The Finalists Mondraker Foxy XR 29 Orange Stage 4 Factory Santa Cruz Bronson Carbon C XO1 Reserve Voting instructions are at the end of this article. Read on to learn more about each finalist. Imagine for a second that you have unlimited funds, no mortgage,…
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Best Bike Under £4500 – Singletrack Reader Awards 2018 Finalists
The Finalists Bird Aeris AM9 Canyon Spectral CF 8.0 Cotic Solaris MAX XT Cane Creek Helm Voting instructions are at the end of this article. Read on to learn more about each finalist. If you’re shopping for a bike at this price point then you…
Best Bike Under £1500 – Singletrack Reader Awards 2018
Tough competition for the best of our budget bike picks this year. We have two extremely capable full-suspension bikes up against a versatile steel hardtail, all of which are designed here in the UK. The finalists Calibre Bossnut Evo Genesis Longitude 2018 Sonder Evol NX1 Recon…
Sportline 2018 Show: It’s all gone a bit Myst’y…
This week saw the Sportline 2018 show down in Milton Keynes. Sportline are the bike division of huge UK distributor Madison encompassing Saracen, Ridgeback and Genesis. While a lot of the ‘new’ bikes consisted of fancy new paint jobs, there were a few completely new…
Best Software: Singletrack Reader Awards 2018 Finalists
The Finalists BELL Super DH MIPS helmet Julbo Renegade Glasses Specialized 2FO 2.0 Shoe Voting instructions are at the end of this article. Read on to learn more about each finalist BELL Super DH MIPS helmet Price: £249.99 From: ZyroFisher The BELL Super DH MIPS is…
Best Hardware – Singletrack Reader Awards 2018 Finalists
We’re in sync people! The 3 final nominations for the Best Hardware Award, chosen by you, are 3 products that we all love here in the office too! Thank goodness you guys have the final say though, knuckle dusters and old handlebars are being brushed…
Video: Red Bull Hardline 2018 – Course Preview
If you’re still experiencing vertigo after checking out our gallery, then perhaps don’t watch this course preview. Gee Atherton manages to talk his way down this course, which combines downhill with freeride with lunacy. This year’s course combines the iconic road gap jump with some…
Gallery: Red Bull Hardline 2018 – The Warm Up
It’s Red Bull Hardline this weekend. As the name suggests, riders will be taking it in turns to swoop down a hillside on a trail punctuated by gaps which many of us would assume were whole sections of trail that had yet to be built.…
MTB World Championships 2018 – One To Have Watched
Through the miracles of modern technology, it is now pretty easy to watch the MTB World Championships wherever you are in the world, giving riders and fans an excuse to get together for a bit of a party to cheer on the action – even…
Last Chance To Nominate! Singletrack Magazine Reader Awards 2018 #STRAW18
The Singletrack Reader Awards are awards given to a bunch of deserving individuals and companies by you, the readers. The awards are split into two phases. First comes the nominations round and then all registered site users will get the chance to vote on the…
Yeti SB130 – Forget Longer Travel, This Is the Yeti You Need
It’s only been a few weeks since we brought you news of the new Yeti SB150, and here we are with another new bike from the Abominable Snowpeople of Colorado. But if you thought the SB150 was more bike than you need, then perhaps this…
Dirt, Total Women’s Cycling, RideUK owners file for Voluntary Liquidation
Reported by Bikebiz, news has broken over the weekend of the voluntary liquidation of Factory Media Ltd, owners of multiple sports media brands including Total women’s Cycling, Dirt, RCUK and RideUK. Accountants, Chamberlain & Co, have been appointed to oversee the liquidation. While the Factory Media…
The Rampage – Prepare For The Zombie Apocalypse, Raise Money For Charity
We’ve all seen the zombie movies where people find themselves running through a concrete multi storey carpark. Up they run, in and out of pillars, up, looking side to side for exits, up and up until the inevitable roof top finish arrives and the eating…
Look At These Customised Saracen Mysts Heading To The World Champs
Three Madison Saracen riders will be heading to the Downhill World Champs at Lenzerheide this weekend, and to mark the occasion they’ve all been given new custom painted Saracen Mysts. So, perhaps Matt Walker won’t be needing that one we saw at Fort William anymore…
First Look: BTR’s Brazed-on Steel Brake Lines. Taking Integration To Another Level.
