Issue 159

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Editorial: Fitting In

Chipps encourages us to get (just a bit) fitter.

 

UK Adventure: Tour de Farce

Lee Craigie and the Adventure Syndicate attempt to bring progress to bike-packing by taking it back to a simpler, sillier, time.

 

Behind The Scenes: Secret Diary Of Benjamin Haworth Age 47 3/4

What is a press launch these days? Who benefits? Who gets shortchanged? Are they immoral? Are they ecologically indefensible? Is he overthinking it all? Benji gives you a peek behind the scenes on a press launch.

 

International Adventure: Last Minute Tuscany

Sanny ditches the traditional endless planning of a bikepacking trip, and jumps all in last minute.

 

Column: Where are we going?

With geometry, that is. Benji opines on what is right and wrong with the world of mountain bikes right now.

 

UK Adventure: Handbagging

After a lifetime of thinking it could never happen for him, Neil Russell and friends set out to bag a Munro – on a handcycle.

 

MTB Culture: Digital Detox

Could you leave all of your electronic gadgets behind on a ride? No GPS, no Strava, no phone. How about three rides in a row? Chipps takes on the challenge.

 

Through The Grinder

If you rest you rust, and there’s no rest for the wicked… so no rust on this batch of wicked products then, tested by Singletrack gang.

 

MTB Culture: Calculated Risks

Hannah reveals the careful behind-the-scenes work that brings the wild spectacle of Red Bull Rampage to the masses.

 

Last Word: Staying young

Hannah’s nerves age a little as her husband chases youth.