Over the last year, our writers have tested a bucketful of bikes, a barn load of clothing and gear, and attended a bookcase full of cycling events. Which of these, though, have tickled their fancies enough to warrant the bestowing of a coveted Singletrack Editors’…
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Lapierre E.I. Shock: First Ride
An in-depth look at the world's first automatic suspension system managed by 'electronic intelligence'. Could this be the future?
Video: The Electric Future? Lapierre’s E.I. Shock
New terrain sensitive adaptive shock - here's Jeremiah Boobar of Rock Shox explaining it, exclusively for Premier Users
Fresh Goods Friday 169
Carbon rims, bargain big wheels, more forks than an industrial caterers and some racks for bouncers
Fresh Goods Friday 157
New 29er forks from Fox and RS, a bargain big wheel commuter, plus a stem with a 'sex bolt'
SRAM 2012: Rise 60 carbon wheelset first ride
Plus look at alloy rimmed Rise 40 and tuning options on Monarch Plus air shocks
SRAM and Rock Shox 2012 at Pass’portes Du Soleil
New internally routed Rock Shox Reverb Stealth launches plus more detail on SRAM X0 DH
Longtermer – Finally. Matt’s Lapierre Spicy 517
Tested – 6 months with gaps so far. From – Hotlines. RRP £3299.00 Ahhh – It had been an emotional time with the Spicy – a good year , only marred by the burglary in November After grieving and wailing for some time, Hotlines the…
Fresh Goods
Welcome to Fresh Goods Friday – the final one of 2010. We’ve been out of the office for a while, enjoying the festive season by pointedly not looking at the computer, so there’s been a backlog of the shiny things arriving in the office. It’s…
Rock Shox Lyrik Solo Air
Standing in the queue for the bike-park gondola I compared my Solo Air to a triple-clamp fork on someone else’s late 90’s downhill bike. With 35mm stanchions the single crown Lyric made the other fork look weedy. To have a fork that is as strong…
Sram 2009 (or is it 2010? it’s hard to keep up)
Matt and Jonny headed down to Afan Argoed t'other day to be shown some new stuff by Elmar from Sram. Rock Shox Revelation forks, Avid Elixir CR brakes, centre-lock disc rotors, Truvativ seat posts, next generation bubble wrap and more...