Michael Braybrook caught up with Tam from BTR to quiz him about his prototype, integrated brake line, hardtail. Tam and Burf of BTR Fabrications quickly made a name for themselves in 2012 with the release of their bold genre-busting Belter frame featuring some pretty outrageous geometry figures, even…
EWS Rider Jared Graves Diagnosed With A Brain Tumour
Sad and shocking news this morning. Specialized rider, Jared Graves has been diagnosed with a brain tumour. The EWS rider is currently in hospital and will undergo surgery within the next 10 days. The following text is from Jared’s Instagram; “Some news of the not…
BLUEGRASS LEGIT Carbon Full Face Helmet Now Official
We saw a lot at Fort William this year, but one item that managed to remain under our radar was the prototype carbon BLUEGRASS full face helmet. We blame the fact that UR Polygon, the team running the secret lid were all on secret bikes and…
GoPro Hero 7 Leaked In White, Silver And Black Variants
Guess what the new GoPro action camera is going to be called? If you guessed anything other than “GoPro Hero 7” then you have a lot more imagination than the people at the action camera maker. Now, any ideas what it’s going to look like?…
Twiddle My Joystick, Is This The Last Fresh Goods Friday Of Summer? – FGF 411
We’re a little worried, the weather is turning, it’s getting colder, we’ve received winter clothing in the mail. Is this really the end of our glorious weather? Is this the last Fresh Goods Friday of Summer? Let’s not dwell though, instead feast your eyes on…
All You Need To Know About The 2019 Scott Ransom
When Scott unveiled the brand new 150mm travel Genius platform last year, there was a suspicious absence of the long travel version. That seemed a little odd, because the Genius LT has been a very popular model for Scott over the past six years. As…
Spied: Sunn Kern Will Get 29in Wheels And A New Carbon Frame In 2019
If you have been involved in mountain biking as long as we have then you’ll remember French cycling brand Sunn, but if not here’s what you need to know. Way back in the day Sunn was a bike brand force to be reckoned with. Not…
Sick Bicycles High Pivot Gearbox Bike Receives 70% Funding In A Matter Of Hours
Today the 180mm enduro bike edges closer to production with a, so far, successful Indiegogo campaign that has secured 70% funding in just a few hours.
Pivot Cycles Breaks The $11,000 Barrier With Fox Live Valve equipped Pivot Mach 5.5!
Pivot Cycles is the first bike brand to send over a press release announcing it’s bikes with Fox’s new Live Valve suspension system.
Fox Live Valve Launches, but what is it?
After years of behind the scenes work and glimpsed prototypes, the Fox Live Valve system is finally ready to be released to the world. Around the time you read this, bikes with LiveValve fitted will be heading towards bike shops around the planet. But what…
Two bikes, some round things, some sticky stuff, and a key – It’s Fresh Goods Friday 410
Amanda is curating Fresh Goods Friday this week. Let’s see what’s in store… Am I actually the last person in the UK that’s still running tubes in my tyres? This week I’ve been riding to work, rain or shine. Wind or… not wind. It’s not…
Cycling UK: Government law review ‘ignores the main cause of road danger’
Here at Singletrack we’ve been following Government policy on cycling because most of us don’t just ride off road – we ride on roads to get to trails, work, the shops – and our loved ones do the same. Bez has written extensively on road…
Exposure Joystick MK13 Now Available In Carbon Fibre!
Carbon fibre is everywhere, from frames to rims and even fancy seat rails on uber expensive saddles. Carbon is now finding its way into the light market with UK brand Exposure announcing the release of the Joystick MK13 with lightweight carbon body. Exposure says the…
New Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt Alloy Launched. A Whyte T-130 Killer?
Following on from the release of the Instinct Alloy 50 BC Edition earlier in the month, Rocky Mountain has revealed the launch of another all alloy bike in the form of the new Thunderbolt. This 2019 version of the Thunderbolt rolls on 27.5in wheels with…
Hope Pre Peaks – 70km of cake-fuelled cheeriness through the Dales
It wasn’t a surprise to the weather pessimists among us that the one day you need clear, calm weather to go and enjoy 85km around the Yorkshire Dales, you get the tail end of a tropical storm, with all-day mizzle and winds. However, that didn’t…
Mountain Mayhem Announces Lower Pricing For Early Birds: UPDATED
UPDATE SATURDAY AM: Following the rider feedback after the original press release (below) the organisers have returned with a rethink on pricing and have gone for an, ‘ain’t broke don’t fix’ approach by returning to the same pricing structure as the last 2017 event. They’ve…
Wash Your Bike, Save Tweedlove Trees And Trails
Tweedlove organisers have issued a statement urging riders to clean their bikes and kit before and after riding in the Innerleithen area, following the discovery of a disease which kills larch trees and will necessitate the felling of many trees in the area. We’ve heard…
Poll: It’s #CycleToWorkDay – Why Don’t You?
Today is Cycle To Work Day in the UK, and we’re all being encouraged to try riding to work. Yes, you all ride mountain bikes (if you don’t, how did you get here?). But we wonder if you ride to work? And if you don’t, why? [poll…
Curtis Has Made Frames Since 1979, Now It’s Launching Its First Complete Bike
Curtis has been manufacturing steel bicycle frames in the UK since 1979 and has made everything from BMX race frames, and hardtail downhill race bikes, to 160mm travel single pivot Enduro bikes over that time, but it’s only now, in 2018 that the company has…
Downhill’s Most Outspoken Pro: Amanda Batty Announces Retirement
If you follow Amanda Batty on social media, you’ll be well aware that a few weeks ago she crashed and injured her lower leg in ways that are not only leg threatening, but life threatening. Having just undergone another round of major surgery to install…
UK Gravity Enduro Announces Cancellation. BEMBA Steps Up With 2019 National Series.
