First Trail Break events of the season this weekend near Guildford & 2009 calendar announced
Bike Shop Owner Attacked By Sloth
Now the details are a little all over the place at the moment but we have it on good authority that one way or another Jonny Letch from Chelmer Cycles has been attacked by a sloth. This has resulted in it breaking his wrist. His…
Re-introducing The New Singletrack Trail Guide
Shortly before Christmas we put together a list of all the best places to ride in the UK, from trail centres to natural trails. There’s pages and pages of easily digested information designed to give you a flavour of the riding to be had. Go check it…
No Fuss’ 2009 Event Listing
Outdoor event specialists No Fuss Events (Fort William) recently announced their 2009 programme. With nine events across the length and breadth of Scotland. The full programme for 2009: Saturday 7 March 2009 – The Wee Triathlon, Lochaber Kick start your year with a half triathlon…
Another Tweaked Bike From Intense – The New Uzzis
The new Intense* Uzzi in AM and FR guises. Not a whole lotta details at the mo apart from the new Uzzi having two travel-n-geometry options and a 1.5in headtube (unsurprisingly much like their other recently tweaked models). *Other bike brands are available.
Intense Launch The Spider 2
“Building on the success of the Tracer VP, Intense Cycles is excited to launch their second new model featuring the next generation VPP suspension design. The new Spider 2 will bridge the gap between the Spider FRO XC race frame and the Tracer VP Trailbike.…
We’re back?
A quick rundown of what happened: Just before Christmas the site was hacked, and most of it deleted. Due to various security implications we couldn’t put the old site back up. We made a new forum for people to continue chatting. During this time some…
”Messing About On Bikes” Singletrack Video
If you’re in need of something to while away a few more minutes at work until your Christmas holiday begins then give this little video a play… Just a random collection of video footage stitched together with some music slapped on top. The music is…
TransWales ’09
The 7 day MTB stage challenge to take place on 15th – 22nd August 2009 The TransWales Team write… 2008 is slowly coming to an end and the next season is looming around the corner. After weeks of frantically trying to put our plans for…
Hit The North 1point5
The organisers of the inaugural Hit the North didn’t think that the race was muddy enough so they decided to organise another one in the middle of winter. Hit the North – Winter Sprinter is a “Two-hour-plus-one-lap” bike race around Philips Park and Waterdale, North…
Magura Recalls Early Durin Forks
Magura has announce that it is recalling the first production batch of their Durin 80/100 race forks. Here’s what Magura would like to pass on: “In the course of our regular product observation we have discovered that the first production batch of our Durin Race…
Gorrick Spring Series – Now With Added Newness
As 2009 looms ever closer so does Gorrick’s ever popular Spring Series, now with lots of added new stuff: New Year, New Series, New Venue, New Times, New Sponsor! The Gorrick Team write… The Gorrick team have always had a passion for what they do,…
Pace Demo Dalby
Pace Cycles is having a series of demos at their local trail centre of Dalby this winter/spring… So if you fancied a go, get on down. (Now updated with date additions/changes) There are five days arranged on the following dates: Sunday Jan 25th (in association…
Rachel Atherton Wins BBC Award
2008 womens World Mountain Bike champion Rachel Atherton overcame some strong opposition last night to be named BBC Midlands Sportswoman of the Year. Rachel who was also nominated for ‘Personality of the year’ alongside brother Gee claimed the award in front of a star studded…
New Bike Centre in the Yorkshire Dales Opening Soon
Yorkshire Dales based Dales Mountain Biking is nearing completion of their ambitious expansion plans. Situated in Fremington on the outskirts of Reeth, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales they are developing a dedicated bike centre. Dales Bike Centre as it is to be known will welcome…
BBC Reports on Builth Merida…
But not for reasons you’d expect. It has published the findings of the The National Public Health Service for Wales who found that ‘contaminated mud’ led to illness… Many riders after the Builth Merida complained of vomiting and diarrhoea, so the NPHS for Wales sent…
Tracy for Trek
Top UK rider Tracy Moseley has signed for the new Trek downhill team. She’ll be joining Justin Leov and Andrew Neethling and others on the newly formed gravity racing team. The team will be riding new Session 88s Today the speculation on the six rider…
Singletrack Issue 1 Editorial – I’m old enough to know better
I’m old enough to know better… I should know better than to get together with a couple of friends to try and start a mountain bike magazine, published entirely with our own, limited funds – in a ‘flat’ cycling market. Only a fool or a…
Singletrack Issue 1 – If it’s Tuesday this must be Moab
As we met for a breakfast of omelettes smothered in green chile sauce, Jo and Russell told us about how they’d been up early and seen the Uranium trucks rumbling through Moab at 5am (presumably while they thought no one was watching).
