It’s Friday and freedom beckons! Before you get released from the metaphorical coal mine (or literal one if you happen to be a coal miner) here’s this week’s selection of…
24 & 12 Hours Of Exposure – European & UK Solo Championships
Dymond lass Joolze reports on a weekend of joy through suffering
661 Gravity Enduro Ae report & video
Last weekend saw the very first race in the 661 Gravity Enduro series taking place in the woods of Ae in the Scottish Borders. Despite the buff weather leading up…
Mid Week Movies.
Jumps, crashes, skids, skinny people who are going to get massively obese through sloth. First up sunshine, Spain and bar spins. You might want to fast forward to about 3.30…
VIP News From The Black Mountains 3 Day Beer Sponsor.
With a little under two months to go now until the Black Mountains 3 Day kicks off on July 1st, the team have been busy putting the finishing touches on…
Fresh Goods
We’ll kick this week’s Fresh Goods off with a dilemma. If four wheels are good, are two wheels better? Is a bicycle built for two better than two bicycles built…
Ritchey Bikefest 2011 powered by Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport
Solo entries almost full for Ashton Court singletrackfest
GT Distortion 2.0 Review
Distortion by name, distortion by nature. It's a short travel bike with long travel angles - what's it for?
Danny MacAskill – the Secret Tapes
Seven minutes of MacAskill outtakes and commentary from THAT video
‘Ride The Divide’ film night at Dales Bike Centre
We’ve just heard from the good folks at Dales Bike Centre they’ve organised another Mountain Bike Film night at The Station Cinema in Richmond, North Yorkshire on the 8th May,…
Avoid Wharncliffe Woods 14th May (please)
There's a world ranking running race going on so steering clear would be helpful
New Orange Patriot?
While Jon was up at the iXS MacAvalanche he spotted a rather new looking Orange – in fact there were a couple of them kicking about, including the bike MTBCut.tv…
Midweek Mini Movies
It’s another short week, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take a bit of time for yourself this lunchtime. Here’s our usual selection of biking related video stuff to keep…
iXS MacAvalanche Video
Last weekend the closest thing the UK has seen to the Mega Avalanche took place on the slopes on Glencoe Mountain Resort, the iXS MacAvalanche. One hundred odd riders, a…
Cube release first downhill bike
They’ve been making waves with their all-mountain and cross country bikes recently but Germany brand Cube has just released their first proper downhill bike, the two15. It’s taken a while…
Exploding Camelbak Bladders
No, it’s not a product recall – during his recent visit to the Camelbak factory Chipps asked the test lab guys to demonstrate just how tough their bladders are* with…
Fresh Goods
What with Good Friday last week and the Royal Wedding thing today, you’ve probably been missing your dose of Fresh Goods. Well, to make this special day that bit more…
iXS MacAvalanche kicks off this weekend…
Never mind the Royal Wedding and all that nonsense, something really important is happening in Britain. The first iXS Mac Avalanche race will be hitting the slopes of Glencoe Mountain…
Second round of the ChainReactionCycles MTB Marathon draws near
Second round will hit Llandovery on the weekend of the 22nd May
First round of the 661 Gravity Enduro at Ae almost full
If you want to enter the inaugural round of the 661 Gravity Enduro taking place at Ae Forest up in Scotland on the weekend of the 7th May, you’d best…
Chris Akrigg Broken!
Left with a shattered leg and broken arm after attempting particularly hard cliff drop
Camelbak Office (And Test Lab) Visit
Chipps visits Camelbak's California office and secret test lab and blows stuff up!
Nutcracker XC Gandale report
The opening round of the Nutcracker XC race series took place at the weekend on MOD land at Gandale, located on the outskirts of Catterick Garrision in North Yorkshire. It’s…
Video: Labyrinth Agile Review
Labyrinth Bikes are a relatively new brand to these shores but they have their origins all the way back in 1991, hailing from the Vosges region of France. We’ve had…
A NEW START LINE….
WHERE DO I START……my golly gosh I’m well over due in the blogging department. Since returning from guiding and coaching in Portugal it has been full steam ahead in the…
Mountain Biking in Scotland Hits Sky TV
Ooh! Mountain bikes on the telly! Okay, you’ll need a Murdoch-dish to be able to see it but Sky Sports have launched their new series, Cycle Sports World, with a…
Brownbacks Hope XC Series returns…
Lee Quarry sees another season of cross country racing; organisers say it'll be bigger and better than before
Team CRC/Nuke Proof at the Pietermaritzburg DH World Cup
Team mechanic Dave Garland runs us though the track and bike setup for the first race of the season
Anthill announce new film – and it’ll be free…
The crew behind Follow Me, Roam and the Collective are about to start filming on a new project
Fort William World Cup tracks get makeover…
Rowan Sorrell tells us what's going on with the four cross and downhill tracks for this year's downhill World Cup
Sea Otter: Random Roundup #3
More random Sea Otter sightings: MRP, Specialized, Light and Motion, Grammo, Foes...
Sea Otter: Banshee Prime (and Spitfire)
Banshee (Mythic in the UK)'s new Prime 29er and (not as new) Spitfire 26er
Midweek Mini Movies
It’s the middle of the week and it’s time to be distracted from whatever pressing work matters you have. Rationalising the workflow and managing throughput will have to wait. Jack…
Shimano Singletrack Classic Weekender – The Trials Video
If the word ‘trials’ conjures up images of Danny MacAskill pulling backflips off trees and riding incredibly narrow railings with massive drops to the side, then you shouldn’t let the…
Countrytracks visit Lee Quarry
The other week a BBC film crew descended on Lee Quarry, our local trail centre and home of the Singletrack Classic Weekender. They were there to film local trials prodigy…
Long Termers: Dave’s Kona Kilauea
I’ve been riding the Kona a lot recently, mainly due to my Cannondale Rush finally needing a bit of TLC after two winters of pretty solid use. Similar to my…
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…
Black Mountains Three Day course preview
Spring has sprung, the daffs are out and there’s just over 70 days to go until the inaugural Black Mountains 3 Day kicks off on the 1th to 3rd of…
Builth Wells CRC Marathon report & video
Here’s a report from the rather sunny opening round of the Chain Reaction Cycles MTB Marathon Series, powered by Mercedes-Benz Vito Sport, at the Royal Welsh Showground in Builth Wells…