The Schwalbe Tacky Chan has a surprise up its sleeve: it's less draggy and tiring on autumn-winter trail-enduro rides of decent length.
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Build Your Dream – From Road to Rad with Chris Burkard
If your friends are all riding road, shake their heads, and tell you they like their shins unblemished and their tyres skinny, then show them this video. Photographer Chris Burkard has gone from road and endurance riding to a seriously rad back yard set up…
Schwalbe Wicked Will Tyre – All Round Fast Trail Rubber
What is it with Schwalbe’s crazy tyre nomenclature? Not to be confused with the cartoon, talking penis, Wicked Willie, the new Schwalbe Wicked Will promises to be the all-round trail tyre that most of us all-round riders are actually after… As Schwalbe says of the…
Schwalbe release 5 new Super casings plus updated Nobby Nic and Big Betty
Schwalbe reintroduces the Big Betty, revamps the Nobby Nic and introduces an entirely new range of Super casings for 2021. The pandemic has made keeping products a secret even more difficult than ever before, so while today is the official release of the new Schwalbe…
Dorval AM Team announces 2020 sponsors
Just when you thought DH Team news was coming to an end, Dorval shows up with a host of new sponsors. The Dorval AM Racing DH Team has announced it’s full roster of team sponsors for the 2020 season, reminding us that the world of…
The £17,000+ mountain bike: This is how to build the world’s most expensive mountain bike
Using 15 of the most expensive parts, a handmade frame, and a wireless groupset you could build a bike worth over £17,000+. You could also buy 2 or 3 cars for that! If anyone is familiar with Viceland, you may know that they put together…
Review: The Schwalbe Airmax Pro may be the cheapest pressure gauge on test, but its damn useful
Just how important is it to set your tyres to the right pressure? According to Wil, it is VERY important, and it can make a huge difference to how your bike rides on the trail. In a quest to find the best tool for the…
Rubber Round-Up: New Tyres Of Eurobike
‘Are you interested in e-bikes?’. It was hard not to roll your eyes when being asked this again. It’s where the market is at, everyone is trying to cash in, and that includes the tyre manufacturers – which isn’t surprising, as tyre choice has certainly…
You Won’t Know Wolfpack Tires Or Wolfgang Arenz Yet, But You’ve Probably Already Ridden His Inventions
We’re fairly certain you won’t have heard of Wolfpack Tires, or Wolfgang Arenz the man behind the brand, but you will most certainly know some of the products he helped develop. Wolfgang is a compounder, basically, someone who works on mixing different rubber compounds to…
Schwalbe’s new Eddy Current is more aggro than a Magic Mary
Schwalbe has a new tyre on show at Eurobike, and it’s called the Eddy Current (we’re not sure how Melbourne band, Eddy Current Suppression Ring feels about the name of Schwalbe’s new tyre). Technically, there’s actually two new tyres though, since the Eddy Current features…
2.6in Tyre Grouptest – Schwalbe Nobby Nic APEX Addix Speedgrip Tyre Review
The Nobby Nic is a well-loved tyre from Schwalbe, which has recently been bolstered with the new Addix rubber compound and a ‘plus-minus’ 2.6in width option. To put these new not-quite-regular-not-quite-plus tyres to the test along with three other pairs of 2.6in wide tyres, we…
Review: Schwalbe Rocket Ron Addix Speed. Fast XC tyres that last.
Claiming to offer more grip, faster rolling and improved durability, Schwalbe’s new Addix rubber compound has been implemented throughout its entire mountain bike tyre range, replacing the previous PaceStar, TrailStar and VertStar compounds in the process. Our resident pedal-head, Rachel Sokal, has been putting the…
Review: High Tech Trail Tyre Group Test
James put 10 burly trail tyres to the test. Few survived. Read the full results to find out which ones he recommends.
