Filling a substantial portion of the Scott Sports booth, Syncros debuted a smattering of new products at Eurobike 2018, including…
July 2018

19 Hot Products From Eurobike 2018
After three days of non-stop action, the Singletrack Eurobike Dream Team has finally returned to the motherland! It’s been an…

Magura Celebrates 125 Years With LTD Edition MT1893 Disc Brake, Plus More From Eurobike
Magura really pushed the boat out for Eurobike 2018, unveiling not one or two new brakes, but seven new or…

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…

The new Funn UpDown dropper post is ‘self-healing’ and it even fixes itself on the trail
Funn has had its Updown dropper post available for a couple of years now, but it has very recently introduced…

Get a really good look at the stunning DT Swiss F 535 One fork
Last week we brought you a news story on a long-awaited suspension fork from DT Swiss called the F 535…

Bikes, Beers and Dust: Northern Grip 2018
Northern Grip bills itself as a mountain bike festival: a mix of social rides, bike demos and all the fun…

Spotted! A New Suspension Platform Like We Have Never Seen Before
After all the endless sights of Eurobike, it was on the train back to our apartment that we spotted what…

Video: Check out the brand new 2019 Lapierre Zesty & Spicy
Just yesterday we brought you the news on the brand new 2019 Lapierre Zesty and Spicy models, which have been shown…

Commencal Announces The “Arrogant, Impulsive, Manipulative” Clash
After 3 days of Eurobike fun its hard to believe that there are bike brands not represented at the Messe…

Mega Gallery: 29 Top Bikes Of Eurobike 2018. How Many Of Them Will Be e-Bikes?
For 3 days we have haunted the halls of Eurobike, powered by nothing more than strong coffee and salty pretzels.…

This 2019 Scott Genius has a very clever lever on the rear shock
Looking similar to the current Fox Nude shock on the 2018 Scott Genius, the new version now has a small…

Lone Bicycles Beretta Sticks A Middle Finger Up At Standards
Lone Bicycles is a new French mountain bike brand owned and operated by the same people behind HXR, those clever…

Oakley Teams Up With Minnaar To Create DRT 5 Helmet With “Eyewear Landing Area”
Oakley’s first ever mountain bike helmet has been unveiled and with the help of world-class downhill racer, Greg Minnaar, the…

RST: Radio Controlled Dropper And Beefed Up Forks
We tested the RST Rogue 27.5in fork in Issue 110 of Singletrack magazine, where it was the hands down winner…

Prototype Orange Strange Crush-E. The First Hardcore e-MTB Designed For The UK?
The Orange Crush 29 isn’t the only new hardcore hardtail from the British bike maker at Eurobike, they also have…

Eurobike 2018: New Shimano & Giro shoes, ropey spokes, and a heavier Orange
Swedish brand Thule is expanding its range of hydration backpacks for mountain biking, and chose Eurobike to debut its new…

Orange Crush 29er Spotted At Eurobike
The Orange Crush is the bruiser in Orange’s hardcore hardtail line up, it’s also the only alloy framed hardtail that…

Five Reasons We Might Want To Leave Europe After All: Spotted at Eurobike
We’ve had our heads buried in the world of bikes, and we’ve surfaced at the end of the today to…

Specialized Pumps Up The Epic With The New 2019 Epic EVO
Specialized overhauled the Epic lineup around this time last year, dropping the horst link FSR pivot and a whole load…

Lapierre Launches All New 2019 Zesty, Spicy (and a not-an-e-bike)
The flagship Lapierre models of the Zesty and Spicy have been completely redesigned for 2019, making these some of the…

Bionicon is back and so is its cool geometry adjustment button
We don’t know what it is, but this year’s Eurobike seems to be full of bikes that have geometry adjustment,…

Is This The Goldilocks Casing? Maxxis Launches EXO+
Maxxis has announced a brand new casing option, which we think is going to get a lot of you quite…

