Last week Troy Lee Designs launched its new open face trail helmet complete with impressive list of features. Andi has had one on his head for a few weeks now and you can get his first impression thoughts right here.. This week Chipps caught up…
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Podcast: Bowhead Corp – making bikes for life
A life changing spinal injury is one of those things that we really hope never happens to us – but as mountain bikers we know it’s a risk. When it happens, as well as all the obvious and potentially major health, work and accessibility implications,…
Singletrack Podcast: What’s the point of bike tests?
For this episode, it was a question from a reader that sparked the conversation: they wanted to know ‘why don’t we test bikes to see which is the fastest?’. Hannah, Mark and Chipps navigate their way through this question, plus a whole pile of tangental…
Singletrack Podcast: Cairn Cycles and the Adventure 1.0 eGravel bike
Cairn Cycles – part of The Rider Firm that also makes Hunt Wheels and Privateer Bikes – produced one of the first e-gravel bikes we experienced, the Adventure 1.0. We’ve followed it from prototype through to production and testing, and as Cairn opens up the…
Making Up The Numbers | MTB Training with Richie Rude and Todd Schumlick
Todd Schumlick has trained some of the world’s leading bike sports athletes from Aaron Gwin to Stevie Smith, Sam Blenkinsop to Emmeline Ragot. Richie Rude is the 2 x EWS Champion, 2013 Junior DH World Champion & has worked with Todd for the last 8…
Team Rumours Podcast! With Angel Suárez Alonso and Dakotah Norton.
It’s that time of year when the #teamrumours are in full effect! Join George & Jack for some wild speculation, uncorroborated insight & the odd confirmed fact. Joining them are a couple of riders who’ve recently confirmed new rides: Commencal 21’s Angel Suárez Alonso &…
Singletrack Podcast – Where we try to unscramble what Brexit means for us
So Brexit is here now for real. It’s all come down to this. We are on the other side and following a hurried through set of Christmas free trade rules. What does Brexit mean for mountain bikers? There are businesses announcing their changes on a…
Singletrack Podcast – The legendary Charlie Kelly episode
Whether you believe that mountain biking started on the slopes of Mount Tam, or the forests of the Pacific Northwest, or some muddy fields in the UK, the term ‘Mountain Bike’ was first recorded when Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelly registered the name of their…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast -Emilie Siegenthaler, Becky Cook and Martha Gill
We’re getting pretty deep into the offseason now & we wanted to try & shine a light on a few issues in the sport. The first show is about increasing participation from women, particularly when it comes to racing. What role do national federations play?…
Singletrack Podcast – The riding bikes indoors on Zwift can be fun episode
This week sees the final race in the Forum organised Autumn Zwift series 2. Last week, Mark & Chipps both decided to see what all the fuss was about. Chipps held on to the middle of the bunch while Mark took a site seeing tour…
Singletrack Podcast | The one where Chipps talks to Hans Rey
In this week’s episode Chipps take time to talk to Hans Rey across the Atlantic from his California home about what has kept his career going for so long. It’s a lesson in how to be a sponsored rider and make a lifelong career that…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast Ep 12 | Tracey Hannah and Matt Walker
As the mud dries on the 2020 DH Season George & Jack catch up with 2020 UCI DH World Cup Champion, Madison Saracen’s Matt Walker & after recently announcing her retirement, play 20 questions with the 2019 UCI DH World Cup Champion, Polygon UR’s Tracey…
Singletrack Podcast | The one where a bloke jumps out of a helicopter
Where do I start with the rambling introduction to this week’s episode? It has to be one of the most random introductions we’ve ever recorded. Chipps joins the professionals and Charlie reckons we have something to learn as mountain bikers from the flying fish bloke…
Win DMR V11 Pedals | We have 5 pairs to give away
Earlier this week DMR launched their new composite flat pedals based on the classic and very popular DMR Vault platform. Today, you have a chance to win a set of these pedals just by answering a simple question below. You can read all about the…
Singletrack Podcast | The why do we not stick to talking about bikes episode
Welcome to our weekly podcast. This week Hannah is back in the hosting chair and talks about the differences between plans and goals and recounts the time she went to the desert and it snowed on her. Following that Hannah has a chat with our…
Singletrack Podcast | The who wants to be an event organiser these days episode
This week’s episode kicks off with a chat between Chipps and Amanda on what it’s been like to get away from the local trails for a bit. Then Hannah steps in with an indepth interview with TweedLove organ grinder, Neil Dalgleish about just how hard…
Making Up The Numbers | Camille Balanche, David Trummer and Dan Slack – DH World Championship Review
What a weekend in Leogang! Still cleaning mud from their fingernails, ears and suspension linkages, we have three riders fresh from their DH World Championship podiums and straight into the podcast studio with George and Jack. Your new Women’s Elite World Champion, Camille Balanche, Elite…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast – DH World Championships Preview Special
Finally some Downhill Racing for the gang to get excited about! Joining George & Jack for a special Downhill World Champs preview show are 2 x GB Elite Men’s National Champion Greg Williamson, 2 x Junior Women’s World Champion & 2 x Junior Women’s World…
FGF 517 Podcast | The episode where Amanda and Chipps try and cheer up grumpy Hannah
This week Hannah is really grumpy, but so is Amanda. Chipps is never grumpy though. Will his eternal chirpiness help or hinder the situation? Worth listening right past the final outro for the Radio 2 shout out that Chipps got for being nice.
