Singletrack Magazine Issue 70 & Editors’ Choice Digital Edition out now

If you’re a print subscriber then hopefully your magazine will have landed on your doormat by now, but if you leave at that then you’re missing out on a whole load of extra subscriber-only content. As well as getting the magazine in a number of formats to read on the device of your choice, we’ve stuffed the digital issue full of extra videos, galleries, route guide maps and downloadable GPX maps.

See below to find out more…

Issue 70 Contents

9. Editorial
Chipps draws an obscure link between Pernod and summer switchbacks.

10. Classic Rides: The Edale Loop.
Everybody knows where Edale is. Jon and Jenn venture out to make sure it’s still where they left it.

20. UK Riding: Living the Dream
Ever watch a riding video and think ‘I want to ride there too!’? Well, Sim and Dave Flynn did just that and made a pilgrimage to Ben A’an in Scotland to ride a distant trail glimpsed once.

30. Blame the Dog
Mike Ferrentino’s regular look at the bicycle world from the other side of the pond.

32. Interview: Oli Beckingsale
Benji catches up (it wasn’t hard, he was on crutches) with one of the UK’s most enduring cross-country racers and top bloke too.

42. Bike Test: Thousand Pounders
Benji rounds up three full suspension bikes around the magic ‘bag of sand’ price.

Lapierre X-Control 110

Focus Super Bud 5.0

Mongoose Salvo Comp

54. Fitness Answers
Singletrack has a newly expanded panel of fitness experts and they’re already being tested by your questions.

58. Destination X
Where do Alpine tour operators go when they want to ride bikes for fun? Jon follows a secret trail of breadcrumbs to a lesser known part of the French mountains.

Destination X-tras

70. Singletrack Premier
Got a subscription? Got an iPad (or an iPhone, Android, Kindle, etc…)? Get them linked up by upgrading to Premier. No idea what we’re talking about? Get a £2 sub.

72. Mini Grouptest: Lights
Dave A tested ten handlebar lights, then picked his three favourites.

Premier Users can see the best of the rest reviewed here…

74. Through the Grinder
Eight pages of real products tested to tearing, breaking or just breaking in by our team of paid thugs.

84. Grinder Bike
Benji gets cracking on Transition’s niche-killing Covert.

86. SRAM Factor
The other Big S company has a whole facility in a corner of Germany. But what do they all do? Dave and Sim get personal, photographic and pally.

100. Grouptest: 2012 Disc Brakes
Benji tests ten of the newest disc brakes in time for your Christmas shopping.

108. Column: Roly Lambert
If you think that you have a cluttered shed, you’ve not seen Roly’s. Or heard his excuses – sorry, ‘reasons’ – for more bikes.

110. Propaganda
It’s Christmas time at Singletrack Towers. We’re un-celebrating in our usual style.

112. Route Guide: Caldbeck Fells
Benji has an adventure on some lesser known Lakeland trails ‘round the back of Skiddaw.

Click here to download the GPX file and here to download the route PDF.

Click here to download the GPX file and here to download the route PDF.

 

122. Premier Club
Subscribe to Singletrack? Then you get all sorts of discounts with these folks.

126. Outro
Chipps recalls meeting the real Evel Knievel – at a bicycle show.

Editors’ Choice 2011 Subscriber only digital supplement

 

The Singletrack crew choose their favourite things of the year in a special, digital-only supplement. It’s packed with the products, places and races that made 2011 special for them, complete with loads of lovely pictures and interactive extras…

Editors’ Choice Extra – Chipps

Editors’ Choice Extra – Matt

Editors’ Choice Extra – Sim

Editors’ Choice Extra – Jon

Editors’ Choice Extra – Jenn

Editors’ Choice Extra – Dave

Editors’ Choice Extra – Mark

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