There are two types of British mountain biker.
Opinion
Rants, opinions and general observations from the wide ranging smorgasbord that is our pool of editorial contributors. The usual stuff about what gets said in here isn’t necessarily the view of Singletrack blah blah.
Holiday Time
Nathan says goodbye for 2009 and contemplates excess
“There Is More To life Than Increasing Its Speed.” UPDATE!! Part 2
"A sage man indeed, other than driving cars far to many miles far to fast to one meeting after the other , the rest of me seems in some kind…
Home For Bikes
As you no doubt appreciate, when looking for a house it had to be bike-friendly.
Kate Potter Begins Her Singletrack Blog
THE FIRST OF THE FIRST... good biking adventures!
Epic Inspiration
Bicycle + ST Forum advice = Adventure
I love winter!
It's odd I bitch for the whole year about its arrival, but without fail something about this time of year triggers my riding gland into some final end-of-year spurt of…
Best Bits Oh Nine
How was it for you?
FEAR
Have you beat the fear?
Premier Accounts – The future of publishing?
It’s a bit of a long one this.. Sorry Premier Accounts are our answer to the growing and rather worrying trend in the publishing industry for people to stop buying…
Cyclocross = cheap, fun cycling
A quick look at the other end of the cyclocross scale...
Cyclocross = expensive, fun, pain.
'It will have been great' - describes most cyclocross racing, reckons Chipps
Decision Time
I gave up last week. Never again
Bike Shufflin’ Time
Benji's bikes' complete normality is about to end.
Dark nights, dark beer, lasting memories…
OK, so we do bang on about it a bit, here at Singletrack: the fact that you need to keep riding through the winter, whatever the weather. And we do…
Road Rage
Nathan's got his goat in a twist
Happy New Year!
We’re currently in the process of working out what we’re doing throughout 2010. Route guide destinations, bike test themes, feature ideas, interview candidates, group tests, travel articles. This involves taking…
A Friday Vid for you
A good parcours video to help you while away the afternoon.
And now it’s my turn…
Issue 53 has gone to the printers and Chipps and team are happy.
There’s a mechanic in the house
Nathan gets his ride altered.
It Never Rains
Well, obviously it does. But it never rains when I need it to. For the next issue of Singletrack I’m sorting out a group test of jackets. Ever since I’ve…
Show’s over = Autumn
Chipps is back from Vegas and looking forward to some murky weather.
Fresh Blood
Singletrack's new crew member
Road Is All The Rage
A beginners guide to road bikes
Way Down In The Valley.
I’m currently enjoying a few days of release from the office and a bit of time at home and more importantly – local riding! The Valley is an odd and…
Changes
I’ve shaved my beard off. Not really sure why I shaved it off. It just felt the right thing to do. There was nothing wrong with the beard. I liked…
Gurt Big Hills
Chipps muses about those really, really big mountains you find on the Continent.
Orange Bits
Tales from my travels to Halifax with sneak peeks of new stuff and cake.
Eurobike – Ja for schure!
See what I did there up above? Did you see what I did in the blog before I went away? Yes it was stereotyping. In a way it’s funny because…
How far away are they?
After a day of mucho rainio and excellentio trailsio yesterday on the hills above Irun…….imagine technical, rocky Lakeland trails and you’ll have a good idea of the type of riding…
El Scorchio Notio
Dias Uno in El Bigio Brotherio Housio! Arrived late last night to the rural B and B in an old converted farmhouse to find what seemed like a concerningly large…
Working hard in a Basque
Just arrived in Basque Country to stay with www.basquemtb.com. It’s me and Sanny here. Last time we both went on a biking trip together we were in Austria and it…
Back To School
I spent the Bank Holiday weekend up in Swaledale with my other half (who’s a teacher) enjoying the last few days of the school holidays. When you’re a pupil the…
‘Tis Done
Issue 52 was sent off to the printers last night. Nice work Sim “Moonlight” Mainey! It’s been a particularly difficult issue to do due to various people being unavailable to…
Oh the irony
So a week ago we retreated up to Austria from Slovenia due to the combination of high temperatures and high humidity making riding just a little bit too much hard…
Sausages.
I’m out of the office tomorrow. I realised as we came back from Morzine that my passport had literally days left and if I’d have been there a few days…
GREEN! My New Long Termer
Now that the Genesis Alpitude has been finished with it was time to get another Long Term project in. And after a LOT of deliberation here is what I’ve gone…
It’s 11PM and I’m not at work…
…but I am working. I’ve just written up my One Ton Weekend for issue 52, in which Singletrack, both us office folk and Singletarck forumites, build a pump track. It’s…
You Had To Be There (Or Maybe Not)
This issue is on The Plan as being the “Interview” issue. For such an apparently straightforward feature they always seem to end involving a surprising amount of work/hassle – both…
Trust Folk
Hello all, Just had a weekend away with my Missus in Dartmoor. Lying around in a tent, reading a Complete Saturday Guardian, beer, wine, barbecue, mild sunstroke, the usual stuff…
Words done, van packed. We’re outta here.
You can’t beat a good deadline rush even though it’s early this issue thanks to the efficiency of Sim and Ben at the helm. Finished words for the next issue…
Home Turf
Last week I was in Morzine on the Singletrack Readers’ Week holiday with FlowMTB. And it was fantastic. After a while off the bike due to one thing or another…
Issue 52: Update
AKA the Ben & Sim issue.. right then, words and pics are beginning to trickle in. I’ve tried to chase up some words from folks and hopefully by the end…
Out Of Office
You may have been wondering why the front page of the site has been quiet this week. Well, we’ve all been in Morzine on the 2009 Singletrack Magazine Reader Holiday…
Local Rides for Local People
We’ve a simple rule in our house; If the sun’s shining we’re out riding. And so faced with the prospect of having to sort out the garden fence it was…
Off To Morzine To Meet ‘n’ Greet The Readers
We’re off to Morzine tomorrow for this year’s Reader Holiday (kindly hosted by Flow MTB). Myself and Matt are just back from a week’s hard riding in Norway. Marky The…
Guest Editors / Temporary Promotion
As you may already know, Chipps is having a well-earned rest for few weeks (well, if you can call hauling yourself self-supported across the Pyrenees a “rest”). Which leaves myself…
No Busman’s Holiday Thanks
Once a year I like to get away from it all. And by that I mean I like to have a week away from bikes! Now don;t get me wrong…
Robbing Peter, Paying Paul
We all know that getting the work/life balance right is important, but I seem to be having problems with my work/work balance at the moment too. I was meant to…
Making Hay
Even though I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday messing about on two wheels under scorching sunshine I still felt the urge to "play out" on Sunday afternoon...