After a delayed start and a restructured season, the EWS shifts gears again, cancelling the remaining rounds and ending with a finale in Finale. The EWS organisers have announced that the 2020 series will end in Finale Ligure, with two back to back weekends of…
COVID-19
Les Gets World Cup Now Cancelled!
Both the XC and DH World Cup rounds for Les Gets have been cancelled shrinking the already smaller than usual World Cup season to just 5 races in total. Sad news race fans, Les Gets is off the schedule for 2020 as the UCI confirms…
Diversion Diary – Know Your Place
Hannah’s partner, BK, lives in the USA, and lockdown has kept them apart. Each week, she brings us some lonesome ramblings, plus a selection of internet finds. This week she’s looking at the land beyond the trails. As much as I enjoy the adrenaline rush…
Love Our Lockdown Cover? Get A Piece Of It!
We’re so excited about the lockdown cover that we’ve created a bunch of new products celebrating its awesomeness, and all the different ways you have got yourselves through the last few months. I am a great believer that mountain biking is not really about bikes.…
Val Di Sole World Cup DH and XC Rounds Cancelled
Despite the UCI’s best efforts to get a new race schedule in place, already the plans for the MTB World CUpare coming apart as the proposed Val di Sole round is cancelled. As the Simon Burney made clear in his interview with us last week,…
2020 MTB World Cup | Your Questions Answered With UCI’s Simon Burney
In This week’s Making Up The Numbers podcast, we were lucky enough to have Simon Burney join the team to answer all the burning questions about that new eight race 2020 Mountain Bike World Cup season ahead. It’s clear that the UCI wants a 2020…
Diversion Diary – Little Details And Small Acts of Kindness
Hannah is alone during lockdown since her partner lives in the USA. Each week, she brings us some ramblings, plus a selection of the internet she’s been using to keep herself company. This week she goes all macro on kindness. The past week has contrived…
More EWS 2020 Dates Announced!
There’s still some hope that the Race Series could be held later this year, with more EWS 2020 dates just announced. More dates have been added to the 2020 Enduro World Series Calander as organisers rush to salvage a season before the end of the…
Diversion Diary | Green Shoots and Hopeful Hippies
Just like all of us, Hannah is looking to survive the social distancing and lockdown. The Diversion Diary is a tale of love under lockdown, and bikes. Only, there’s an added twist: Hannah’s partner, BK, lives in the USA, and they’re locked down on different…
8 Ways To Turn Your Daily Exercise Ride Into A Life Long Habit
For years active travel campaigners have been trying to persuade us to leave the car at home. They’ve shown us how expensive it is to run a car, they’ve told us about the environmental impact of cars, they’ve asked for segregated cycle lanes, wished for…
Hope and Commencal are 3D printing PPE masks for hospitals
Commencal and Hope Technology have put aside printing prototypes to help 3D print PPE face masks for local hospitals. Although it’s a sad and crazy time, it has also been a time that has shown the cycling industry give back to the local community. During…
Keep Fit | The Gowaan Gals 20min HIIT Lockdown Workout
EWS racer Chloe Taylor teams up with the Gowaan Gals to help you keep fit at home with this 20min lockdown workout. It takes a lot of motivation in this time of uncertainty for us to stay healthy and active, that’s why I’ve partnered up…
How to be a dick during the Coronavirus
Never one not to be topical, or controversial, Sanny is back with his latest in his “How to be a dick….” Series. This time he sets his sights on a topic that we are all too familiar with. The following opinions are not necessarily those…
Sea Otter Europe Gets a new date 25-27th September
Sea Otter Europe gets new dates in September after originally being scheduled for May 2020. If might feel like that this epidemic is only just starting, but events are still aiming to go ahead as normal albeit at a later date. The European leg of…
10 Tips to Surviving The Coronavirus Lockdown as a Mountain Biker
We’re all about the outdoors which can be difficult during the current epidemic, so here are our 10 Tips to Surviving Coronavirus Lockdown. Even with all the latest advice and restrictions in front of you, it’s still pretty hard to plan what riding you can…
Hope Technology temporarily suspends production due to Covid-19
Hope Technology has just announced that it will be temporarily suspending production due to Covid-19. Hope Technology has made the decision to suspend production at its facilities in the UK due to the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic. Hope will initially close for 3 weeks and then…
Backyard bikeparks and Chameleons this is what the pros do in lockdown part 2
We catch up with what the pros are up to while keeping at home during the lockdown, but we can’t decide if we’d rather play with a chameleon or be more like Akrigg. Greg Minnaar Chris Akrigg Nigel Page Richard Gasperotti Loose Dog Lewis Jack…
Did YT just leak a new bike in their message about the Covid-19 lockdown?