FGF 516 Podcast | The rapid weight loss episode
Chipps, Andi and Hannah meet up for a virtual discussion on the best ways to lose weight off your bike, including whether you should even care at all how much your bike weighs.
FGF Podcast 515 | Riding in the UK vs US & Rude YouTube comments
It’s another three way chat this week. Mark and Hannah are joined by regular contributor Fahzure (AKA Kevin) to talk about his 2 month long experience of riding in the UK before he heads back to the US this week. So, what are the differences…
Singletrack Podcast 514 | The why won’t the rear mech just die episode
We’ve been away for a couple of weeks while many of the Singletrack podcast team were on holiday. But we are back now and we’ve recorded a bit of a three way ramble about bikes, events, Red Bull Rampage and how grownups don’t play enough…
FGF Podcast 511 | Recorder music, hardtail shortages and Hannah’s #vanlife
Hannah is back but she’s not really back. She’s roughing it the back of her van with love of her life Fahzure as she travels around Wales having riding adventures. So, it’s MC Mark once again standing in. This week we get a disturbing aural…
Singletrack Podcast 510 | The Chris Porter EXT Fork & Politics Rant Episode
We’ve missed a week of Podcasts due to summer holidays and the fact that only Hannah really understands how to organise this side of editorial production. However, Mark has managed to roundup Chipps and Andi to talk about the latest developments in the MTB UK…
FGF Podcast 509 | Post Covid future of the Enduro World Series with Chris Ball
This week Hannah bends the ears of our very own Charlie and Chipps about their experience of organising events and what they think the future holds for the social side of mountain bike racing in a post Covid19 world. On the same topic Hannah speaks…
FGF Podcast 508 | Trash Free Trails & building a bike from only European parts
This week Andi talks to Hannah about the European Bike Project – a project to build a full suspension mountain bike from entirely European sourced frame and components. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But when you get down to the figurative nuts and bolts it’s not…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Greg Minnaar, Jordi Cortes and Rob Przykucki
This episode of the podcast is a bit special! Joining George to talk ‘bike set up’ are 3 x World Champion & 3 x World Cup Champion Greg Minnaar, Fox Global Technician Jordi Cortes and Founder of Motion Instruments Rob Przykucki. Watch on YouTube or…
Podcast 507 | The rescued cow & Huhn Bikes mountain chicken episode
Andi chats with Ralph Holleis of Huhn Bikes about his inspiration and skills that have lead him down the path of combining art with bike building. Huhn is Chicken in German. Why chicken you might ask; “Getting dirty is fun, chickens live in the dirt,…
Review: 2021 Orange Five Evo LE short travel big hitter
Andi tackles the trails on Orange’s latest creation, the short travel, progressively angled 2021 Orange Five Evo LE. A few years ago I reviewed the Orange Four and I concluded that the short travel, single-pivot Orange was probably the bike most riders should be on.…
FGF Podcast 505 | Barbed wire hands and Chloe Taylor interview
This week Hannah grills Amanda about her recent incident with a barbed wire fence before Andi chats to Chloe Taylor about her life as a pro racer under lockdown conditions. Did you know she’s only been riding mountain bikes for 3 years?
FGF Podcast 504 | Jamie Knight, Lion And Being An Autistic Mountain Biker
This week the Singletrack podcast gang of Hannah, Chipps and Andi talk about the latest output from SRAM plus the weather. That’s then followed by a truly fascinating chat with Jamie Knight about being autistic and how that affects him as a mountain biker. You…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Gee Atherton
Gee Atherton joins George and Jack in this week’s Making Up The Numbers Podcast. Joining us on this episode of the podcast is 2 x World Champion & 2010 World Cup Overall Champion, Gee Atherton. If you had an hour to ask Gee Atherton anything…
FGF Podcast 503 | Van Gals, Scottish MTB and news from Andi’s shed
This week Hannah leads the chat across the board starting with stars of the latest copy of Singletrack magazine, the Van Gals. We’d encourage you to answer the Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland Survey to help shape the future of their work, and also build…
Singletrack Podcast 502 | World Bicycle Relief, 3 Peaks & eMTB battery range
In this week’s episode Hannah gets to talk about her favourite bike related charity with chief exec of World Bicycle Relief. Chipps talks to the organiser or the recently cancelled 3 Peaks Cyclo-cross race about what goes on behind the scenes of this most iconic…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | 2020 MTB World Cup – Let’s Go Racing!
