The Marin Alpine Trail E1 has a 160mm travel X-Fusion Trace 36 RC air-sprung fork up front and a RockShox…
Ben Haworth
185cm tall. 73kg weight. Orange Switch 6er. Saracen Ariel Eeber. Schwalbe Magic Mary. Maxxis DHR II. Coil fan.
Fresh Goods Friday 664 – World Champing At The Bit Edition
While we all wait for the World Championship racing to kick-off up in Fort William, let's take a few moments…
MTB DH World Champs: When & How To Watch
It's the Mountain Bike World Championships this weekend. Here's all you need to know about when it's on and how…
Watch trailer for ‘Shires’ – A Very British Bicycle Film
This looks like it'll be a good 'un. Shires is a bike film encompassing UK riders, locations, landscapes and the…
Fresh Goods Friday 663 – The Preparation H Edition
H in this instance being 'Holiday'. Preparing for holidays can take many forms. Some can be fun, some stressful, some…
The New RockShox SID Collection
We've yet to ride any of this new SID stuff so you'll have to make do, like us, with some…
NBD: Coal Scab, Torq Naked Gel, Norco Fluid Carbon…
... Limited Edition Ortlieb Bikepacking Luggage, Unior Tool Speed Pedal Wrench and an 'Inverse Type Bicycle Shock Presentation'!
Quick drool: Starling Cycles Mega Murmur
Our resident steel boinger fan Benji is currently having a bit of lie down after receiving details of the new…
Fresh Goods Friday 662 – Where The Eagles Dare Edition
After a series of tentative moves followed by capitalising on a fumble, Bon Jovi has made it through the wrestling…
NBD: RockShox Boxxer, Intense Tazer Alloy, Mason Bokeh 3.0…
... Trek Fuel EXe in Alloy, Privateer DJ101 and a perfectly Pink Process X from Kona. It's all of this…
Fresh Goods Friday 661 – The Hard Lining Edition
It's Red Bull Hardline weekend! And it's looking like it might be a terrifyingly wet one. Good luck to all…
NBD: Scott Endorphin, FSA x Cannondale Factory, Deviate Tilander…
... Hunt Proven Carbon Race XC UD wheels, Patrol full-sussers for kids, more ticket availability for Fort WiIliam World Champs…
Specialized Trail Wind Jacket review
The Specialized Trail Wind Jacket is one of those cliché 'goto' garments. For what I appreciate in a 3-season jacket,…
Fresh Goods Friday 660 – The Pump Me Pub You Edition
Hannah says: Living with an American is an endless source of lingual anomalies. My latest observations are around their curious…
NBD: Specialized P.Series in 20in, 24in, 26in or 27.5in
The Specialized P range hasn't been updated since approximately yonks* ago, the new dirtjumpin' pumptrackin' range comprises four models.
New UCI Mountain Bike World Cup show hosted by Rob Warner, Eliot Jackson and Emily Batty
Episodes will be released throughout the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Season. Watch Beyond the line only on Red Bull…
Fresh Goods Friday 659 – The Fiddle Edition
Hannah here, fresh from a podcast recording which has left me full of beans and bike enthusiasm. Assuming I haven’t…
NBD: Commençal Meta V5 SX, Deviate Claymore Artist Edition, Ibis HD6…
... Canyon flat pedals, Thok 3D-printed e-bike, HUnt XC Wide Wheelset. Here's a compendium of the more interesting things to…
Fresh Goods Friday 658 – It’s a Gas Gas Gas Edition
New Schwalbe tyres and a new Aphex Twin tune! Truly it feels like Xmas in Benji's domain this week.
NBD: Wyrm Racing Lab, Tacky Chan, Cotic E-Scapade Concept…
... CushCore E-MTB, Schwalbe Green Marathon and the new Commençal Meta 5 all feature in this week's news round-up.
How to deal with overgrown trails
'Tis the season of overgrowth. Here's how to protect yourself and how to keep your trails running sweetly with a…
Fresh Goods Friday 657 – The Hand Dryer Edition
Hannah says: I have a conundrum of the most modern and first world variety. I need to decide what to…
NBD: Orange Switch 6, SRAM Apex, Lapierre E-Zesty…
... Hope Dropper Lever, Cannondale Habit HT, Sixpack Headset Cable Routing System, Rocky Mountain Slayer, Saracen LSL Hardtails, Specialized Levo…
Daytrippin’ Kit Essentials
Benji brings you a kit list for a pilgrimage to the mountains, or just somewhere new and far away.
