Issue 157: Busman’s Holiday

Issue 157: Busman’s Holiday

Tracy Moseley’s idea of a holiday does not involve a sun lounger, but it is all-inclusive – and all-in. A trip of a lifetime to the BC Bike Race lives…

A Spectator’s Guide To Red Bull Rampage

A Spectator’s Guide To Red Bull Rampage

Maybe you’re interested in heading out to watch Red Bull Rampage first hand. After my experience last week, I figured a few hints and tips on what to take with…

Fresh Goods Friday 727: The East 17 Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 727: The East 17 Edition

Alright, alright, everything’s going to be alright. That’s what the chaps from Walthamstow say anyway. And who are we to argue? This past week has seen Singletrackers in the desert…

UCI Confirms 2025 MTB World Series Changes

UCI Confirms 2025 MTB World Series Changes

The UCI and Mountain Bike World Series organisers have issued a press release confirming what we were pretty sure was already happening, thanks to the leaked document we told you…

Triple-clamping an enduro bike: Privateer 161 edit

Triple-clamping an enduro bike: Privateer 161 edit

Nice vid documenting the fork options of the Privateer 161 with Ferg Ryan. Some inspiring scenery and trails found in British Columbia on both a single- and dual-crown forks. Privateer…

Cool Head And A Spicy Line: Tom Isted’s Red Bull Rampage Debut

Cool Head And A Spicy Line: Tom Isted’s Red Bull Rampage Debut

Tom Isted has me nervous. Despite his reassurance that he’s going to keep things chilled and just try and get down in one piece, his YouTube videos speak to a…

The Grinder 157: Granite Quiver, Madison DTE jacket, Feedback Sports Pro HD Repair Stand and more

The Grinder 157: Granite Quiver, Madison DTE jacket, Feedback Sports Pro HD Repair Stand and more

Tried and tested by the Singletrack Crew, gear to help you survive a day in the hills – or the workshop. Granite Design Quiver Tool Roll This is marketed as…

Issue 157 – Better With Friends

Issue 157 – Better With Friends

Is mountain biking something best done as a group, or is there a certain singularity of experience to be had in the solo ride? Chipps and Hannah try to see…

Scott Ransom: The Super Trail Bike

Scott Ransom: The Super Trail Bike

There’s a lot going on with the new Scott Ransom. But in a nutshell it is a mountain bike with 170mm of travel, progressive geometry, and a 6-bar rear suspension…

Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Watching Red Bull Rampage is less of an adrenaline event and more of an endurance one. As is traditional, practice was delayed by wind. The organisers tried to get the…

Rampage Diary 4: Location Location Location

Rampage Diary 4: Location Location Location

Red Bull Rampage owes everything to its location. If it were anywhere else in the world it would a different event. The Rampage sites, just outside Virgin, Utah, are a…

Win This Yamaha Wabash RT Bike and expand your riding options: 502 Club Raffle

Win This Yamaha Wabash RT Bike and expand your riding options: 502 Club Raffle

Our 502 Club raffles help to support Singletrackworld and it’s sustainability in times that are unprecedented for the media and bike industries alike. Find out more about our 520 Club…

Cat Eye Lighting Bundle: Did you win it?

Cat Eye Lighting Bundle: Did you win it?

It’s draw time again for our latest 502 Club Raffle. The prize this week is a bundle of goodies from top lighting brand, Cat Eye. Cat Eye lights have been…

Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

No, it’s not called dampening. You can dampen something. You can damp something. But dampening is not a thing. Well, apart from a gerund or present participle verb. But it’s…

Issue 157 – Norway Hans Rey

Issue 157 – Norway Hans Rey

What would you say are the greatest innovations in mountain biking? Most would agree the invention of full suspension, then there is the dropper seat post; in more recent times…

First Ever Women’s Red Bull Rampage: The Results

First Ever Women’s Red Bull Rampage: The Results

Shovels down. It’s competition day. The dig teams are heading towards holiday mode, all the heavy work done. The riders, too, are horsing around in the car park. Maybe they’re…

Red Bull Rampage Diary 3: Go Big, But Come Home

Red Bull Rampage Diary 3: Go Big, But Come Home

Today was the last day of practice for the women, tomorrow is showtime. But when you watch Red Bull Rampage on the TV, with all the Loud Hype Stoke production…

Issue 157 Last Word – Catastrophe!157

Issue 157 Last Word – Catastrophe!157

After a dozen years of incident-free mountain biking, luck ran out for my wife in October and she found her foot pointing sideways after an innocuous slide-out into a gravel…

