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Santa Cruz Highball Alloy – First Ride

We take a closer look at the affordable aluminium brother to the Highball 29er hardtail There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND…

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Santa Cruz Superlight 29 – First Ride

We’ve headed to Sedona to ride the big wheeled brother of the classic Superlight There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE…

The Bike Place 2012: Liteville, Tomac and Carbon Ti

Germanic efficiency from Liteville, Italian lightweight bling from Carbon Ti and Tomac\'s new racey big wheeler

The Bike Place 2012: Santa Cruz and Isaac

The revamped Santa Cruz Blur LT, carbon fibre bling from Isaac and a hot branding exercise

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SRAM 2012: Rise 60 carbon wheelset first ride

Plus look at alloy rimmed Rise 40 and tuning options on Monarch Plus air shocks

Interbike 2011: Rocky Mountain

Sleek hardtails and a completely redesigned Element, now with big wheels

Kona 2012: Entourage, Operator, Honzo 29er (with pics!) and more…

We check out the latest bikes from Kona, with new gravity models, all mountain bikes and big wheelers. Now with Honzo pics

Teva Shoes Launch the Links

The watersports shoe specialist invited us to the launch of their new freeride flat pedal shoe, the Links

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Marin 2012: Quad Link 3 released, bouncy 29ers and more…

New range of 29\" wheeled bikes plus the longstanding Quad suspension design gets a radical makeover

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Whyte Bikes 2012: ultimate 146, T-120 tweaked plus new 29er and ‘cross models

Long travel 146 gets blinged up edition, slack \'cross bike and large wheeled hardtails land

Trek World 2012: Superfly 100, Rumblefish and more.

Here’s some more from Trek World in the lovely Austrian town of Mayrhofen… Rumblefish With 120mm of DRCV-controlled travel front and rear, the 2012 Rumblefish aims to convert existing 26”...

Trek World 2012: Remedy, Slash, Fuel and Hybrid Air

Sim and Jenn have seen the future - new freeride, downhill and ladies bikes plus much more

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SRAM and Rock Shox 2012 at Pass’portes Du Soleil

New internally routed Rock Shox Reverb Stealth launches plus more detail on SRAM X0 DH There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND…

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2012 Lapierre Bikes Launch: Spicy and Zesty

Revised Spicy and Zesty all-mountain bikes get Nico-tuned suspension plus slacker and lower geometry There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE…

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2012 Lapierre Bikes: all-new X-Flow

All new 120mm travel trail bike introduced with Pendbox suspension system from Lapierre DH

2012 Shimano XT Launch: M780 drivetrain, pedals, and wheels

Chainset gains a double option, shifting goes Vivid, pedals split into Trail and Race plus new wheelset options

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2012 Shimano XT Launch: M785 Brakes

Our first ride on the new XT groupset, starting with the new XTR-alike brakes

First Ride – New Yeti SB-66 Trail Bike

Yeti has a new 6in travel trail bike out; the SB-66. It looks simple, works complicated and rides great.

Santa Cruz UK launch – 4 more bikes for 2012

So just before deadline we headed up to the rather cosy Dog and Partridge at Tosside to see the new 2012 next-year offerings from Santa Cruz. No Powerpoints in stuffy...

Premier: Sea Otter Image Dump #3

Here’s some more unedited bling for Singletrack Premier users only to dribble over. Full stories for regular users will follow as soon as we get a minute to write them.…

Sea Otter: ‘Shimano’ Electronic Shifting for MTBs

Not from Shimano though, from Ki2Bikes who chop up Dura Ace stuff for you.

Sea Otter: 29er Stuff

Here’s a tie-together of many of the 29er bits and pieces we saw around the Otter. We’ll visit many of them again in future stories, but this is where we’ll...

Sea Otter: Random Roundup #2

New Blur XC-C, belt drives, 29ers from Ritchey, Intense and Charge, plus more!

Premier: Sea Otter Image Dump #2

More unedited shots from the Sea Otter for our Premier users… There\'s more to this story... BUT IT\'S A MEMBER-ONLY STORY.JOIN US TO UNLOCK IT AND MORE FOR LESS THAN…

Interbike 2010: Niner, Revelate, Voodoo and 661

29ers, hot lids and the funkiest stem we\'ve seen for years...

Interbike 2010: Point1 and NS Billet

A couple of smaller companies at the more rugged end of things.

Interbike 2010: Poc, Royal, Formula, The Hive (e13) and more

It’s taking a while to get through all our shots from Interbike. Here’s another 50 or so. There are still plenty more where they came from. So, without further ado,...

Trek 2011: The new Top Fuel

Just before Interbike, Trek Bikes kidnapped Chipps and bundled him into a van, releasing him several hours later in the high mountain resort of Brian Head, Utah. The reason was...

Interbike 2010: Accessories, lights, locks, bars, cameras, colours

The first of many reports from the indoor bit of Interbike.

Interbike 2010: KS, Crank, Salsa, Knolly and more…

Noel and the team at Knolly have been busy. They have a brand new model, the Chilcotin, and finally have production models of the Endorphin SL that we showed you...