CamelBak M.U.L.E. Pro 14 Review
“Hydrate or die.” This is one of my favourite ever marketing slogans. CamelBak came out with it in the nineties,…
Specialized Gambit Helmet Review
This Specialized Gambit is going to be a controversial one. It is a product I very nearly didn’t include. Why?…
Troy Lee Designs Resist Trouser Review
I’m happy to say the Troy Lee Designs Resist Trouser completely confounded expectations and have proved to be an excellent.
Unparallel West Ridge Shoe Review
Although these Unparallel West Ridge are high-top shoes, I usually don’t lace them all the way up the very top.
Torque Covert 7 Crank Multi-Tool Review
This Torque Covert 7 multi-tool could be better. I’m happy to accept the cost-cutting aspect of it in exchange for…
Gusset Sleeper Push-on Grip Review
If you suffer from arm pump during rides, forget new bars/forks/wheels/bike, just spend ten quid on some Gusset Sleeper push-ons.
CushCore XC 29 Review
The best solution to keeping the dreaded deflations at bay is a tyre insert. And in my opinion, CushCore XC…
Scrub Alloy Trail Wheelset Review
These Scrub Alloy Trail wheels from one-man-band UK outfit Scrub are what I’d actually spend my own money on.
Marzocchi Bomber Z1 Coil Fork Review
Time for some more preaching. Coil is better. Always has been. Always will be. Yes, some gravity racers prefer air.…
Jackery Explorer 1000 Portable Power Station Review
The Jackery Explorer 1000 Portable Power Station is not for everyone, BUT for some folk this thing will be really,…
Lenzerheide DH World Cup: How Was It For You?
SPOILERS. The racing itself was as amazing and entertaining as ever, but how did the new format and the new…
Double Yer Money Hardtails: Bike Test
Hardtails are not just for winter, and mountain bikes don’t have to be expensive. Benji looks at what your money…
Voodoo Braag Review
The Voodoo Braag is an exercise in seeing how low you can go with price while still ticking sufficient ‘proper…
Merida Big Trail 400 Review
The Merida Big Trail 400 may not have some of the more boutique brands’ bits bolted to it, but it…
Trek Procaliber 9.6 Review
Sure, you can ride the Trek Procaliber 9.6 whenever and wherever you like but the raison d’être of this bike…
Column: Weight For It
Benji argues that weight does matter (but not much). The following column will hopefully unite the warring tribes in mountain…
Fresh Goods Friday 656 – Lenzerheide And Seek Edition
In many* ways, Fresh Goods Friday is like a Downhill World Cup.
WTF is happening at tomorrow’s MTB World Series DH?
Welcome to the brave new world of elite Downhill racing. New race formats, new schedules, new broadcasting rights and new…
New Mountain Bike Event Hits Dyfi Valley on 1st July
Dyfi Wild Ride is a new mountain biking event in the Dyfi Valleys on 1st July.
Big Vid: Amaury Pierron’s Rise and Fall and Rise Again
Two World Cup Downhill Championship titles with a space of four long years between them, connected by the resilience of…
Bike Check: Benji’s Stif Squatch
I got the Stif Squatch frame in to act as a testbed for the sort of stuff that wouldn’t quite…
Fresh Goods Friday 654 – Kylo Ren’s British Knights Edition
Benji is out on a hill with bikes. So is Amanda. Charlie is on holiday. This video was already in…
NBD: Deviate Highlander II, Pivot Mach 4 SL, Polygon Siskiu TE E-MTB…
… new Manitou Mattoc, Manitou J-Unit youth fork, very yellöw Öhlins Factory parts, Radical Bicycle Co. Chilli Dog updates and…
Fresh Goods Friday 653 – The Fast & Bulbous Edition
That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous. Bulbous also tapered? That's right. Certainly when it comes to carbon enduro…
Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5: First Looks ‘N’ Feels
This Cotic FlareMAX Gen 5 is the brand's 29er short-travel ripper. Besides looking very pretty in the bluebells, what is…
Fresh Goods Friday 652 – The Roadtrippin’ Edition
Some of us have been roadtrippin'. Some of us are still out there roadtrippin'. Some of us are merely plottin'…