Review: Schwalbe Hans Dampf Super Gravity 27.5×2.35in Tyre
Schwalbe has updated the Hans Dampf tyre with a new Addix rubber compound. Is it grippier, faster and more durable? James investigates
Fresh Goods Friday 356
It's Friday. Have a beer. And a new Canyon. And some high-tech tyres from Schwalbe. And some trick brakes. And loads of other mad stuff.
Schwalbe Unveils New ADDIX Rubber Compound
Schwalbe claims ADDIX is the most advanced tyre rubber compound on planet earth. So what is it? We take a closer look
Schwalbe Collaborates With Airshot For Tire Booster
A new tubeless tyre inflator has been released by German brand Schwalbe following a collaboration with Welsh-based Airshot
Eurobike Trends: 2.6″ Wide Tyres
Is 2.6in the tyre width to end all tyre widths? Wil investigates with some examples from Eurobike 2016 to see what may be coming
Schwalbe’s Tyre Tread Cutter
For when your brand new tyre isn't good enough. Now you can trim and tune it by chopping rubber
Fresh Goods Friday 280
All the sauce this week from the dripping hot office Tamales. New bike gear, red hot, just for you
Fresh Goods Friday 273
Welcome here, my friends, to the show that never ends - it's the first Fresh Goods of 2016!
Found at EWS Finale – Greg Callaghan’s Cube Stereo 160 C:68
After moving from Privateer to full team support with the Cube Action Team, Greg Callaghan’s had a hell of a good year. Here’s the bike he’s finishing his season on, a Cube Stereo 160 C:68 specially set up for the final Enduro World Series round…
Schwalbe Procore: First Impressions
We've had a Procore system for a few weeks now. Long enough to get some first impressions down on digital paper for you.
Fresh Goods Friday 244
Another mouthwatering pile of ORSUM from Cove, Saracen, Hope, Schwalbe AND LOTS MORE!
Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro 29
Want to minimise ice-related downtime? Of course you do. Get some spiked tyres, then
CoreBike2015 Part1
A quick look at what was on offer at the Core Bike Show today from Schwalbe, Ibis, WTB, MRP
Midweek Mini Movies 220
Here's another pure dollop of unfettered Midweek Movies, champing at the bit and mixing metaphors like a bull at a gate
Eurobike 2014: Schwalbe Procore Dual Chamber Tyre
Schwalbe has developed a MTB tyre that features dual air chambers that it claims pretty much eliminates both pinches and burps.
New Nobby Nic does more everything than ever before
Faster and grippier with improved SnakeSkin casing
Fresh Goods Friday 165
We're all out riding now if the plan has gone to, erm, plan. But we travelled back ion time to bring you the Fresh Goods. Or something.
Eurobike 2013: Schwalbe Tyres
We know Schwalbe still makes 26in, but it wasn't exactly showing any. There is a 29in mud tyre though
Eurobike 2012: Schwalbe’s New Rubber
Skinny and fast, fat and sticky, plus tyres for the 'Third Way'
Fresh Goods Friday 109
Loads of rubber for tyre fetishists, a retro jersey and some more pretty wheels - time for lunch break kit lusting
Schwalbe Adds 650B Tyres
Medium Schwalbes (for the bike you don't own yet) coming to you this autumn.
Core Bike: Premier Image Dump
We're back from Core Bike and here's a quick download of the highlights for Premier folks. Regular stories tomorrow!
Fresh Goods
This week's deliveries, with new rubber, cameras, carbon brakes, clothing and much more...
Long Termer Review: Yeti ASR5
Tom dB's been tweaking his Yeti with new wheels, a single ring setup and new brakes...
Fat Albert is Ten Years Old
The old Schwalbe Fat Albert was a bit of a quiet favourite among the Singletrack Rubber Geeks. Here's details of the new version.
Core Bike News
Some 2009 and 'who knows when?' stuff from the Core Bike Show last week. New stuff from Evil, Hope (including about a million more wheel options - and brown stuff!), Surly, Fox and DMR...