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Women On Wheels - WOW - is a new cycling event aimed at women being staged at 7stanes Kirroughtree Trail Centre, Dumfries and Galloway, on Sunday 17th May 2009 as part of the Original Bicycle Festival 2009.

The press release says things like '...launches Worldwide Centers of Excellence Strategy' but the reality is that Cannondale's parent company has decided to stop making frames in the US and move production to Taiwan with the loss of 200 jobs at its Bedford PA factory...

Chub hubs with high flanges give you decreased spoke stress and build a super strong wheel.

Kiwis Clean Up at Sherwood Pines. Here's Jenn O'Connor's rather gripping report on the women's Elite race at last weekend's BC round one.

The Easter weekend's three-day Handlebar Festival, which kicks off on Friday 10th April at Hawkstone Park, Shropshire, is set to be a scorcher with plenty of handlebar-related, high-adrenaline action and lots to see for all of the family.

A stern reminder for councils to keep their roads in good repair? Or another symptom of the increasingly sue-happy society?

Sign up now for the first Singletrack Classic Weekender at Lee Quarry, Lancashire.

Why do we get the exclusives? Because we have the best coffee in the industry, that's why.

Our multi-discipline solo-bike event that’s happening on the weekend of July 4-5th is attracting interest with gathering pace. A lot of folk with piqued interests have been asking what the “Downhill” discipline will be like.

Demands by pro riders for better visibility for wet and overcast races has led to the development of Giro's 'clearest lens ever' for their Havik model.

As featured in Benji's nostalgic "Homecoming" feature in the current issue of Singletrack, Gisburn Forest now has a great looking future as well as rose-tinted past.

The brand name for the product developed by his Shedfire Design company will be known as "tweak bikes" - Richards said this afternoon.

Singletrack is stepping up to sponsor the successful 'Big Welsh Weekend' event that runs on the last weekend in May. Come and ride or race with us and with much faster types like Roel Paulissen who'll be racing both days, including the British Marathon Champs…

The clocks go forward and racing is back, it's round 1 of the British XC series on Sunday April 5 at Sherwood Pines. This will be the first of 5 rounds across the country with the best riders taking part in all ages and ability…

Mountain bikers, horse riders, walkers and landowners are being invited to have their say about public rights of way at a meeting organised by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) next month.

Starting today, Rob Lee of the Iron Horse Extreme race team will, as the second part of his 7ds project, attempt to pilot his Iron Horse MK 111 through all 7 Red-graded trails of the 7Stanes in the Scottish Borders, and also ride between each,…

Shed Fire's first bike, the Ragley, pops round for coffee and brings a pirate along too.

The best (and only) film about the birth of mountain biking finally has a trailer to give you an idea about what's in it.

This means that in just two days time you could be swinging your leg over demo bikes from Turner, Intense, Lapierre, Cove and Rocky Mountain before heading out onto some of South Wales’ finest trails.

Fresh from their team gold in the Downhill at the BUSA championships, Mountain Bikers from the University of Manchester took on Sir Chris Hoy on Monday. The challenge was to try and beat the Scottish track rider’s max power output of 2,000w. The weapon of…

This time Chris is lending thoughts to razzing around on springy bikes.

Every now and then it pays to be on so many random companies' mailiing lists...

Gisburn Forest has genuine potential to be a very fine place indeed. Labour is the main thing required at the mo. Volunteer yourself and pop along and help turn this amazing amount of potential into reality.

We've stuck another route guide in the Singletrack Online Trail Guide. Riding the lesser known (and less visible) bits of the Yorkshire Dales near Settle.

Over 200 riders turned up for a memorial ride and 'two minutes of noise' to celebrate the lives of the two young downhillers killed in a car accident earlier this year. £1000 was raised in the charity auction and raffle too.