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…

A solution to pedal rash, or just more Eurotrash?
It’s my first ever Eurobike and although I was told there would be some weirdness on display I hadn’t realised…

Swedish Huldr A1 Converts From Gearbox DH Bike To 920w e-Beast
We can’t believe that it was only yesterday that we discovered the Kinetic Works Quintessenz, a bike that can easily…

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…

Ghost Bikes: All Coiled For Action
Ghost is a brand we haven’t seen too much of in recent years – although we’re sure you’re all going…

The Hope PrePeaks. The non-competitive, grand day out in the Yorkshire Dales
In association with Hope Technology Hope Technology’s PrePeaks is a non-competitive event that offers a challenging loop of the Yorkshire…

13 Speed Chainless Drivetrain – When engineers think differently
We’ve surely all thought that there must be a better way to operate gears than having a dingley dangly rear…

Spotted: Clothing brand Rocday bring fashion to the trails
Earthy tones, modern designs and high-end fabrics spotted at Eurobike 2018 from Polish clothing brand Rocday. Hiding outside in a…

This Sterling Silver Orange Five XTR Is Stunning!
Orange’s stand at Eurobike is full of new colour options for the coming year, but there was 1 bike in…

Spotted at Eurobike! Fox Live Valve electronic suspension!
These days at Eurobike, journos often get a head start on what’s going to be new at the exhibition. We…

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…

Surly’s Lowside doesn’t have suspension, carbon fibre or 13 gears, but that’s why we love it
Who the heck needs 13-speed when you’ve got a fully rigid singlespeed klunker with 26×3.0in tyres? That’s how we feel…

Exclusive First Look: Ritchey Brings Back The Ultra!
Some 30 years after the original, Ritchey is bringing back the Ultra! Though this one is a little different from…

This Plastic 3D Printed Frame Costs Just 7,999 Euros!
3D printed frames are nothing new we’ve seen them work and we’ve seen them fail, and generally its the plastic…

Spotted: From Walmart To The Skate Park
What the? Wandering around Eurobike, there was no way this wasn’t going to catch your eye. I mean, look at…

3 Brands Taking On The Flat Pedal Market: Northwave, Ion and Vaude
Despite the rise in popularity of clip-in pedals, especially of the platform variety, we’ve got a new entrant into the…

The Kinetic Works Quintessenz Could Be The Last Frame You Ever Buy
What was the reason for getting rid of your last frame? Was it too short or too steep? Did it…

Brose: e-Bike Motors Get Smaller And Quieter
Brose, one of the lesser known brand names in the e-Bike motor market, has today launched its next generation of…

First Ride Impressions Of GT’s New Force and Sensor
Chipps reports back after a couple of days of riding on GT’s newly launched trail bikes. Over the course of…

Trickstuff Maxima Brakes Spotted At Eurobike
Back in issue 115 of Singletrack Magazine we tested the Trickstuff Direttissima, and we were simply blown away by the…

Hayes has a new brake called the Dominion A4, and it looks superb
It’s been a little over 20 years since Hayes entered the disc brake market with the original HFX-Mag. Though there…

Five Ten Goes Retrotastic
Looks like our Amanda might have been right with her predictions, as sticky shoe makers Five Ten has brought out…

More Kicks For Kids – 3 Kona Bikes For Your Offspring
We’d already seen the bikes for big kids at Sea Otter: a carbon Process 153, a Big Honzo 27.5+ hardtail,…

Take that SRAM & Shimano – Rotor goes 1×13 with HUGE 10-52t cassette!
Rotor Components has shown off a brand new 1×13 drivetrain, which includes an enormous 10-52t cassette! SRAM already has its…

Eurobike 2018 LIVE Archive: Watch all our broadcasts from the world’s largest bike show
Hannah, Amanda, Wil and Andi comprise this year’s Eurobike team out in Germany. They are writing, shooting, tweeting, ‘gramming all…