Red Bull Rampage Diary 2: A Changing Soundtrack

Red Bull Rampage Diary 2: A Changing Soundtrack

Yesterday’s percussive accompaniment of the slapping of shovels picked up a different rhythm today at Red Bull Rampage, for the second day of practice. As I walked up the lower…

Rampage Diary Day 1: First Hits, And A Sense of Scale

Rampage Diary Day 1: First Hits, And A Sense of Scale

Our Rampage coverage is supported by.. Win an ABUS full face helmet. Details below Today was a day of firsts at Red Bull Rampage 2024. After five dig days for…

Readers’ Rides: Brian E’s Kona Process 153 DL

Readers’ Rides: Brian E’s Kona Process 153 DL

For this edition of Readers’ Rides, we dug one out from behind the sofa. Here’s Brian Evans’ “glorious purple” Kona Process 153 DL. Your Name Brian Evans Bike brand and…

Clarks CRS C4 Brakeset review

Clarks CRS C4 Brakeset review

This Clarks CRS C4 Brakeset has been one of the products I have been most excited to test for a while. Did they disappoint? Let’s find out… Pros Cons Clarks…

Campus: New Video From Danny MacAskill

Campus: New Video From Danny MacAskill

It’s Five Ten day (geddit?) and to mark the occasion Danny MacAskill has a new video out, riding all over the adidas (Five Ten) ‘Campus’. Who knew adidas had such…

Fresh Goods Friday 725: The Enduro Wolsey Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 725: The Enduro Wolsey Edition

Hello there little buddies! Welcome to the end of the week. We hope the week hasn’t treated you too badly. And if it has, go for a bike ride. It…

Get dressed for Red Bull Rampage: Win an ABUS HiDrop helmet

Get dressed for Red Bull Rampage: Win an ABUS HiDrop helmet

As the dig teams start to built lines in the Utah desert, we’ve got a Rampage-ready helmet to give away. The ABUS HiDrop helmet will be worn by Tom Isted…

NBD: Starling Beady Little Eye, Carbon Wasp Truffle-120, Norco Sight VLT

NBD: Starling Beady Little Eye, Carbon Wasp Truffle-120, Norco Sight VLT

A quick mop-up of a trio of the most interesting new bikes to land in our collective inbox this past few days. Something for everyone in this dirty triad. Starling…

Get Paid To Learn To Be An MTB Content Creator

Get Paid To Learn To Be An MTB Content Creator

If you fancy yourself as being a ‘content creator’ in the mountain bike industry, then this could be the opportunity for you. Of course, here at Singletrack we’re always open…

Danny MacAskill and Chris Ball among 2024 Hall of Fame nominations

Danny MacAskill and Chris Ball among 2024 Hall of Fame nominations

Today, the International Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, located in the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Marin County, California, announced its 2024 inductees. This year is the 36th anniversary of…

2025 Mountain Bike World Cup Series calendar revealed

2025 Mountain Bike World Cup Series calendar revealed

7 months, 10 Downhill events, 10 Cross-country events and 7 Enduro World Cup rounds. Europe, North America and South America. WHOOP UCI MOUNTAIN BIKE WORLD SERIES 2025 CALENDARS Downhill Cross-Country…

Using an eSIM To Stay Connected In Remote Locations While Hiking Or Biking

Using an eSIM To Stay Connected In Remote Locations While Hiking Or Biking

Explore eSIM as a new way to stay connected during long hiking and biking trips. Ensure you have Internet connection everywhere using a digital SIM.

Sonder Evol GX Eagle Transmission review

Sonder Evol GX Eagle Transmission review

Marketed as “aggressive trail” which, in our eyes, is just another word for enduro and this Sonder Evol is as enduro as any. Pros Cons Some modern bikes have been…

The First Women’s Red Bull Rampage Is Underway

The First Women’s Red Bull Rampage Is Underway

Yes, we’ve a wait until the spectacle of the riding itself, but there are eight days of digging ahead of us before the first women will compete at Red Bull…

502 Club Raffle : Cateye Lighting Bundle worth £460

502 Club Raffle : Cateye Lighting Bundle worth £460

Cat Eye lights have been around since before Singletrack was born and let’s face it, we’ve always been here. Chipps and Mark once wrote a feature in a long lost…

Havok Bike Park Weekender report & pics

Havok Bike Park Weekender report & pics

Different just-for-fun races, session spots on different features on the hill, there was plenty of chance to get involved and try things out. Just a couple of rain showers across…

Readers’ Rides: Roland L’s Curtis AM9

Readers’ Rides: Roland L’s Curtis AM9

For this edition of Readers’ Rides, Roland Lovell shares his Curtis AM: “it was bound to happen eventually”. There’s not a whole lot of deep detail in this submission but…

Forestry England’s Cycling Strategy: A sign of things (not) to come?

