Sim sits down with two of the designers behind the latest version of Shimano's powerhouse groupset
Chipps
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
Sea Otter 2015: new Turner – but what’s hidden?
Chubby Sultan, production King Khan and Cyclosis CX bike, plus brand new Burner. No carbon RFX on the horizon, though.…
2016 Shimano XT Groupset – real world riding impressions
Sim's been to Garda to test ride the first production Shimano XT in Europe. Strangely, there was no sight of…
Sea Otter 2015: Manitou Magnum – the plus-size pioneer
Manitou launched the 'world's first plus-size fork' at the Sea Otter. 27+ or 29+ - it has it all. Now,…
A gritty, but cheery Dyfi Enduro
The 2015 Howies Dyfi Enduro was a little less dusty than before. Didn't seem to bother anyone though
UKGE Welcome to the season
Ride up, rip down. That's what the UK Gravity Enduro Series shows in this welcome video
Sea Otter 2015: Specialized Enters The Chubby Arena
We did predict that they’d all be at it at the Sea Otter, and you can find out more in…
MRP and e*thirteen agree to stop bickering
The two companies have similar patents granted, but have agreed to agree on things
Sea Otter: Old School and Retro Bikes at the Otter
A collection of some of the great old school stuff (and the people) on show in between all the shiny…
Sea Otter 2015: RST shows 27.5, teases inverted fork and carbon.
Dropper posts, carbon crowns and plus size, all from the hard-charging suspension company
Sea Otter 2015: One Industries goes casual. Prototype 661 pads.
Great looking new gear from One, and secret new 661 protos
Sea Otter 2015: Enve Composites
New DH bars, new trail bars, new stems, new carbon seatpost - and more
Sea Otter 2015: Lake Shoes
Revamp of the winter boot, new MTB shoes, urban commuters and a full-on enduro (AKA just riding around) mid-top boot
Sea Otter 2015: Fat Chance Cycles in the flesh
We caught up with Chris Chance and the very updated production version of the new Fat Chance Yo Eddy
Sea Otter 2015: Pacenti PDent bar/stem system
How short do you want to go? How about a 15mm low rise stem?
Sea Otter 2015: MRP rings and guides
The wave-tooth 1x ring finally exists, and quieter 1x guides for everyone
Sea Otter 2015: Fancy a riding snack? How about a pizza gel?
Clif Bar unveils new savoury ride foods that might help that odd mid-ride/race craving
Sea Otter 2015: Trek Unveils Completely New 29+ Stache Lineup
Launched in the UK a couple of years ago, the Trek Stache has been given a complete makeover and redesign.…
Take Ryan Leech’s 30-day Wheelie Challenge
The yoga-practising, trials-god, launches a course that promises you'll be able to wheelie in a month.
Long Termers: Chipps’ Orange Segment
Chipps reports on the first couple of months on the Orange Segment - the longer, slacker short-travel 29er.
R-Dog – The man who can’t ride in a straight line.
Check out this great video of whip-off champ, Ryan Howard - R-Dog on his home trails and see him muscle…
Fox 34 Fork Updated for 2016. New FLOAT DPS EVOL rear shock.
First look and first ride impressions of this brand new shock and fork. We've had a set for a while
SRAM’s New Guide Ultimate Brakes
New top-end Guide brakes, lighter rotors and four piston calipers from SRAM.
Singletrack Sinema 3
More carefully-curated celluloid. Videos that'll make you want to get out there and ride bikes
EWS Round One: Rotorua
Jerome and Anne Caroline back on top at the first round of the Enduro World Series in New Zealand
Akrigg’s custom trials bike stolen
...with his van around it. Chris seems rightfully more concerned about the bike though
Singletrack Sinema 2
More randomly timed, carefully curated videos that offer a bit of coffee break diversion
Tweedlove Announces Title Sponsors
Cannondale is to sponsor the EWS round and Alpine Bikes is sponsoring the EWS and the whole Tweedlove fortnight
North American Handbuilt Show: 3. More Custom Beauty.
It's the time of the chubbies, the half-fats and the normals to shine from NAHBS. Brad Quartuccio reports
St. Moritz Fat Biking – with the Afghan ski team
What do Olympic skiers do when there's too much snow? They go fat biking, of course
Maintenance-free bike? What would the Spanish know?
Spanish company, Axxis reckons it might have invented the maintenance-free bike. Oh, but brake pads?
North American Handbuilt Show: 2. The fat bikes cometh.
NAHBS was wall to wall custom fat bikes this year. This Retrotec was voted 'best mountain bike' by the judges.…
North American Hand Built Show 1: Fat Chance Returns
Studio shots of the new Fat Chance bikes (as well as classic old ones too) at the NAHBS show just…
Volunteer for Vallelujah (and TweedLove)
The Tweedlove folks are after some volunteers for Vallelujah and TweedLove (and the EWS). Come and help out and get…
Battle On The Beach releases more spaces
Due to finding some more MOD land to race on, the organisers are releasing a limited number of extra spots…
Santa Cruz Bronson C
Descent mapping, skill enhancing: here are our thoughts on the Santa Cruz enduro trail slaya
Intense Tracer 275 Alloy
Amid the flurry of carbon this and that launched this year, the Intense Tracer 275 Alloy almost snuck past unnoticed.…
The Bike Place Show – Pt1
Just some of the goodies on show from The Bike Place: GT, ESI, Kali, Charge
Fabric’s new mega-light ALM saddle. With added Airbus!
The most worthy successor to the iconic carbon Flite ever?
UPDATED: Fat Chance Cycles reaches its $116,000 Kickstarter goal.
The iconic man and brand are back, and pre-selling new bikes
CoreBike2015 Part2 – Hope Technology
Cranks, red stuff and the return of the ten speed integrated cassette from Hope
CoreBike2015 Part1
A quick look at what was on offer at the Core Bike Show today from Schwalbe, Ibis, WTB, MRP
Epic Cymru – First Batch of Entries Sold Out!
More entries available in early February for the August multi-stage race. And Weir is coming!
