SunRace, which assembled together, give you most of…
First Look: The UK-Made Robot R-Zero Carbon/Titanium Hardtail
Bespoked 2018 was held over the weekend at the Engine Shed in Bristol, where as per usual it provided small, independent bike and accessory companies the opportunity to show off…
Carbon Shmarbon – Pivot Cycles releases new alloy Switchblade
To kick off the pre-Sea Otter onslaught, here’s a brand new alloy version of the Pivot Switchblade. Sharing the same geometry, suspension travel and 29/27.5+ wheelsize adaptability as the carbon…
Shimano’s Deore XT M8020 4-piston disc brake is here! Plus, confirmed weights & UK pricing
Shimano has some new 4-piston stoppers for 2018, and they’re sliding into the range at the Deore XT level. Rather than being a replacement for the current XT 2-piston brakes…
Found! SunRace has a new 12-speed MZ90 11-50t cassette
Adding to its growing line of value-oriented wide-range mountain bike cassettes, SunRace has recently unveiled a brand new 12-speed option called the MZ90. This new cassette will be available in…
Hunt Bike Wheels heads off-road with the new sub-£350 TrailWide wheelset
We’ve just got our hands on a brand new wheelset from Hunt Bike Wheels, which is due to be available to the public very soon. Up until now, Hunt has…
Yeti’s new SB100 features a Switch Infinity suspension design like you’ve never seen before
Yeti-lovers get your wallets ready; there’s a brand new full suspension 29er in town, and it’s called the SB100. Deviating from Yeti Cycles’ current naming structure, the SB100 is labelled…
First Look: The Marzocchi Z1 Bomber Returns! Own The Trails Again…
One of the most iconic mountain bike fork names has returned, and it’s doing so in a typically unapologetic fashion. Yes, after an absence of many years, the Marzocchi Z1…
A throttle for your mountain bike? Not quite – it’s the new RockShox TwistLoc. Plus, new 2019 SID forks!
Today RockShox is releasing the 2019 SID fork range, which includes new World Cup, RLC and RL models. The 32mm chassis’ are largely unchanged for the new model year, but…
Do you like it raaaaw? Check out our new Commencal Meta Trail V4.2 Race test bike
If you’re a subscriber and supporter of Singletrack Magazine, there’s a very good chance you’ll already have your hands on a copy of the latest issue, which has just come…
Get a look at this gorgeous UK-made steel full suspension bike from Swarf Cycles
We have very good news for those of you who appreciate locally-made steel mountain bikes. We have just received a new, and very unique full suspension bike in from Swarf…