Chipps made a bet four years ago. Today it was time to reckon up and see if he’d won. It was also the final day of the show. Premier Subscriptions can be bought for £30/year (including the printed mag) – £15/year for digital only or…
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Premier Interbike: Thursday Randoms
A video diary from the inside part of the Interbike show plus a gallery of odd shots just for our Premier users. A Premier subscription can cost just £2/month and gets you access to not only these Premier stories but our entire Mag Archive of…
Premier Interbike 2011 – Devinci 1st Impressions – UPDATED
Jon took a Devinci Dixon and an Atlas 29r out for a rider around the desert. Here, for our Premier subscribers are his thoughts on both. UPDATE: Close up image gallery now added! A Premier Sub costs just £2/month via visa/debit card and you can…
Interbike 2011: Thursday’s Premier photo gallery
Some carefully hand-selected photos from Wednesday at Interbike for Premier users. These pics will be appearing on the main site shortly with some detail, but in the meantime, here’s a peek…
Interbike 2011 – Premier Video Diary 2
Just for our Premier users here’s Interbike 2011 Video Diary part 2 with Jon and Chipps’ highlights of day 2 in the desert.
Interbike 2011: Premier Image Dump 2
Here’s another load of photos that we’ve not had time to caption yet*, but you Premier users are sure to work out what it all is anyway. So enjoy! It’s 2.30am here and we have to be at the show in six hours If you’re…
Interbike 2011 Day 1 Premier Video (and a glimpse behind the scenes)
A brief introduction for our Premier users to what Interbike is about and some choice words from Surly (by which we mean some sweary stuff – so be warned! Keep the volume down if you are at work briefly – we’ve stuck a warning in…
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…
The 2012 Olympics Course – A Racer’s view…
Welsh Champion Lee Williams gives us his take on the 2012 Olympics course...
SRAM and Rock Shox 2012 at Pass’portes Du Soleil
New internally routed Rock Shox Reverb Stealth launches plus more detail on SRAM X0 DH
2012 Lapierre Bikes Launch: Spicy and Zesty
Revised Spicy and Zesty all-mountain bikes get Nico-tuned suspension plus slacker and lower geometry
Ride BMC Competition Winners!
In last week’s Fresh Goods we promised 15 lucky Premier Subscribers the chance to win some BMC goodies courtesy of the lovely Bert. Up for grabs were a load of BMC T shirts styled in a homage to hip-hoppers Run DMC and some rather nice…
Blame The Dog – Our First eBook
Mike Ferrentino has done everything in the bike industry from spanner in a workshop to editing one of the World’s most popular bike mags. He’s now working for Santa Cruz Bikes in the marketing department (Marketing being one of his most popular subjects on which…
A slice of life on the Iditarod Trail
Aidan Harding recounts his epic tale of 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness
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…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 66 ready for download
It's packed with extras and it's now available to read it on your computer or mobile device
A different (Mercedes Benz) World…
Jon spends a day out of the office geeking about cars rather than bikes
Online Feature: The iXS MacAvalanche
Sit down, relax; it's the long version of Jon's iXS MacAvalanche adventure
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…
Video: 661 Gravity Enduro Muddy Carnage
While the recent 661 Gravity Enduro at Ae went off with barely a hitch despite the damp and miserable conditions, the rain did make the Saturday’s seeding run a little bit tricky, with some of the freshly cut corners being a on the slippy side.…
New Orange Patriot?
While Jon was up at the iXS MacAvalanche he spotted a rather new looking Orange – in fact there were a couple of them kicking about, including the bike MTBCut.tv rider Joe Barnes won the event on. It’s stickered up as a Strange so it’s…
Exploding Camelbak Bladders
No, it’s not a product recall – during his recent visit to the Camelbak factory Chipps asked the test lab guys to demonstrate just how tough their bladders are* with a bit of compressed air. Especially for our Premier Users, here’s the video. Safe to…
Access All Areas: A Rights of Way Officer’s view – Part 2
Our discussion of the issues surrounding access in the UK for mountain bikers continues with the second part of an in-depth article from a Rights of Way officer, we talk about Local Access Forums, what they do, why bikers are under-represented on them and there…
Access All Areas: A Rights of Way Officer’s view – Part 1
A professional's view on the Right of Way system and how it relates to mountain bikers
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…
Premier: Sea Otter Image Dump #3
Here’s some more unedited bling for Singletrack Premier users only to dribble over. Full stories for regular users will follow as soon as we get a minute to write them.
Hope Technology Factory – A photo tour
In a world where mass production and economy of scale is king, where bringing a product to market seems to involves scouring a generic parts catalogue and the hard part of design comes down to which logo you’re going to put on it, there are…
Singletrack Issue 65 – Pass Storming in the Lakes
Last Month Benji, Matt and the Hairy One spent a long day in the lakes climbing four passes. Anyway here are TWO videos from the day (to be fair they’re quite similar but there’s been a lot of debate about music choices for this one.)…
2012 Magura Thor and Durin forks
We take our first look at Magura's revised Durin XC and trail fork plus the longer travel Thor
Interview: Mark Pearce, Evolution Imports
Marcus Farley and Tim Spickernell talk with the man that brings Yeti, Cielo and Chris King bling into the UK
2001… 2011… Beyond
Then. Now. Now then.
Singletrack go racing – Steel City DH Report
Matt, Benji and Jon headed to Sheffield for some Mini DH on the weekend, here's what happened
Online Feature: Voucher to ride…
Paul Cray has been pondering the strange economics of shopping to save - and wonders if that's really what it's all about
iXS MacAvalanche Preview Video
A video preview of the MacAvalanche course, exclusively for Premier Users
The ‘Puffer is tougher
Monty and the British Heart Foundation team headed to the epic Strathpuffer 24 hour race, much chafing ensued
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…
Industry Visit: Stif Cycles and Jungle Products
We have a look at the SC V10 Carbon (35lbs for a downhill bike!), get shown some pretty new frame colours and get a history lesson too
Shiny shiny syndrome
Technology is ace. Most of the time.
Interview with Solo Specialist Matt Page
The 24hr Race Specialist is aiming to cast his racing net a bit further.
Winter Riding Top Tips: Setup and skills
The second part of Campbell Coaching's winter tips and tricks to help you get out and ride in the snowpocalypse
Winter Riding Top Tips: Equipment
Bob from Campbell Coaching has been out playing in the snow and has a selection of winter riding tips to make the most of the cold snap