Coming so soon off the euphoria of the successful running of the ‘Ard Rock Enduro last weekend, the UK enduro scene was greeted this morning with a sad announcement from Steve Parr, the man behind the UK Gravity Enduro Series, where he announced that the…
GT Fury Downhill Bike Returns!
Today, GT Bicycles has announced a new GT Fury downhill bike. Taking design and suspension cues from the complete revamp that the rest of the trail bike range (the Force and the Sensor) has had, this sees GT take on a more conventional-looking (and riding)…
What Did You Do On Your 40th? Alan Horton Started A Bike Brand
If you had wanted to start your own bike brand just a few years back you might have looked into complex moulds, carbon layup or simply outsourcing manufacture to the Far East, all quite expensive prospects. The recent popularity of steel bikes, both hardtail and…
Spied: Sonder’s 29er Full Suspension Bike Edges Closer To Production
At the start of this year, we managed to take a trip out to the Peak District with the chaps from Sonder and ride a few of their current bikes. While we were with them we also had the chance to check out a prototype…
Limited Edition Raleigh Chrome Aero Pro Burner Coming Autumn 2018!
One of the hottest bike launches last year wasn’t some exotic carbon full suspension bike costing a £ bazillion, it wasn’t even a mountain bike, nor was it new. Cast your mind back to July 2017 and you may remember that Raleigh announced plans to…
A hundred grand for a bike rack? That’s what Tailfin has raised in a week
A Bristol-based company has just launched an innovative rear luggage rack on Kickstarter and has seen it raise nearly a hundred grand in a couple of days. The Tailfin rack mounts to a rear skewer (even thru-axles, but more of that in a minute) and…
Top 10 Kids Bikes 2018: Stop Playing Fortnite And Start Shredding Dirt!
There really hasn’t been a better time to get your kids into mountain biking, or cycling in general. More and more bike brands are designing quality bikes for young riders that handle like proper bikes, come with kid-friendly components and don’t weigh the same as…
Kona Finally Announces Carbon Process 29ers For 2019
It was only a matter of time really before Kona released a carbon version of the Process 29, so while it’s exciting news that they have done so it’s hardly surprising news. The Process 153 CR 29 is new to the Kona Process range for…
Affordable Rocky Mountain Instinct Alloy 50 BC Edition Revealed
At the start of the year, we tested Rocky Mountain’s Instinct BC Edition, featuring a carbon frame and lively paintwork. We loved the fact that the longer travel bike managed to remain fun and playful on the trail and we liked that fact that Rocky…
Giant Launches All-New Trance 29: A Mid-Travel Trail Smasher?
The Giant Trance 29 is pegged at the type of rider who wants to head out on an epic all day ride, one day, then hit an Enduro stage the next. It’s an all-rounder, and although it’s labelled as a “Trail” bike, Giant is keen…
So that’s where all of the country’s carbon enduro bikes (and T5 campers) went this weekend? The Ard Rock Enduro!
The ‘Ard Rock Enduro once again showed that it has become the event of the year for trail riders to be at. With a greatly expanded event village and a large number of events for racers and riders, there was plenty going on and plenty…
Bagging points… #MakingUpTheNumbers at the HSBC National Champs 2018 – Glencoe
George Thompson has sent this picture-heavy epic report from the other weekend’s National DH champs up at Glencoe… Sit back and enjoy! “Oh, so you’re still going to Glencoe then?” “Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?” If you’re feeling the pressure, answering a question with a…
Entries still available for the Hope Pre Peaks Yorkshire Dales
The Pre Peaks is a grand day out in the Yorkshire Dales courtesy of Hope Technology.
8 Bikes From The 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12
Of the hundreds of competitors that turned up for the 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12, there seemed to be just as many different bikes. Singlespeeds, fat bikes, full suspension enduro bangers, retro rigs, clapped-out 26in bikes with v-brakes, lightweight carbon hardtails and high-end kids bikes all mixed…
Review: Dakine Hot Laps 5L Waist Pack
There are a few things I swore I wouldn’t do when I got at job at Singletrack. Wear a gilet, ride clipped in, and use a hip pack. So of course, I’m working my way through this list to become more open minded, and hopefully…
We Interview 13 Of The Most Outgoing Dogs At The Pivot TwentyFour12
It’s the middle of summer and we’re currently camped out at the Pivot TwentyFour12 event in Newnham Park in Plymouth. This is the 13th edition of the TwentyFour12, which has grown a reputation for not only its flagship 24-hour mountain bike race, but also numerous…
Go on board for a course preview of the Pivot TwentyFour12!
This weekend, Newnham Park in Plymouth will play host to the 2018 Pivot TwentyFour12. This is the 13th edition of the event, which encompasses a whole host of races and events centred around the main 24-hour mountain bike race. There are kids races (both time…