Singletrack Issue 1 Editorial 2
GoFar is pleased to announce the birth of its successor. Well this is a bit of a leap isn’t it? From website to real mag. There’s a sort of inverse logic to all this. Magazines exist, then usually they sprout a token website full of…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Michael Bonney (Orange Bikes) interview
Way back, in Issue 1 of Singletrack Magazine, we interviewed Michael Bonney. As friends, family, and the industry mourn his passing, look back fondly as he takes a guess, in 2001, at how mountain biking will develop. Intro From the depths of deepest West Yorkshire,…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Singleminded
Words by Steve Delacruz Picture by Seb Rogers First published April 2001 Singletrack. There isn’t a single word in a mountain biker’s vocabulary that evokes as many memories or passion as this one. Ask any mountain biker in any part of the world about their…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Fall Girl
by Myra VanInwegen Mountain biking is risky. Unless you try only the tamest trails and walk even the smallest dropoffs, you will crash. Of course, not all crashes result in major injuries. Most result in nothing worse that dirty clothes, small cuts, scrapes and bruises.…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Bike Test
For the first bike test in Singletrack we decided to do something just a little differently. We’ve not picked three similarly priced hardtails. Nor have we plumped for a range of full suspension bikes. Instead we have three bikes from the best of Britain’s bike…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Long Term Tests
Easton Monkey Lite bars Easton are best known for their aluminium wrangling, but they’ve branched out into carbon fibre rather well in the last couple of years. Carbon posts, carbon road forks (mmm, nice) and these here Monkey Lite carbon bars. I’ve had a pair…
Singletrack Issue 1 Exclusive Test – Maverick, the best climbing bike ever?
Words and pictures by Chipps Chippendale Getting the first review of a Maverick bike in the UK, and possibly Europe, took all the string pulling we could muster. But it was definitely worth the effort. Not only is it one of the most expensive, luxury…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Nuclear Power Play
We've dug back into issue one to bring you Singletrack's very first road trip - must have been fission for themes
Singletrack Issue 1 – Should I stay or should I grow?
There was a Howies advert once with a tag-line that read: “There are more people alive today than have ever died, being alone is going to get harder.” We’d all like to see our sport get more recognition wouldn’t we? We think it’s great seeing…
Singletrack Issue 1 – The Armchair feature
This is the part of the magazine where we invite you to make yourself a very large cup or coffee, (preferably Costa Rican or Guatemalan), sit back and take some time out to have a read. Too Much of a good thing A speeding ticket…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Dostoyevsky’s Bicycle
By Ben Boney M. Books about bicycling are hard to find. I don’t mean ride guides, maintenance manuals, or ‘how to ’handbooks. I mean good books, books that really capture the spirit of life’s greatest distraction, books with a bit of weight to them, some…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Boys on the Hoodz
“Big fat fingers wrapped up in woollen gloves struggled to maintain a grip on the elegant curve of the brake levers. It only took the slightest slither of winter frosty dirt to turn them into the smoothest, silkiest, non finger-friendly devices known to man. Centre…
Singletrack Issue 1 – Shoes
The subject of shoes seems to stir up some very passionate feelings in people. While you may have many sets of riding clothes, it’s unlikely that you have more than one, or two, pairs of shoes. And as you ride them, you inevitably wear some…
