Words Chipps Event organisers and the cycle of abuse, forgiveness and eventual love. As well as writing about bikes and the people behind them, I’ve been involved in organising mountain…
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Singletrack Magazine Issue 114: Azores
Karen Eller and pals take a trip to the ‘so foreign, yet so close’ mid-Atlantic jungle wonderland – The Azores. Words Karen Eller Photography Maria Knoll
Singletrack Magazine issue 114: (Hand) Made In China
Chipps follows the path of an Asian-made bike from concept sketch to mountainside testing. Words and photography Chipps I’ve always wanted to follow the development of a product from first-sketch…
Singletrack issue 114: Snowdon
Tom Fenton explores one of the ultimate must-do locations in British mountain biking. That highest, pointiest bit of Wales – Mount Snowdon. Words Tom Fenton Photography Andy Heading Apparently, an…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 114: Northern Island
Ulster Says Yes! Ian from Rock and Ride Outdoors shows us round his home trails in Northern Ireland. Words Ian Bailey Photography Caolan Hawkins Loosely tracking a section of the…
Singletrack Magazine issue 114:The Black Fuel
Words & photography Rob Crayons Last issue, Chipps filled his crystal tumbler and took us through five of his top armchair whiskies. This time we look to Rob Crayons and…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 114: Keith Bontrager
“Strong, light, cheap – pick two.” Mountain bike pioneer, product designer, agitator. Words Chipps Photography Chipps and Steve Behr Keith Bontrager has been a bike industry name since the earliest…
Singletrack Magazine issue 114: Shropshire
Barney heads off to Shropshire to try to answer a question which has been bugging him – why are there so many good riders from such a quiet county? Words…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : Dunkeld Exposé
We sent Pete Scullion to the small Scottish town of Dunkeld to see if it really is the best mountain bike town you’ve never heard of… Words & Photography Pete…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : La Pura Vida
Living life to the full in Costa Rica. Words Holger Meyer Photography Sebastian Doerk There’s a hectic bustle going on at San José’s airport exit. A man tugs at my…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : Borderlands
Olly Townsend sneaks up to nearly touch the Scottish border in this most northerly and unridden of English counties. Words & Photography Olly Townsend Apparently, there’s a widely held view…
Singletrack Magazine issue 113 : Kit Bag
Bothy Bag Kit Bag is our chance to have a nosy inside the bags carried by riders from different branches of the mountain bike tree. Each bag has been refined…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : The Winter Sun Chancers
Words and Photography Antony de Heveningham The post-Christmas period is a dark time for mountain biking in the UK. Fitness and motivation are low and the only thing on the…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : Staying Intense
Jeff Steber: Staying Intense The founder of Intense, Jeff Steber, talks to Chipps about keeping up with the times and thinking about the future. Without forgetting the past. Words and…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 113 : Gettin’ Grizzly
Tom Fenton’s search for the must-do trails of the UK has resulted in some surprising soul-searching. And a great lap of Grizedale Forest in the Lake District. Words Tom Fenton…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 112 : Cannocking on heavens door
In this slightly unusual Classic Ride, Barney takes the Chase to Cannock… Words & Photography Barney Marsh Before we begin, a quick word in your shell-like, if I may –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…