Goggle Grouptest | We ran 5 pairs of goggles through the winter, and this is the result

Goggle Grouptest | We ran 5 pairs of goggles through the winter, and this is the result

Riding in the winter can be pretty shit. So with the hope of trying to make it less so, we’ve put five pairs of goggles to the test through an…

Review | The 100% Racecraft Goggles have literally 20 options for you to choose from

Review | The 100% Racecraft Goggles have literally 20 options for you to choose from

What are the best goggles for mountain biking? We brought together five pairs from 100%, Dragon Alliance, Julbo POC, Scott, and put them in the hands of our goggle aficionado…

Leatt’s New Goggles Are Bulletproof, And That’s Not Even The Best Bit!

Leatt’s New Goggles Are Bulletproof, And That’s Not Even The Best Bit!

Today, Leatt has added to its range of protective gear with some new DH/Enduro/Motocross goggles called the Velocity 6.5. They have been designed from the ground-up with several neat features.…

Formula Teases Selva Coil Fork And Confirms New UK Distributor

Formula Teases Selva Coil Fork And Confirms New UK Distributor

Everyone loves a ‘Proto’ sticker, don’t they? And seeing the rows of bikes at the Formula truck at Bike Connection Winter, there was definitely something up. A quick glance at…

Interview: Gowaan Gals – Give It A Go And Remember To Be Silly!

Interview: Gowaan Gals – Give It A Go And Remember To Be Silly!

It’s the last month of our Inspiring Women interview series and we’ve saved the most fun for last after I spent a very entertaining evening chatting to Enduro racers Bex…

Review: Vee Tire Flow Snap + Enduro Core 29×2.6in Tyre

Review: Vee Tire Flow Snap + Enduro Core 29×2.6in Tyre

Tyres, as many of you know, represent perhaps the least sexy but certainly one of the most emphatic ways to alter your ride. From those proponents of the ‘fit once…

Win £2600-Worth Of Entries To The UK’s Newest Multi-Day Race – The Wales360!

Win £2600-Worth Of Entries To The UK’s Newest Multi-Day Race – The Wales360!

There’s a new multi-day mountain bike event in the UK, and we’ve got one free pairs entry for the 2019 event to give away to a very lucky Singletrack reader!…

2019 YT Range Launches But Where’s The Jeffsy?

2019 YT Range Launches But Where’s The Jeffsy?

YT bikes have updated its complete range of bikes for 2019 and have already posted them to the official YT website, well they’ve all been updated bar one. 2019 YT…

Still Looking For The Perfect Pressie? What About The Commencal Meta AM 29 SRAM Edition?

Still Looking For The Perfect Pressie? What About The Commencal Meta AM 29 SRAM Edition?

Followers of the Downhill WC and EWS will already be familiar with the winning combination of Commencal frames and SRAM components, and if you’ve ever wondered if you could emulate…

It’s Official Adam Brayton & Meg Whyte Join Nukeproof For 2019

It’s Official Adam Brayton & Meg Whyte Join Nukeproof For 2019

Team rumours are becoming team fact with the confirmation that both Adam Brayton and Meg Whyte will be on Nukeproof bikes for the 2019 season!. Adam Brayton remains on the…

Tweedlove Transcend Epic Promises To Change Scottish Enduro Forever!

Tweedlove Transcend Epic Promises To Change Scottish Enduro Forever!

For years the Tweedlove Festival has done much to promote the Peebles and Innerleithen areas and to make things like the Golfie trails into mountain bike household knowledge. However, after…

Hope / PMBA Enduro Series 2019 – Entries Live Saturday 17th

Hope / PMBA Enduro Series 2019 – Entries Live Saturday 17th

Forget all about having an extra long lie in tomorrow morning, you need to be up, fresh and ready to hit the ‘Enter’ button for the 2019 Hope PMBA Enduro…

80° seat tube! Pole Stamina Pre-Sales To Start Next Week

80° seat tube! Pole Stamina Pre-Sales To Start Next Week

Just 1 month ago we wrote a story about the Finnish brand Pole and their plan to release another bike using its unique CNC/Bonded frame construction method. Since that initial…

EWS Says Doping Tests Are Not New

EWS Says Doping Tests Are Not New

EWS say doping controls at Enduro events is NOT new despite rumours

Not A Butcher And Not Quite A Hillbilly – Specialized Announces All-New Eliminator Tyre

