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Hold on to your pants. This is boggling – and gives you loads of moments where you see just how gnarly the Hardline course is, even on the bits in between the obvious giant obstacle bits. Here’s the full PR before we get to the…

What do you do when you sell your bike company – known best for its bike packing rigs designed to go round the world?Steven Shand, formerly of Shand Cycles, has been spending some of his time advising on the development of Intra Drive‘s gearbox powertrain,…

Golden leaves, crisp frosts, atmospheric mists… or slippery brown sludge, cold fingers, and endless murk. What will October bring? The only certainty is that it will bring Issue 151 of Singletrack World. This will soon be heading to the printer, so that it can land…

Back in 2011 a 4×4 truck was abandoned for the second time at the summit of Yr Wyddfa (Commonly known as Snowdon) in North Wales for the second time despite there being no access road. It was an illegal act and was roundly condemned by…

This year’s Red Bull Rampage riders have been announced, with a couple of surprises. With Semenuk elsewhere, the field is well and truly open for a new winner. Will Gee Atherton have the bag of tricks necessary to duke it out with youngsters like Jaxson…

We are very pleased to welcome back Chain Reaction as our forum partner. Partnerships like this are really important to us as they help us maintain and develop the site but we are looking forward to much more than just a financial relationship with Chain…

Cycling UK has issued a press release saying ‘‘Depressing’ new figures reveal urgent funding boost needed for government to achieve cycling targets in England.’ The latest statistics show that there has been a 5% decrease in cycling across England since last year. In the same…

This week sees the Trash Free Trails 2023 Summit, and if you’re quick you can register to view the proceedings online. There are still a few in-person places up for grabs too, if you fancy a quick trip to North Wales. It’s free to attend…

We're just past halfway through this year's brave new world of Downhill World Cup racing. How has it been for you?

Press Release by Chain Reaction Cycles: Mega by Day, Mega by Night, a short film that embodies everything that’s epic about the world’s most chaotic race. Filmed at the iconic Megavalanche event in Alpe d’Huez, Chain Reaction partnered with Cut Media for the gruelling shoot.…

... new Mycle The Cargo, Esker x MRP Colab and something called the 3D Mountain Bike Configurator!

Autotrader… it’s where you look for a car, or van…right? Well, it’s now also where you might look for an e-bike. This seems interesting, whether you think this is terrible news, or fantastic. Let’s ponder it… On the one hand, if Autotrader is moving into…

The mountain bike action continues this week with the Cross Country element of the World Championships. Here’s your quick guide to following the action. You can follow the events on live timing here. MTB Cross Country Schedule and BBC Coverage Tuesday 8th August – Short…

August’s issue of Singletrack Magazine is here! It’s a leap forward in technology from ye olden days, 150 issues ago, but at its heart it remains the same. Stories and articles designed to make you grin, roll your eyes in wry recognition, or just inspire…

A live, watch along style race report for you… We’re watching along on Eurosport/GCN… let us know what the commentary is like because we can’t hear it in the pub! Here’s the start list. We’re underway… it looks… sunny? Despite the sun, we can’t help…

To mark the UCI Cycling World Championships in Scotland, there are a number of World Bicycle Relief fundraisers happening. Some of them have some amazing prizes to be won. It’s not 100% clear… we’re told they’re mostly replicas rather than the actual bike ridden by…

A live, watch along style race report for you… We’re watching along on Eurosport/GCN… coverage is poorer than we’d hoped. We’re seeing the start gate, and the finish line, and very little in between. Perhaps the result of having some fast protected riders setting off…

Update 1pm 4th August: Flippin heck, Rachel is nails! She’s put down a qualifying run, which is enough to get her through to finals tomorrow. Both Rachel and Nina Hoffman were protected riders, meaning that as long as they put a run in for qualifiers,…

Protect Our Winters is a climate change campaign group perhaps better known to snow sports enthusiasts, but with a year round remit to raise awareness of the impact of climate change. As the UCI Cycling World Championships gets underway in Scotland, it’s launching a new…

The ban on wild camping on Dartmoor has been overturned, following a successful appeal to the High Court by the Dartmoor National Park Authority and Open Spaces Society. This reinstates the right to camp without landowners’ permission, and overturns the judgement previously made in favour…

We’re not going to skew your answers, because, science… so let’s jump straight into the questions. There aren’t any repeats, but there are some similar questions – that’s deliberate. Try to answer them instinctively, rather than going back and changing what you said in light…

Something new is here! The Singletrack World Women’s Forum is now live, so come on in and join us. As a little extra incentive, we’re also giving Women’s Forum members a free download of Singletrack Magazine Issue 147. Here’s where we explained last week a…

It’s been a weekend of wet events up here in the north of the UK, so this week’s crossword is on that very theme. Events that is. Not rain. Although we could probably come up with an assortment of very British descriptors of type of…

... Trek Fuel EXe in Alloy, Privateer DJ101 and a perfectly Pink Process X from Kona. It's all of this week's most-interesting bike launches!

Usually the argument for buying something as high end as a Chris King component goes something like ‘it’ll last much longer than anything else’ – but when was the last time you wore out a coffee tamper? On receiving this press release, Singletrack Towers erupted…

Red Bull Hardline, the gnarly and consequential Downhill race located in the Dyfi Valley on a track designed by Dan Atherton in 2014, takes place this weekend, 15/16 July. It will see the defending champion Jackson Goldstone lining up alongside a strong field, aiming to not…

OK, we admit, we’re basically running this story because of this: Who doesn’t want to go and ride on a giant supermarket checkout in the hills? We are INSPIRED. Can you turn your bike upside down and change a tyre on the move before you…