Forestry England’s Cycling Strategy: A sign of things (not) to come?

Forestry England published its first Cycling Strategy a few weeks ago. Big organisations need this sort of thing so that everyone knows what they should – or shouldn’t – be…

502 Raffle Winners – Vallon Fjallraven/Specialized

502 Raffle Winners – Vallon Fjallraven/Specialized

Did you win? If you didn’t buy a ticket then you definitely didn’t. If you did though.. Well, you need to watch this to find out. Yeah, we could just…

Fresh Goods Friday 724: The Elastomeric Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 724: The Elastomeric Edition

Welcome one and all to this week’s Fresh Goods Friday, so much better than Old News Monday. This edition brings you full circle. All will be revealed. On with the…

OneUp’s 1% Giveback reaches $1million donated

OneUp’s 1% Giveback reaches $1million donated

OneUp Components’ 1% Giveback Program has just ticked over $1 million dollars donated since 2013. As well as making arguably the best dropper post on the market, OneUp’s Giveback Program…

And the best biking spot in the UK is… Cambridge?

And the best biking spot in the UK is… Cambridge?

New research from GoOutdoors claims to reveal the best mountain biking destinations in the UK. The Tweed Valley doesn’t make the cut. Swindon does. The study looked at factors such…

Lauf Elja is a 120mm single-pivot (without a Lauf fork)

Lauf Elja is a 120mm single-pivot (without a Lauf fork)

Say hello to the new Lauf Elja. A full-suspension mountain bike from the brand you may know from the Lauf Seigla gravel bike and leaf-spring Lauf Grit forks. Lauf Elja…

Fox Live Valve Neo: more fast, less faff

Fox Live Valve Neo: more fast, less faff

The new version of Fox’s auto-adjusting suspension is here. And it claims to be 20 times quicker than its “closest competitor”. By “closest competitor” we’re going to take that as…

Interview: Joe Breedon – chasing the fractions of seconds

Interview: Joe Breedon – chasing the fractions of seconds

While at the Saddleback House Show, I had a chat with Joe Breedon, who was there with his bike and team mate Lou Ferguson. I stopped him for a chat…

Readers’ Rides: Luke B’s Scott Spark

Readers’ Rides: Luke B’s Scott Spark

For this edition, Luke Bradley shares his Scott Spark: “they’re very popular and with good reason – it’s lightning fast.” Bike brand and model Scott Spark Why this bike? While…

Route Assembly – making UK manufacturing more than a Pipedream?

Route Assembly – making UK manufacturing more than a Pipedream?

A few weeks ago there was the announcement that Pipedream Cycles had been bought by Route Assembly. Who or what is Route Assembly and what do they plan to do…

Fresh Goods Friday 723: The Big Strapping Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 723: The Big Strapping Edition

We are a relatively broad church here at Singletrack World and this week’s Fresh Goods Friday is testament to such. Droppers ‘N’ strappers. Video ‘N’ rubber. Flatties ‘N’ sunnies. Let’s…

Vali Höll: ‘It’s mountain biking, it’s not Formula 1’

Vali Höll: ‘It’s mountain biking, it’s not Formula 1’

In this episode the 2024 Elite Women’s World Champion and World Cup Champion, the YT Mob’s Vali Höll, chats with George, Jack and Emi about equal pay, three-peats, and MTB…

‘Anytime’ – New Freeride Movie With Old Skool Vibes

‘Anytime’ – New Freeride Movie With Old Skool Vibes

Anytime, the latest Red Bull and Anthill production, is now available for viewing on Red Bull TV. For those that recall the ‘Down’ series, it’s got a bit of the…

Interview: Kade Edwards in Anytime BTS – ‘I’m not going to get any better in the next 10 minutes’

Interview: Kade Edwards in Anytime BTS – ‘I’m not going to get any better in the next 10 minutes’

I went down to Dyfi Bike Park for a day of riding followed by a UK Premiere of ‘Anytime’, the latest film from Anthill and Red Bull, that celebrates freeride.…

Our go-to winter riding apparel

Our go-to winter riding apparel

We were asked to list one item of clothing that we always pick out of the pile for a wintery mountain bike ride. Here’s what we picked. Following on from…

Can You Find Any of British Cycling’s New Places To Ride?

Can You Find Any of British Cycling’s New Places To Ride?

There’s a whole host of new places to ride now available in the UK thanks to legacy funding from the UCI Road World Championships in 2019 – only it’s rather…

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