A brief introduction before I start

A brief introduction before I start

Claire breaks her Blogging duck.

Belgian Slant…

Belgian Slant…

Chipps goes to Belgium and Holland to watch a World Cup cyclocross race.

Need To Ride. Have To Ride. Won’t Ride.

Need To Ride. Have To Ride. Won’t Ride.

"Bike-Polar Disorder"

Inner Nerd Comes Out

Inner Nerd Comes Out

I've always thought i was a bit of a geek.. well I know i'm geek - I'm far to excited by waterproof materials and the the weights of tents and…

My or Our Bike Workshop….What is best for Mountain Biking Couples?

My or Our Bike Workshop….What is best for Mountain Biking Couples?

I’m probably not going to make myself any friends here, but it’s time for a whinge!

New Year + New Plans

New Year + New Plans

What do you plan to do in 2010?

Yes Snow. No Snow.

Yes Snow. No Snow.

There are two types of British mountain biker.

Downsizing

Downsizing

Fewer bikes? What? There must be another way

Holiday Time

Nathan says goodbye for 2009 and contemplates excess

“There Is More To life Than Increasing Its Speed.” UPDATE!! Part 2

“There Is More To life Than Increasing Its Speed.” UPDATE!! Part 2

"A sage man indeed, other than driving cars far to many miles far to fast to one meeting after the other , the rest of me seems in some kind…

Home For Bikes

As you no doubt appreciate, when looking for a house it had to be bike-friendly.

Kate Potter Begins Her Singletrack Blog

THE FIRST OF THE FIRST... good biking adventures!

Epic Inspiration

Bicycle + ST Forum advice = Adventure

I love winter!

It's odd I bitch for the whole year about its arrival, but without fail something about this time of year triggers my riding gland into some final end-of-year spurt of…

Best Bits Oh Nine

How was it for you?

FEAR

Have you beat the fear?

Premier Accounts – The future of publishing?

It’s a bit of a long one this.. Sorry Premier Accounts are our answer to the growing and rather worrying trend in the publishing industry for people to stop buying…

Cyclocross = cheap, fun cycling

A quick look at the other end of the cyclocross scale...

Cyclocross = expensive, fun, pain.

'It will have been great' - describes most cyclocross racing, reckons Chipps

Decision Time

I gave up last week. Never again

Bike Shufflin’ Time

Benji's bikes' complete normality is about to end.

Dark nights, dark beer, lasting memories…

OK, so we do bang on about it a bit, here at Singletrack: the fact that you need to keep riding through the winter, whatever the weather. And we do…

Road Rage

Nathan's got his goat in a twist

Happy New Year!

We’re currently in the process of working out what we’re doing throughout 2010. Route guide destinations, bike test themes, feature ideas, interview candidates, group tests, travel articles. This involves taking…

A Friday Vid for you

A good parcours video to help you while away the afternoon.

And now it’s my turn…

Issue 53 has gone to the printers and Chipps and team are happy.

There’s a mechanic in the house

Nathan gets his ride altered.

It Never Rains

Well, obviously it does. But it never rains when I need it to. For the next issue of Singletrack I’m sorting out a group test of jackets. Ever since I’ve…

Show’s over = Autumn

Chipps is back from Vegas and looking forward to some murky weather.

Fresh Blood

Singletrack's new crew member

Road Is All The Rage

A beginners guide to road bikes

Way Down In The Valley.

I’m currently enjoying a few days of release from the office and a bit of time at home and more importantly – local riding! The Valley is an odd and…

Changes

I’ve shaved my beard off. Not really sure why I shaved it off. It just felt the right thing to do. There was nothing wrong with the beard. I liked…

Gurt Big Hills

Chipps muses about those really, really big mountains you find on the Continent.

Orange Bits

Tales from my travels to Halifax with sneak peeks of new stuff and cake.

Eurobike – Ja for schure!

See what I did there up above? Did you see what I did in the blog before I went away? Yes it was stereotyping. In a way it’s funny because…

How far away are they?

After a day of mucho rainio and excellentio trailsio yesterday on the hills above Irun…….imagine technical, rocky Lakeland trails and you’ll have a good idea of the type of riding…

El Scorchio Notio

Dias Uno in El Bigio Brotherio Housio! Arrived late last night to the rural B and B in an old converted farmhouse to find what seemed like a concerningly large…

Working hard in a Basque

Just arrived in Basque Country to stay with www.basquemtb.com. It’s me and Sanny here. Last time we both went on a biking trip together we were in Austria and it…

Back To School

I spent the Bank Holiday weekend up in Swaledale with my other half (who’s a teacher) enjoying the last few days of the school holidays. When you’re a pupil the…

‘Tis Done

Issue 52 was sent off to the printers last night. Nice work Sim “Moonlight” Mainey! It’s been a particularly difficult issue to do due to various people being unavailable to…

Oh the irony

So a week ago we retreated up to Austria from Slovenia due to the combination of high temperatures and high humidity making riding just a little bit too much hard…

Sausages.

I’m out of the office tomorrow. I realised as we came back from Morzine that my passport had literally days left and if I’d have been there a few days…

GREEN! My New Long Termer

Now that the Genesis Alpitude has been finished with it was time to get another Long Term project in. And after a LOT of deliberation here is what I’ve gone…

It’s 11PM and I’m not at work…

…but I am working. I’ve just written up my One Ton Weekend for issue 52, in which Singletrack, both us office folk and Singletarck forumites, build a pump track. It’s…

You Had To Be There (Or Maybe Not)

This issue is on The Plan as being the “Interview” issue. For such an apparently straightforward feature they always seem to end involving a surprising amount of work/hassle – both…

Trust Folk

Hello all, Just had a weekend away with my Missus in Dartmoor. Lying around in a tent, reading a Complete Saturday Guardian, beer, wine, barbecue, mild sunstroke, the usual stuff…

Words done, van packed. We’re outta here.

You can’t beat a good deadline rush even though it’s early this issue thanks to the efficiency of Sim and Ben at the helm. Finished words for the next issue…

Home Turf

Last week I was in Morzine on the Singletrack Readers’ Week holiday with FlowMTB. And it was fantastic. After a while off the bike due to one thing or another…

Issue 52: Update

AKA the Ben & Sim issue.. right then, words and pics are beginning to trickle in. I’ve tried to chase up some words from folks and hopefully by the end…