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Mountain Bike Crossword Week 3: Trails and destinations
This week’s theme focuses on riding locations and trail types, featuring a subscribers-only puzzle with a prize.
Forest Of Bowland route guide: free GPX download
The Forest Of Bowland doesn't have many trees, but it does have hills.
Reader’s Ride: Andrew The Spanner’s Whoops Apocalypse
Have a gander at this hub-geared ti bride designed for riding into the hills when WW3 hits.
Mountain Bike Crossword Week 2: How well do you know your tools?
We’ve slipped a few cryptic ones into the grid to make you actually think.
Reader’s Ride: Andy C’s Yeti Big Top
You don't see many of these around. And not just because this one doesn't get ridden enough.
Crossword: Challenge yourself with our latest crossword on the theme of bike parts
Exercise the one part of you that won't overheat: your brain.
Reader’s Ride: Dean’s Whyte E150 RS
This week's featured steed is a dream bike and suits the type of riding in the Chiltern Hills.
Todmorden, Hebden Bridge & Beyond route guide: free GPX download
Benji brings the route guide back from the dead with two Calderdale loops and a top-five descents and disgusting climbs.
Reader’s Ride: Pete F’s MeteorWorks
Let's all take a moment to gawp at this perfect & lighter than expected brazed-on beastie.
North Pennines route guide: free GPX download
Arguably the most remote route guide we ever published.
Reader’s Ride: Will’s Cube Stereo Hybrid 177
Say hello to a firm and fast skill compensating Cube with a recalled crankset.
Light Carbon LCFS980 ultra-cycling bike check
Here we have a Light Carbon LCFS980; a model name so catchy we're just going to call it the Green Machine.
Reader’s Ride: Dan’s Surly 1×1
Have a quick nosey at this very comfortable green machine sent in by a clueless idiot.
Reader’s Ride: Tracey L’s Specialized Turbo Levo
Say hello to this four year old S-Works eeb that finally needs a new rear tyre.
Outta The Archive: The Second Singletrack Classic Weekender from 2010
The Second Singletrack Classic Weekender was bigger and better – and harder than before…
Reader’s Ride: Dallas M’s Marino Gemstone
Kicking off a radical Monday with a playful sense of discovery and toy-like nostalgia bike.
Reader’s Ride: Matt B’s Clandestine Combe
Check out Matt B's best friend of a bike made by his actual best friend.
Reader’s Ride: Stuart M’s Stooge Dirt Ti Tracker
Time for a bit of dirty dropbar pre-gravel action with this 54in(?) Stooge Tracker.
Outta The Archive: Hans Rey In Hebden from 2016
Chipps profiles this popular rider’s reinvention from competitor to adventure rider to personality and brand ambassador.
Reader’s Ride: Mark S’s Commencal Meta AM
Have a nosey at Mark S's 5ft8in 73kg Commencal Meta AM from 2021.
Reader’s Ride: Adam R’s Orange P7
An oldie but a goodie for this week's RR. Have a nosey at this Orange Pie 7.
Reader’s Ride: CitizenLee’s Orbea Rise LT H10
Chocolate eggfest can't stop Reader's Rides: here's a not-Levo-heavy eeb with an outdated motor.
Reader’s Ride: Josh M’s Specialized Stumpjumper Pro
Here's one of the nicer looking modern MTBs. Who doesn't love a bit of neon pistachio?
Reader’s Ride: Pietruszka’s Cotic Soul 27.5
Kicking off the week is a perfectly messy steel machine from 2018
Reader’s Ride: LMTTM’s August Cycles Big Blue
Another entry that we dug out of our back end, so to speak.
Why is racing Enduro so expensive?
We ask a race organiser to explain the situation and discuss the future of the UK Enduro scene
Reader’s Ride: Dez B’s Transition Throttle
This submission fell down the back of our server sofa but it's still well worthy of RRing!
Outta the Archive: Ibis Ripley review from 2001
You won't believe the ride (probably because you won't believe it'll work at all...)
Reader’s Ride: John B’s Maverick ML7.5
Here is John B's modified URT Maverick that still puts smiles on faces, even after 20 years.
Outta the Archive: DIY Framebuilding SOS from 2006
Fish Out of Water: Bicycle Plumbing from Issue 28, May 2006.
Reader’s Ride: Matt L’s Rocky Mountain Instinct
Here is Matt L's heavily discounted but satisfactorily heavy alloy Rocky Mountain Instinct
Outta the Archive: Organic Mountain Biking from 2006
Are manmade trails the saviour or scourge of mountain biking?
Contributor Bike Check: Aran’s 2020 Giant Reign
Six years old and ridden within an inch of its life, this 2020 steed refuses to die. Despite Aran. Bike model & year? 2020 Giant Reign 1. Bought six years ago from Ride-On bike shop in Rawtenstall and ridden extensively since. What size is this…
Reader’s Ride: Dave M’s Stanton Switch9er FS Ti
Here is TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR's long-fancied Stanton Switch9er FS Ti
Reader’s Ride: Kevin H-R’s Pipedream Moxie MX3
This week's RR is Kevin Harley-Roberts and his Long Pink Panther
Outta the Archive: Singletrack Room 101 from 2015
Some bikes, people, components and habits need to be cast into Room 101. Mark is judge, jury and executioner.
Reader’s Ride: Andrew B’s Orange Stage Evo
Continuing this season of Reader’s Rides, here’s Andrew Brown's never-weighed just-ridden Orange Stage Evo
Outta the Archive: Sheffield City to the Peak District and back in a day
Chipps tries to keep up with professional fit blokes Simon Richardson and Nick Craig as they leave the city and head for the Peak.
The Big Freeze: Issue 164 bonus gallery
Markus Stitz swapped the chill of Scotland for the deep freeze of bikepacking in Norway in the depths of winter.
Reader’s Ride: Tops 5’s Hope HB.916
Kicking off this season of Reader's Rides, here's the mysteriously named Top 5's non-noisy Hope HB.916.
Outta the Archive: Cycling is a selfish and narcissistic pastime
Benji muses on his last two weeks of independent, dependent living.
Members’ Crossword Generator: give us a clue
If you fancy yourself as a crossword creator then have go at this
Staff Bike Check: Mark’s 2020 Norco Sight
Ye olde 2020 Norco Sight A2. If it ain't broke. Run what you brung. Etc.
Staff Bike Check: James’ Deviate Highlander II
Check out Mr Vincent's more-playing less-monstertrucking Deviate Highlander II.
Things I’d quite like the bike industry to stop doing now please
Getting a few things off my mountain biking chest