YT Industries posted a video yesterday to stress the importance of following lockdown rules, but in the making of it, they’ve leaked a new YT model not yet on sale! The Live Caged video from YT features YT’s founder, Markus Flossmann and CTO Chris Hilton,…
Diversion Diary | How To Find Silence In A Virtual World
Just like all of us, Hannah is looking to survive the social distancing and lockdown. Only, there’s already a heap of distance between her and her partner BK, who lives in the USA. In some respects this week was easier, in that everyone was now…
Monkeys Sauce starts production of Hydroalcoholic Gel for hospitals
French company Monkeys Sauce has shifted production from sealant and bike cleaning products to manufacture Hydroalcoholic Gel for hospitals. It’s at times like these that we’re proud to be part of the mountain bike community, and as the world goes into lockdown, athletes, brands and…
FREE Singletrack Magazine Corona Survival Pack
Perhaps the title is a bit over dramatic but we really do appreciate all the support you have been giving us over the past week and we are going to do our very best to repay you with distractions and entertainment for as long as…
Are Bike Shops Seeing A Coronavirus Boost?
Perhaps contrary to expectations, bike shops up and down the country have reported exceptional demand today. Requests for servicing of bikes, as well as sales, were on a par with the busiest days of summer. One shop reported their 7th busiest day of trading ever,…
UPDATED! The Singletrack Guide To Riding During COVID-19
Thinking of riding during COVID-19? Read this first. UPDATED March 23rd 8:45pm Boris Johnson has announced new sweeping restrictions on the public that include only leaving the house for very limited purposes like vital shopping or once daily exercise. The limit on exercise does include…
Fresh Goods Podcast 492 | The hunker down for the long haul edition
This week Chipps beams his editorial and comment from isolation and Andy starts to sniffle. Amanda boils down the entire issue 130 contents to just 30 seconds and Mark explains why we now need you all more than ever.
This is what the pros do when they self-isolate
What do the pros do when they can’t race, or go out to train during the Coronavirus shutdown? Well, some train and others go bonkers! Josh Bryceland – Gravel jibbing Alex Marin – Indoor DH race runs Loic Bruni – Instagram Live Spin Classes Yoann…
Break the self-isolation boredom with Loic Bruni’s Instagram Live Spinning Class
Join Loic Bruni in an Instagram Live spinning class tomorrow and take a break from all the Covid-19 bad news. There is a lot to like about Loic Bruni. He has the same birthday as me, which makes him awesome, he is insanely good on…
IMBA Statement On Mountain Biking And COVID-19
IMBA – the International Mountain Biking Association, an advocacy group which is very influential in the USA and other parts of the world, but less prominent in the UK, has issued the following message to its members on mountain biking during the COVID-19 pandemic. To…
TweedLove Reschedule 80% of 2020 Events Calendar
It’s not unexpected, but with TweedLove’s COVID-19 induced reschedule, it’s a huge chunk of the cycling calendar being shifted. You have until 31st March to claim a refund if you can’t make the new dates. In response to the global CV-19 outbreak, TweedLove organisers Hillside…
Diversion Diary – Alone During Corona Virus Lockdown
Just like all of us, Hannah is looking to survive the social distancing and lockdown. Only, there’s already a heap of distance between her and the one she loves. My partner lives in the USA. This situation is less than ideal, but it’s how it…
Fort William DH World Cup Hasn’t Been Postponed … Yet!
The event organisers of the Fort William Downhill World Cup have posted a statement telling that the race is still on, at least for now. As events around the world are put on hold, we’ve been speaking to people in the know about the possibility…
London Bike Show Postponed due to … you already know!
Another of the year’s big bike bonanzas has been postponed due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. London Bike Show won’t go ahead as planned. The London Bike Show is following in the same footsteps as the first round of the downhill WC, the first two rounds…