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Readers’ Rides: Javi’s Pässila Ramäkkä

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to…

Bowhead RX

Bike Check: Bowhead RX – An e-MTB hand cycle

We’ve previously talked to Bowhead Corp founder, Christian Bagg, about the development of his Bowhead Reach bikes – e-assist trikes designed to make even some seriously gnarly mountain bike trails...

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Nature Nerds | Summer in the British Uplands

We’ve asked nature enthusiast and Trash Free Trails ambassador, Rosie Holdsworth, to write us a series of pieces highlighting the sights beyond the trail. Out of the wreckage of 2020…

Bark and Ride

Talking Trail Dogs with Bark and Ride

Trail dogs. Love them or hate them it seems. Some people are indifferent, some think they are a fashion statement. Whatever your feelings, they are here to stay. But what’s…

Anders Engberg

Behind The Build: Natural Trail Building With Adam McCoy

In this new illustrated series, Anders Engberg looks at the relationship between trail builders, the earth they work, and their views on riding. First up, we take a trip to…

Rider Gallery and Debrief: #JennRide 2021

The #JennRide is organised by Rich Munro in memory of our late Deputy Editor, Jenn Hill to raise funds for St Gemma’s Hospice. It’s quickly obtained a reputation for being…

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Sometimes Riding Really Freaks Me Out

I start to pedal, anticipating the ride ahead. My mind is quiet. I chat on the climb, everything is normal and I have no anxiety or worry, I’m just happy…

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Singletrack Whistler Video Diaries Episode One – Cream Puff And Bears

Chris Eyres is our man on the ground in Whistler. He lives there. Yes, we hate him for that too. In the winter Chris spends his days snowboarding the twin…

BeeLine Bike

Behind The Build: The BeeLine Bike

In a moment of internet idleness important journalistic research, we spotted this BeeLine Bike by Beehive Fabrications in Moab, Utah. Unable to enter the country right now or jump on…

10 Flat Bar Bike Checks: BC Epic 1000

As the riders prepare to set off on their 1000km ride around British Columbia, all eyes are on the weather forecast. Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your perspective) for you,…

BC Epic Bike Checks: the Ti, the Custom, the Vintage and the Homemade

The BC Epic 1000 is one of those long distance unofficial organised events in the tradition of the Tour Divide or Highland Trail 550. With this year’s Tour Divide disrupted by border…

Joe Custom Marino

Readers’ Rides | Joe’s Marino ‘Ultimate 40’

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to…

BC Epic 1000

6 Surly Bike Checks – Taking On The BC Epic 1000

The BC Epic 1000 is one of those long distance unofficial organised events in the tradition of the Tour Divide or Highland Trail 550. With this year’s Tour Divide disrupted by border...

Chris Porter

A Day With Chris Porter – Everything Is Connected, Except Us

Hannah and her partner – a paid up Geometron owner – visited Chris Porter for chat, coffee, a leafy ride, and a whole pile of setting the world to rights.…

BC Epic 1000

Bike Check: 10 Ways To Salsa the BC Epic 1000

The BC Epic 1000 is one of those long distance unofficial organised events in the tradition of the Tour Divide or Highland Trail 550. With this year’s Tour Divide disrupted…

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Readers’ Rides: Dan’s Banshee Prime

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to…

How Anyone Can Get A Job In The Bike Industry

It’s not so long ago that I was an outsider – I rode bikes, but beyond my local bike shop, Wiggle, and a few brushes with British Cycling, I had...

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The Singletrack World Issue 137 Quiz

Although we think the magazine is exciting enough that of course you’ll be ripping open the paper packaging and settling down to read it cover to cover, we know life…

Charlie Kelly Annapurna

Readers’ Rides | Charlie Kelly’s 1983 Ritchey Annapurna

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to…

Readers’ Rides Bike Check: Shia’s Production Privée Shan GT 935

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them…

Why You Should Discover The Joy of Singlespeeding

If you have dotwatched the latest edition of the Highland Trail 550 like me, you’ll have noticed that Liam Glen, the winner in 3:10:55 (days:hours:minutes) has done this amazing feat…

Readers’ Rides Bike Check: James’ BTR Ranger

What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them…

Readers’ Rides Bike Check: Andy’s Geometron G1

There are so many great New Bike Day threads on the Forum – often the result of other lengthy ‘What Bike?’ threads – that we thought we’d create the opportunity…

Gallery: In Celebration of The Group Ride

After a long spell, group rides are back in much of the country. In celebration of the joy that is the group ride, with its giggles, its slithers, its mechanicals...

10 Bikes of the Highland Trail 550

It’s the first event we’ve seen in a while and all those long distance riders must surely have the pent up energy of a spaniel that needs a wee. The…

Binners Has Axle To Grind After Ordeal

Demonstrating that age and experience are no guard against stupidity, Singletrackworld.com near-legend status Forum regular, Adam ‘Binners’ Rawlinson has had what some might describe as the most testing week and…

Is What3Words Really That Bad? Or Good? Let’s Ask Mountain Rescue.

Given the recent fuss about What3Words in the outdoor world, we thought we’d ask forum member and rider, Jon Bateman. Jon is a mountain biker and also an active member…

Wyatt Thompson

Riding DJ Brandt’s X Games Canyon Gap

For most of us, stumbling across a canyon gap would be something to be avoided, probably with plenty of dragging of the brakes, a careful keeping back from all edges...

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Interview: Rocksled Suspension – doing things differently

There are few things that please me more than spotting a curious bike being built by someone and getting to ask them about it. Unlike some that I’ve seen, this…

Zen And The Art of Buying Bike Parts

We now live in very challenging times for buying bike parts and accessories, and indeed bikes. Covid has kicked production in the plums, lockdown has turbocharged demand, Brexit has made…