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Issue 152 Last Word: Start Something

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Singletrack Issue 151 Editorial: Especially average? Or averagely special?

Words: Chipps Does anyone ever aspire to be average? Surely, statistically, most of us must be average at most things? Look around, though, and all talk is about the fastest,…

Singletrack Issue 151: Borneo Singletrack

Steve helped plant the mountain biking seed in Borneo a decade ago. Visiting again for the first time, he wondered if it had taken root and flourished. Words Steve Chapman…

Singletrack Issue 151: A Clarion Call

Hannah examines the rise of a new type of cycling club: the collective. Words Hannah photography as credited Some of the earliest cycling clubs were formed by people with a…

Singletrack Issue 151 Classic Ride: Pendle Pootle

The STW team ride in the shadow of Lancashire’s Pendle Hill, site of many a 17th century witch trial. However, they didn’t find any witches; just mellow trails and tasty...

Singletrack Issue 151: Ydyn ni bron yna?

Chipps wonders what happened to the Welsh Government’s promises for a more accessible outdoors for all. Words Chipps Photography Amanda *Ydyn ni bron yna? = Are we almost there? A...

Endurance Cross-Country Kit Essentials

Trial and error (and a bit of grumpy lying on the ground) has seen Amanda find her way to the ideal kit to keep on going, and going, and going…

Singletrack Issue 151 Purposeful Adventure: Friends in High Places

Pete goes in search of the dabs of colour that cling to life in the Scottish mountains. Words & Photography Pete Scullion Heading north and west into a little-known corner…

Singletrack Issue 151: I ❤️ My Night Riding Gear

Hannah brings you the clothing and hardware that keeps her spinning through the long winter evenings. Words Hannah Photography Amanda Night riding… it’s something of a necessary evil in the...

Singletrack Issue 151: Finding The Flow

The full member paywall on this article has been removed in association with Endura Skipping school and heading to the woods might get some kids a telling-off. Ina de Smet discovered it...

Singletrack Issue 151 Last Word: Favourite Meal

Amanda recalls a favourite, awful, meal. Food is a very important part of riding bikes. Not only for the basic fact of us needing the fuel, but it often can…

Singletrack World Issue 150 Editorial

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to issue 150 of Singletrack World Magazine. Whether you’re a new reader in print or online (or both), or an old hand…

Issue 150: Limestone Cowboys

Can you really enjoy the delights of a new country when you’re racing through it at high speed on a stage race? There’s only one way to find out…  Words…

Issue 150: Full Time Tinkering

Steve Chapman talks to the man who makes your suspension work better than when it left the factory. Words Steve Chapman photography Sarah Barratt I’ve been harbouring a secret for…

Issue 150: A Few Feet Away

Anders measures the gaps between doubts, dreams and delivery.  Words & Illustrations Anders Engberg When I was five years old my dad built a 25ft sailing catamaran in the living…

Issue 150: Purposeful Adventure – Land Lost

Pete Scullion looks at some of the industrial scars that mark the ‘unspoiled beauty’ of England’s Lake District. But it’s not all bad… far from it. Words & Photography Pete…

Issue 150: The Three-Wheeled Amigos

Antony finds out the unique challenges that taking a trike around an event like the Dirty Reiver poses. Words Antony de Heveningham Photography As Credited We’re in a van heading…

Issue 150: Chipps’ Summer Ridewear

Chipps gives his top kit tips for those summer weeks (or foreign trips) where the temperatures hit ‘scorchio’ and beyond. I’ve had a long-running debate with American (mostly Californian and Coloradan) bike, clothing and shoe…

Singletrack World Classic Ride 150: Ben Mac Do It

Each year my friends and I take a trip to Scotland for a week during May bank holiday to enjoy the freedom of wild camping, the right to roam and…

Issue 150: ‘Who died and made you Keeper of the Peak?’

Hannah chats with Chris Maloney to find out what keeps him giving up his free time for the benefit of mountain bikers. Words Hannah Photography Alastair Johnstone / as credited...

Singletrack World Issue 150 Celebration

It’s not always new tyres and perfect corners, OK? Singletrack World Magazine is 150 issues old. That’s no mean feat, and we wanted to celebrate it by bringing you a…

Issue 150 Last Word: How did we get here?

In his Editorial, Chipps says you don’t ‘do mountain biking’, you just ‘are a mountain biker’. I wonder though, how many of you thought you were becoming mountain bikers on…

Editorial: Work up to the widdly bits

Chipps reminds us not to try to skip to the end… When I was about 16 I borrowed an electric guitar from a friend, with the usual teenage ambitions of…

Beinn Dorain: Scotland’s Great Pyramid

Ever seen that big pointy lump of a hill on the way to Fort William and wondered how it rides? Pete Scullion goes to find out. Words & Photography Pete…

I ❤️ My: All-Season Ridewear

Amanda shares with us the kit that gets her through ride after ride, day after day, through all the seasons. I’m a big fan of layering and I like to…

Classic Ride 149 – Britain’s Newest Bridleway

James Vincent takes on the classic Borrowdale Bash, complete with new official off-road start. Words & Photography James Vincent If ever there was a route that showcased all there is…

International Adventure: Big Mountains, Small Details

In the vast Himalayan landscape, a solo trip is the stuff of dreams. Words & Photography Matthias Stitz It’s 4.30am. Dawn is breaking, it’s freezing, and I’m standing at the…

Column: Weight For It

Benji argues that weight does matter (but not much). The following column will hopefully unite the warring tribes in mountain biking. From the weeniest of weight watchers, to the whatever-est…

Purposeful Adventure: Eager Beavers

Pete and Rosie rides over hills and crawl through undergrowth in search of Scotland’s thriving beaver population. Words & Photography Pete Scullion This Purposeful Adventure idea came about via the...

Last Word: Riding with Dinosaurs

Is Ian ‘@hardtail_only’ Storer trapped in the past or revelling in his eternal youth? There\'s more to this story But it\'s a member-only story Join us to unlock it and more…