Not A Butcher And Not Quite A Hillbilly – Specialized Announces All-New Eliminator Tyre

We’re well and truly on our way to winter, and although the weather is turning the trails haven’t quite decided how they want to run. Somedays they run greasy and…

‘Ard Rock Enduro Festival 2019 Dates Announced

‘Ard Rock Enduro Festival 2019 Dates Announced

Save the dates! The 2019 Ard Rock Enduro Festival, the winner of the Singletrack Readers Awards 2018 for best event, will take place from 2-4 August with entries for the popular…

Nukeproof Dives Into 2019 With Range Update

Nukeproof Dives Into 2019 With Range Update

Today sees the launch of a 2019 ‘range update’ from Nukeproof Bikes. Although there isn’t anything glaringly new in the line up, there are a few tweaks and alterations to…

First Look: Nordest Bardino Ti Prototype A “Fast And Silent” Enduro Hardtail From Tenerife

First Look: Nordest Bardino Ti Prototype A “Fast And Silent” Enduro Hardtail From Tenerife

Nordest is based in Tenerife (lucky so and so’s) so it makes bikes that suit the rocky, volcanic trails they have on the sun-kissed island. The current range includes a…

2019 DVO D1 Fork Range Announced Along with Topaz And Garnett Updates

2019 DVO D1 Fork Range Announced Along with Topaz And Garnett Updates

For the 2019 season DVO, a brand made up of ex-Marzocchi employees has created a whole new premium range of suspension forks named D1. D1 forks have already been spotted…

First Ride – Focus SAM 2019, 170mm Of Enduro Travel With Trail Bike Handling

First Ride – Focus SAM 2019, 170mm Of Enduro Travel With Trail Bike Handling

Our guy Rik Legge got the chance to ride the new Focus SAM at for a day at the recent launch event. Here are his first impressions. Focus has just…

Review: Met Roam Helmet – Keep cool and look cool

Review: Met Roam Helmet – Keep cool and look cool

Described as ‘an all-mountain enduro helmet’, the MET Roam is designed to combine streamlined enduro styling and goggle compatibility with hours-in-the-saddle trail-riding wearability. Straight out of the box, and it’s…

Check It Out! Sam Hill’s Custom “Día de Muertos” Nukeproof Mega 275c

Check It Out! Sam Hill’s Custom “Día de Muertos” Nukeproof Mega 275c

Sam Hill has continued to smash the EWS this year, not bad for a rider on flat pedals who still runs those tiny 27.5in wheels. As a bit of a…

It’s Not Friday The 13th But It Is Fresh Goods Friday The 413th – The No Shock Or Gore Edition

It’s Not Friday The 13th But It Is Fresh Goods Friday The 413th – The No Shock Or Gore Edition

After the shock and Gore of last weeks Fresh Goods Friday we decided to tone things down a little for this week with a few nice items, a lovely looking…

The Most Shocking Bit About Yeti’s New SB150 29er Enduro Bike – Is The Colour!

The Most Shocking Bit About Yeti’s New SB150 29er Enduro Bike – Is The Colour!

If you're looking for something big and fast, could this be what you're looking for? We check out the latest bike from Yeti.

So that’s where all of the country’s carbon enduro bikes (and T5 campers) went this weekend? The Ard Rock Enduro!

So that’s where all of the country’s carbon enduro bikes (and T5 campers) went this weekend? The Ard Rock Enduro!

The ‘Ard Rock Enduro once again showed that it has become the event of the year for trail riders to be at. With a greatly expanded event village and a…

First Look: X-Fusion TRACE 36 HLR Big Travel 29er Enduro Fork

First Look: X-Fusion TRACE 36 HLR Big Travel 29er Enduro Fork

X-Fusion is looking to boost its big wheel Enduro credentials with its latest 36mm fork, the TRACE 36. You may have already seen this fork in Fresh Goods last week,…

Behold! Limited Edition Gold Leaf Pedroni Lupo Carbon Gara

Behold! Limited Edition Gold Leaf Pedroni Lupo Carbon Gara

Pedroni is an Italian bike brand that still manufactures all of its carbon and alloy frames in Italy. Being located right in the heart of Italy’s ‘motor city’, you know…