We have a 2020 MTB World Cup season on the horizon! Joining George & Jack to discuss it are the UCI’s Simon Burney, Nina Hoffmann, Trek Factory Racing’s Andrew Shandro & Fit 4 Racing’s Jonny Thompson! Last week the UCI released a revised 2020 Downhill…
Podcast 501 | What sorts of magazines did Hannah read as a teenager?
This week Hannah, Andi and Mark have a three way chat about everything from the latest mtb news to the strange and unusual things that people are typing in to Google. Also, if you wondered why we are no longer selling Singletrack in the newsagents…
FGF Podcast 500 | The death of the Cotic Soul & Pipedream history episode
We have a double interview special for you this week as Chipps interrogates Cy from Cotic about why, why? WHY? the Cotic Soul is now just a memory. Andi then goes deep with Alan from Pipedream cycles about the history of the brand and the…
Markus Stitz interview, Andi’s shed and tales of a bivvy gone bad | Podcast 499
Is it a studio? Is it an office? Or is it just a shed without a roof on at the moment? Whatever it is Hannah and Andi have a considered debate about Andi’s latest lockdown project. Markus Stitz Interview Also in this week’s episode Hannah…
FGF 498 Podcast | Memberships, Sheds, and the future of press launches?
If you’ve been listening to our Singletrack podcasts on a regular basis you will probably be able to detect a pattern in the lockdown episodes. A certain deteriorating madness in the tone of the staff is becoming more noticeable with every episode. This is clearly…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Vali Höll & Thibaut Dapréla
Joining George & Jack for this episode are Junior World Cup Winners Vali Höll and Thibaut Dapréla. Vali Höll is the 2 x Junior Women’s World Champion & 2 x Junior Women’s World Cup Overall Winner & in 2018 she completed the perfect season, winning every…
Fresh Goods Podcast 497 | The Bike Connection interview and dangerous badger episode
It’s been another curious week for the Singletrack team – we have tales of long distance separation mixed with a dash of new kit and product news and all finished off with a look at the situation through the eyes of event organisers. Oh, and…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Tahnée Seagrave
There may be no racing yet, but that hasn’t stopped the podcasts rolling. This week we have Tahnée Seagrave, World Cup Winner – and potential World Champion contender, had 2020 gone to plan. As the 2013 Junior World Champion & winner of 7 World Cups,…
FGF Podcast 496 | The one with bird song and Nick Craig’s guide to building a garden sauna
Once again, under lockdown, we’ve been remotely recording ourselves doing the things that have kept us entertained and sane for another week. This week Hannah has resorted to recording the sounds of birds in her garden with the occasional interruption from the neighbours’s jet wash.…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Charlie Hatton, Joe Breeden and Alan Milway
There may be no racing yet, but that hasn’t stopped the podcasts rolling. This week we have three huge guests for you. Atherton Racing’s Charlie Hatton & Polygon UR’s Joe Breeden are 2 of GB’s young guns battling on the World Cup stage; legendary coach…
FGF Podcast 495 | The forking forks are everywhere episode
In this week’s episode Hannah is outed as a cheat in our colouring competition, Charlie tells us a story about the time he met the late Lord Bath and Andi goes forking mad.
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Laurie Greenland
There may be no racing yet, but that hasn’t stopped the podcasts rolling. In his first ever podcast, this week we have Laurie Greenland. At 23 years of age Laurie Greenland is on the perfect trajectory to the very top of the sport. Junior World…
FGF Podcast 494 | The travels, surf and cravats of Charlie episode
In this week’s episode Hannah talks to Charlie about his eventful return from Costa Rica, Andy tells us about all the secret things he’s got at his house and Chipps explains how we launched Singletrack in the middle of the foot and mouth crisis 19…
Making Up The Numbers Podcast | Danny Hart
The race season may be all topsy turvy, but fear not, we have an hour of great chat here with one of the world’s best Downhill riders: Danny Hart. If there’s one rider who certainly isn’t making up the numbers it’s Madison Saracen’s Danny Hart;…
Singletrack Fresh Goods Podcast 493 | The hoarders of bog rolls episode
This week Hannah hosts and chats remotely to the editorial team to discuss everything from the lockdown to virtual online birthday parties. We also have bikes with built in GPS tracking, industry leaks and gossip and Chipps explains how you can still support your neighbours…
Fresh Goods Podcast 492 | The hunker down for the long haul edition
This week Chipps beams his editorial and comment from isolation and Andy starts to sniffle. Amanda boils down the entire issue 130 contents to just 30 seconds and Mark explains why we now need you all more than ever.
Fresh Goods Podcast 491 | The this week we have been mostly working from home episode.
In this week’s episode Hannah takes control as she guides you through submissions from the editorial staff who have been mostly working from home. We’ve got the latest news roundup from Andi, issue 130 magazine update from Amanda and Chipps tells us surprisingly little about…