These popular trail bikes have been upsized to 27.5in.
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.)
Rose Bikes 2014 Launch
The future's coming thick and fast. Here's the latest from the German company, Rose Bikes.
Giant 2014 – It’s gone more medium.
Put down the pitchforks! Some of these newfangled wheels come with quite nice Giant bicycles attached
Light and Motion 2014
Surely it's not that time of year already? More lumens for the pound from Light and Motion.
Josh Bryceland on Trans World Sport
Great video of everyone's favourite cheeky chappie, Josh 'Ratboy' Bryceland.
Lauf Trail Racer Fork. The lightest 29er suspension fork ever?
A mere 980g and an eye-catching design.
Mondraker Enduro – A Rider’s View
Buzz-lightyear reports back from this classic south western enduro.
Salsa’s New Spearfish and Horsethief 29ers.
Salsa's two flagship 29ers gain Split Pivot suspension and a whole lot of class.
SRAM XO1 Preview
It's out there. SRAM's much anticipated XO1 11speed groupset has been cropping up on test bikes this month
PressCamp 2013: Hutchinson Tyres
New 27.5in tyres. Slimmer DH tyres. Yes! How about new 26in tyres? Er, no
Santa Cruz Heckler 2014: 27.5in, single pivot and proud of it.
ANOTHER new bike from Santa Cruz. This one is a little more down to earth compared to recent launches
Ibis Releases New Mojo HD-R
It's a new version of the HD. Run it as a 160mm 26in, or as a 130mm 27.5in bike
The Orange Five is dead. Long live the Orange Five!
It's all gone a bit 27.5in... Both the Crush and the Five get the medium wheel makeover
Exposé: It’s not a holiday, it’s work, honest.
The truth about press launches, travel articles and work excursions; a tale of debauchery from a poacher soon to be…
Santa Cruz Solo
The new Santa Cruz Solo - 27.5in and 125mm travel. It's a 'get out there and ride' bike, apparently
Fresh Goods Friday 143
Hey, it's still Friday, what are you complaining about? Lots of shiny things inside
Brownbacks/Hope Series Kicks Off This Weekend
First of the Hope-sponsored series in Lee Quarry this weekend
POC King and Queen of the Hill 2013.
Feeling the (Tweed) Love. A report on the great gravity enduro that kicked off Tweedlove week
PHD Clothing launches its lightest down clothing ever.
The Manchester firm goes superlight on its new down clothing
New Welsh MTB B&B, Familiar Faces
Ex-Coed Y Brenin café couple open new 'mountain bikers only' B&B just up the road
Focus Mares CX 2.0 Di2 – Bike Review
Despite mountain bikes coming with disc brakes as a matter of course for a decade, at the elite level of…
Sea Otter 2013: Fox 2014
A new trail-ready rear shock, plus a completely revamped TALAS system for forks
Sea Otter 2013: Rocky Mountain Bikes
A new big and a new medium wheeled bike for your viewing pleasure
Sea Otter 2013: Niner Bikes
Finally, a company that showed absolutely zero 27.5in bikes at the Sea Otter.
Sea Otter 2013: Marin Bikes 2014
Nice new bikes from Marin. Unlike any you might have seen in the past
Sea Otter 2013: Randoms #2
GT DH bike, mirror ball helmets, 36ers, old school MTB heroes, aero tandems and more
Sea Otter 2013: Lake’s New MTB, Winter and Cyclocross Shoes
Possibly good for very aggressive bike commuters too
Sea Otter 2013: Yeti ARC and SB95 Carbon
Yeti's two new carbon machines; the ARC hardtail and SB-95c
Sea Otter 2013: Marzocchi’s new downhill fork and shock.
The new 380 fork offers 203mm travel for barely 6lbs in weight
Sea Otter 2013: Conti Joins The 27.5in Club
Four new tyres from the German rubber giants. Don't think that medium wheels are going away any time soon