Alutech Bikes Fanes 170mm Travel, NFC Equipped, Enduro Bike Plus More

Alutech Bikes Fanes 170mm Travel, NFC Equipped, Enduro Bike Plus More

If you’re a fan of direct sales brands there’s already a good chance that you’ve heard of Alutech, they’ve been gaining popularity over the years due to the rise in…

The Santa Cruz Bronson Is Dead. Long Live The Bronson! (And the Roubion)

The Santa Cruz Bronson Is Dead. Long Live The Bronson! (And the Roubion)

Along with Shimano’s new XTR groupset, the new Santa Cruz Bronson’s release this year was always going to be a definite, and much anticipated event. It wasn’t a case of…

Victorious Underdogs – Number 2 Plates Rule Tweedlove’s British Champs

Victorious Underdogs – Number 2 Plates Rule Tweedlove’s British Champs

What a Tweedlove finale! Crowning the midsummer cycling festival (that actually starts in March and finishes at the end of August…) of Tweedlove this year was the British Enduro Championships.…

Water Pistols, Demos And World Class Enduro. Tweedlove 2018 Fires Up.

Water Pistols, Demos And World Class Enduro. Tweedlove 2018 Fires Up.

The jewel of the Tweedlove festival – the big weekend of the Whyte British Enduro Championships is well underway and we’ve been running around, getting a full taste of things.…

First Look: Commencal Meta AM 29 Team Edition

First Look: Commencal Meta AM 29 Team Edition

Commencal sent teaser images of the Commencal Meta AM 29 a few weeks back, and we’ve since spotted the big wheel bike in action on the Enduro World Series. But…

The Boltby Bash Enduro 2018 brings dust-in-Yorkshire shocker!

The Boltby Bash Enduro 2018 brings dust-in-Yorkshire shocker!

Implausibly for some there was an era of mountain biking that existed before Enduro racing. Let’s call this time BE, Before Enduro. In these times gone by, not only did…

Mondraker Carbon Foxy 29er – The Most Obvious Bike Ever

Mondraker Carbon Foxy 29er – The Most Obvious Bike Ever

Given that Mondraker has already launched a 27.5in carbon Foxy bike, the fact that it was going to launch a 29er version of the acclaimed Foxy took no great deducing.…

Cube Stereo 150 Rolls On Bigger Wheels With Enduro Geo

Cube Stereo 150 Rolls On Bigger Wheels With Enduro Geo

Cube has gone and given its EWS team a new tool to compete on and it is now available for us mere mortals to buy and ride.

Propain Hugene – A 29er ‘that doesn’t feel boring’

Propain Hugene – A 29er ‘that doesn’t feel boring’

Propain is a small German maker of carbon trail and enduro bikes and you might have seen or heard about the Tyee – the company’s 160mm travel 27.5in trail bike.…

Bold Unplugged. The Neatest Full Susser Ever?

Bold Unplugged. The Neatest Full Susser Ever?

Swiss company, Bold, was showing off its latest trail bike at this year’s Sea Otter. Featuring 170mm (or 180) travel up front and 165mm rear travel, so far so normal,…

Behold The Pole Machine

Behold The Pole Machine

The Pole bike company (confusingly from Finland) has always done things a little differently. And rather than go to Taiwan to make a carbon premium frame, it decided to machine…

First Look: The Marzocchi Z1 Bomber Returns! Own The Trails Again…

First Look: The Marzocchi Z1 Bomber Returns! Own The Trails Again…

One of the most iconic mountain bike fork names has returned, and it’s doing so in a typically unapologetic fashion. Yes, after an absence of many years, the Marzocchi Z1…

TweedLove’s Mega Bike Demo – Scotland’s only opportunity to demo the Hope HB160, plus many more!

TweedLove’s Mega Bike Demo – Scotland’s only opportunity to demo the Hope HB160, plus many more!

Want to test one of your dream bikes? Do a bit of window shopping? We’ve just had news that the TweedLove Mega Bike Demo website is going live from 8.30pm…

2018 EWS Team Roster Roundup

2018 EWS Team Roster Roundup

The who's who of the 2018 EWS race season.

Review: Deuter Attack Enduro 16 Bag – capable of carrying a full face helmet

Review: Deuter Attack Enduro 16 Bag – capable of carrying a full face helmet

Hannah'd been carrying and crashing this pack around for 7 months - how has she got on?