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Opinion
Rants, opinions and general observations from the wide ranging smorgasbord that is our pool of editorial contributors. The usual stuff about what gets said in here isn’t necessarily the view of Singletrack blah blah.
A fairy farewell
As some of you may already know, today is my last day at Singletrack Towers 🙁 I await the arrival of my new baby boy and embark on my new business venture in arts & crafts, which is all very exciting for me but I…
What’s in your sack jack? Part one.
With another extended cold spell predicted and forecast snow for the weekend, Dave looks into his winter bag
Monday Morning Debrief No.3
And just how awesome was this weekend? Sun, blue sky and hard frozen, fast riding trails...
The Monday Morning Debrief No.2
This weekend was all about the local, riding straight from the doorstep and as it turned out alone. Dave gives his Monday Morning Debrief.
The Monday Morning Debrief No.1
In the first of our Monday Morning Debriefs, Dave fills us in on what the weekend held for him and a group of friends in Swaledale...
Megavalanche Virgin no more…
A belated blog on Mega-virgin Jenny's experience at the biggest mass start enduro race in the world...
Subs Deals – What are we playing at?
Mark tries to explain why we offer freebies to new subscribers and what it is we are trying to achieve
Diary of a Megavalanche Virgin Part 3: Win some, lose some…
Well it’s been a while since my last blog and mixture of progress and epic fails.
County Contrast
Work Experience Ben has done a ride! He tells us how he felt and how it compares to his local riding.
Diary of a Megavalanche Virgin Part 2: Skills Time
It's time to get the skills to pay the bills - or at least to prevent any serious glacier based incidents
Green’s Gravity Enduro: An introduction
Our new gravity enduro correspondent would like to introduce himself...
Diary of a Megavalanche Virgin Part 1: A hill in Wales
Jenny's never raced a mountain bike - what better introduction than the Megavalanche then?
New Year – New Bike!
I’ve always been a bit of a cyclocross fan (despite there being a spot fine for even mentioning it aloud in the office). I’ve race the Three Peaks three times in the last 15 years and I’ve done local ‘cross races on and off throughout…
Temperature Regulation
There’s one thing that the last couple of years of odd weather has meant to me – not the thought that we’ve broken the planet’s weather; that’s not in doubt – but it’s the far more trivial poser of ‘what to wear?’ It used to…
Premier Interbike: Mark’s Blog
Interbike is over and we are just killing time for a day before we fly back to the UK. For Chipps this was Interbike number 17, for Jon it was his first. I’ve now done three. Vegas is an amazing city, but don’t let the…
Interbike: surely I’ve got the hang of it now?
This is my 17th Interbike - and I've yet to master it...
Hope you’ve not missed me too much!
Hi all, Well I’m counting down the days. It’s my final week of being a lady of leisure. Looking forward to being back in the office and seeing everyone again. The ten months have flown since I handed over the Subscription reigns to the wonderful…
Other people’s trails
I reckon 98.5%* of my riding is done on trails in a 20km radius of where I ride, because we’re lucky that locally there’s enough variation and quality of riding that justifying travelling out of the valley seems pointless. That same variation and quality…
Guest Blog: Ally at the 661 Gravity Enduro at Kielder
Round two of the 661 UK Gravity Enduro in Kielder came about really quickly for me, I got a new bike (Transition Covert) from the guys at UK importers Surf-Sales only a few days before the race plus we’re also straight off to Vancouver for…
A different (Mercedes Benz) World…
Jon spends a day out of the office geeking about cars rather than bikes
Guest Blog: Ally at the 661 Gravity Enduro at Ae Forest
We’ve got Ally from Campbell Coaching to give us her thoughts and impressions as she races her first full season of the 661 Gravity Enduro. She’s no stranger to enduro racing tough, having taken part in the Mega Avalanche in years past: Enduro style racing…
A NEW START LINE….
WHERE DO I START……my golly gosh I’m well over due in the blogging department. Since returning from guiding and coaching in Portugal it has been full steam ahead in the AQR guiding, coaching and riding department in more ways than one…plus there is a new…
2001… 2011… Beyond
Then. Now. Now then.
Indulging a passion
I’m off on holiday next week – going to visit the girlfriend’s parents in Germany, but first – we’re going to be going to Belgium. Yep, we’re off to see some cyclocross! I did exactly the same last year, and wrote about it in our…
Shiny shiny syndrome
Technology is ace. Most of the time.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MR POTTER!!!
Xmas is just around the corner, but before the Xmas tree is decorated Mr Potter and I have to celebrate our wedding anniversary. Today we Potters have officially been married for 7 years….we could ignore this special date in Potter history, well Ian could, but…
Greek Tragedy
You’ve probably heard all about the recent theft of Singletrack bikes and a laptop. We were feeling pretty ‘hang dog’ about it all, and to make the tragedy worse, all the photos and video material from a riding trip to Greece were on the laptop.…
The Site got Updated
A list of things to look out for: Obviously the theme has changed somewhat. The ad-bar at the top means Premier users lose that completely if they reduce the ads. The black bar at the top, the “user bar” has a dropdown menu with links…
A Wheely Good Ride…
Since returning from Canada and the World Champs Mountain Bike experience the Potters have been busy as ever on the AQR guiding front. Ian is starting to feel the effects from not only guiding full time this year and taking up more of the work…
It’s a crazy place, but I’ll miss it…
Chipps says goodbye to 12 years of Interbike (and exploding fountains) in Las Vegas. Next year, LA.
I’m Back
19 weeks and 5 days have passed since that day. Today I went back out on my bike for a proper ride. I awoke to a beautiful day, the sun was shining, there was a cool crispness to the air and I knew I had…
Eurobike Survival Guide.
If you don’t have to go to places like Eurobike for a living and you’re a bike nut, I guess you could be envious of myself and Chipps. The reality though really isn’t that much fun – Eurobike is massive!! 13 halls, all the size…
Here again with my non bike/ride related blog and no chickens either I’m afraid :-(
Hope everyone is well. It’s been a while and with it being quiet today, with just little old me on my own while Tom1 is on hols, Mark riding in Morzine, Tom2 festivaling ( a word you may not find in the dictionary, but I often like…
This could affect you, archaic browser user.
It’s been coming up for 2 years since the great unexpected new site and forum incident of Christmas 2008. In that time we’ve been tweaking the site here and there, and leveraging in the Premier system. But the time has come that we need to…
Blurry Trio
The last three days have been a blur. The transition from Carlisle to Slaidburn was one of the most incredible cycles of my life, with no exaggeration. The ride was by no means the longest we’ve taken part in, but with regards to duration and…
A Brief History of Lime…
Christ on a bike. What an interesting few days… Scotland is finished. Done. Dusted. No more. At around half past three this afternoon, we pushed through Gretna and over the border. All well and good I hear you say. Very bittersweet though – just a…