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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…

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…

Bike Check Banshee Prime

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...

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…

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...

Rocksled bike

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…

Kingdom G 600 gearbox

Bike Check: Kingdom G 600 Belt Driven Custom Titanium Hardtail

Graham Stock of Sixth Element hasn’t matched his bike to his Porsche – instead he’s had himself a rather nice custom titanium hardtail built, and of course added his own…

Podcast: Bowhead Corp – making bikes for life

A life changing spinal injury is one of those things that we really hope never happens to us – but as mountain bikers we know it’s a risk. When it...

How Does The Female Hormone Cycle Affect Cycling Performance? Part 1

Hormones, the ‘chemical messengers’ that tell our bodies what to do and when to do it, aren’t optional. We can’t turn them off, at most we can try to balance...

Interview: Making The Earthbound FS Bamboo High Pivot Bike

Building bikes with bamboo isn’t new, but this is a particularly lovely example of what you can do with a little time, patience and a whole heap of skill. Having...

wallet money

10 Reasons your bike will cost you more this year

It seems like there’s been a lot of bad news about price rises on bikes and components recently, so we thought we’d look at what’s driving it – and whether...

Editor’s Choice Awards 2020 – Hannah and Ross pick their favourites

First published in Singletrack Magazine Issue 134. It’s been a ‘special’ year, for sure, but the sun has continued to come up and bikes have still been ridden. We’ve perhaps...

Editor’s Choice Awards 2020 – Mark’s Picks

First published in Singletrack Magazine Issue 134. It’s been a ‘special’ year, for sure, but the sun has continued to come up and bikes have still been ridden. We’ve perhaps...

Editor’s Choice Awards 2020 – Chipps’ Pick

First published in Singletrack Magazine Issue 134. It’s been a ‘special’ year, for sure, but the sun has continued to come up and bikes have still been ridden. We’ve perhaps...

Editor’s Choice Awards 2020 – Andi’s Pick

First published in Singletrack Magazine Issue 134. It’s been a ‘special’ year, for sure, but the sun has continued to come up and bikes have still been ridden. We’ve perhaps...

Editor’s Choice Awards 2020 – Amanda’s Pick

It’s been a ‘special’ year, for sure, but the sun has continued to come up and bikes have still been ridden. We’ve perhaps not been to as many far-flung places...