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Internet Rummagings 3 – Other Materials Are Available

Welcome to this month’s edition of Internet Rummagings, where I rummage around in the more embarrassing parts of the internet, so you don’t have to! (for clarification, that’s weird and…

MTB Colour Collective: We Are Mountain Bikers – Maybe you are too?

If you’re a social media regular you may have noticed recent posts by a new account called ‘The MTB Colour Collective’, which is a new UK based movement aimed at...

Dieter Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead – Building Bargain Dirt Jump Bikes

Dieter is the kind of bike nerd mechanic that every good bike shop should want. He is endlessly enthusiastic about getting people of all kinds onto bikes of all sorts.…

Spotlight Interview: Digging Deep With Blake Hansen

El Jaskowska is a rider and passionate advocate for broadening participation in mountain biking. In this Spotlight Series, she is interviewing riders from all walks of life and styles of...

Bespoked weird gears

Internet Rummagings | The Pick Your Own Geometry Edition

Welcome to this month’s edition of Internet Rummagings, where I rummage around in the more embarrassing parts of the internet, so you don’t have to! (for clarification, that’s weird and…

Dieter Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead – Our bike shop doesn’t run like yours

Dieter is the kind of bike nerd mechanic that every good bike shop should want. He is endlessly enthusiastic about getting people of all kinds onto bikes of all sorts.…

JP Red Bull Rampage

Photo Story: Red Bull Rampage

This story looks even better if you’re a Singletrack Member. To view it with larger images and without ads, check out the Members’ Edition. This year marked 20 years since...

Photo Story: Red Bull Rampage – Members’ Edition

This year marked 20 years since the first Red Bull Rampage. Since the Singletrack staff were trapped on this side of the ocean, we asked USA based photographer JP Gendron…

How to buy a second hand mountain bike

Dieter is a bike mechanic at Happy Days Cycles in Sowerby Bridge, where he regularly revives donated bikes to sell to customers, or repairs customers’ bikes with parts retrieved from...

2021 Down Hill Season Review – A Gripping Year!

We’ve asked George to take us back through the 2021 DH World Cup, letting us relive the highs and lows, the dramatic finale, and already turning our thoughts to what...

Dunoon Dirt Dash

Surly Dunoon Dirt Dash or Bramble Bash?

Photography by Markus Stitz “If you sort of straighten one of your legs, push the bike upwards at the same time and immediately apply both brakes, you might be able...

The Tarpless Tour | A Celebration of Mountain Biking Friendships

Up and down the country, clusters of riding friends navigate their way round local trails and personal challenges. The bikes help them fall apart, and stick together. Stephan Fowler brings…

Dieter Back From The Dead

Back From The Dead – How To Fix A Broken Maxle

Dieter is the kind of bike nerd mechanic that every good bike shop should want. He is endlessly enthusiastic about getting people of all kinds onto bikes of all sorts.…

How do we improve the domestic XC scene? 

Hannah Collingridge has been enjoying some XC racing, but thinks there is room for improvement, and plenty of room for more riders. How can we make it a more attractive…

Internet Rummagings | Hubs, Brakes and Ti Curiosities

After so much time spent in our Forum, we felt that Tom Howard was well prepared to seek out the furthest niches of the internet. We’ve enlisted him to seek…

Behind the Build: Race Track Design with Léandre Alegri

It’s impossible to mishear the noise in the woods. A commotion growing bigger and coming nearer, the sound turns the heads of scattered spectators on its way through the terrain.…

Readers’ Rides: Tom’s Steampunk Deviate Highlander

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…

zoceli steel full suspension

Readers’ Rides | Anthony’s Zoceli Naosm 29

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 To Build A Pump Track – The Right Way

We reported a few weeks back on what we thought might just be the worst pump track in the UK – a new creation in Carlisle. In looking into what...

Behind The Build: Progression with Hannah Bergemann

A relentless sun is chasing the shadows back into their hiding. On an arid hillside a crew of people make tiny figures against a massive desert backdrop as they ascend…

What Car For Mountain Biking?

Hannah wrangles with the question ‘What car for mountain biking?’… and camping trips, and family holidays, and #mumtaxi… I do not like cars, or driving. I would happily live without...

5 Frame Bags For More Than Just Snacks

Amanda has been pootling around town with various frame bag solutions to see what shape and size work best. Here’s a few of the best on test! I have gradually…

Bikestormz: Where mountain bikes meet urban streets

Last weekend saw the Bikestormz rideout take place in London, with in excess of 2,500 young people (and some of their parents) taking part. The rideout started and ended at...

Red Bull Hardline 2021: Trackside Gallery

We took a walk down the Redbull Hardline track during race runs to try and catch some of the moments between the big features. Clouds of dust, shale flying, the…

Kade Edwards

Chatting Bikes, Hardline and Racing: Kade Edwards Interview

Kade Edwards. There’s a lot to be said about his talents. Only 21, and yet can turn his hand to pretty much every discipline there is. If it’s got two…

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...

Sundew nature MTB

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…