Issue 140

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Editorial: Choosing Your Time

Chipps wonders what defines – or what will define – the glory days of mountain biking.

UK Adventure: In Search of Kelpies

Pete Scullion goes to the Isle of Skye in search of the mythical Kelpie. Will it lure him off the mountains and into the water?

Classic Ride: Land’s End to Lizard

Sam Jones joins up the missing links to bring us a route you can ride over a weekend away along the tip of the Cornish coast.

UK Adventure: The Return of The Great British Holiday

It’s no Club 18-30 in Benidorm, but Rich Rothwell and friends still find fun and time out in a long lap of Edinburgh.

Kit Essentials – Tyres for the Trail

Andi reviews a selection of rubber to keep you the right way down on the trail, whatever your conditions.

Interview: Josh Bryceland

Chipps finds out what sort of life Josh Bryceland is building for himself after leaving Downhill racing behind him.

Bike Test – Gravel Bikes

Three gravel bikes from Focus, Orange and Ragley, tested out by mountain bikers. What’s all the fuss about?

MTB Culture: Klunker Detectives

Chipps traces the tangled history of a bike purchase that turned out to be a bit different to expectations.

MTB Culture: The Fifth Season

Markus Stitz does his best to persuade us that a coating of snow is the perfect ingredient to add adventure to your ride.

We also have another ‘Catch My Drift’ from Barney Marsh, as he enlightens you of the origins of another word from our mountain bike lexicon; another great recipe from Charlie in the Singletrack Kitchen; and the Editor’s Choice Awards, where the Singletrack Staff pick the very best of the products and places from their riding year, and give them their personal seal of approval.

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