OK, so we do bang on about it a bit, here at Singletrack: the fact that you need to keep…
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.)
Go Where – Your guide to Scottish trails
Andy McKenna, all round nice guy from Innerleithen, is branching out into driving mountain bikers around to the choicest trails.
‘Renegade’ Signs Brighten Up the Lakes
Cumbria Tourist board commissions some 'unofficial' (but official) fun outdoor signs in its bid to become the UK's adventure capital...
SAFETY RECALL – Sunline V1 Carbon Handlebars (31.8mm version)
Sorry to say, if you're running Sunline CARBON V1 bars, then you're going to have to swap 'em for a…
A Friday Vid for you
A good parcours video to help you while away the afternoon.
Relentless 24
The closing 24 hour of the season had great crowds and some fine weather.
Vandals Damage Trails at Coed Y Brenin
Vandals have ripped rocks up from the trail and pulled down signs at Coed Y Brenin's trails.
And now it’s my turn…
Issue 53 has gone to the printers and Chipps and team are happy.
Fresh Goods Friday
It's time to have a look to see what's turned up this week. The answer is 'lots...'
Singletrack Scoops Top Honours In Industry Awards!
Singletrack Magazine voted 'Best Consumer Magazine' by the bike trade. Woohoo!
Relentless 24 Happens This Weekend!
Places are still available for the last 24 hour race of the season up at Fort William.
Ibis Gets New UK Distributor
Ibis Cycles now have a new UK distributor as of about now. Here’s their rather amusing press release on the…
Dorel Industries buys UK distributor Hot Wheels. And Charge Bikes.
The company that owns Cannondale, GT, Sugoi and Mongoose has now bought UK distributor Hot Wheels.
Cotic to have actual new product at the Cycle Show
We’ve just had word over the Bat Laptop that Cotic will be making it worthwhile you coming to the Cycle…
Interbike Eight: Ellsworth to Colnago
Ellsworth, Pearl Izumi, Pedro's, Knog, Genuine Innovations, Twin Six, Vicious, Salsa, Bianchi, Chrome, Camelbak and, er, M&Ms
Interbike Seven: The show goes on…
We're back from Interbike, so the flow of stories can continue...
Show’s over = Autumn
Chipps is back from Vegas and looking forward to some murky weather.
Interbike Four: See? We’d just forgotten to post it.
We hope you didn't think that that was the end of it. There's plenty more still...
Interbike Six: Tyres, Turners and POC
Another ‘fill in your own captions for now’ piece while we take in the last day of the show. More…
Interbike Five: More from the floor
Another 40 or so pictures from today's Interbike show in Las Vegas.
Interbike Part Three: More from the desert
Brand new Titus bikes in Ti and carbon, Smith, 3speed fixies, Felt and more
Interbike: Camelbak
Geeky about water? So is Camelbak with a digi flow meter and a water purifying system - that uses UV…
Interbike Report Two – More Dirt Demo stuff
Come and roast with us in the desert and check out new stuff plus Peaty's World Championship bike.
Interbike Report One: Let’s take a look round.
Race Face, King, Giro, WTB and more.
SSWC 2009 – the tattoos and the basketball decider
The venue for SSWC 2010 was decided by a basketball match
SSWC 2009 Durango – Results and everything!
Well, the race is over, the results are in.
Kona Cheddar Bikefest
Michael Wilkens reports from the Kona Cheddar Bikefest held at the Broadway House Caravan Park on the 12-13th September.
Eurobike 2009
Another collection of shots from the huge Eurobike show. This time: Intense, Breezer, Kali, Morewood, Industry Nine, Lynskey, Lupine, Tange,…
Gurt Big Hills
Chipps muses about those really, really big mountains you find on the Continent.
Eurobike Twelfty – There’s more…
More from the Eurobike memory cards. Here's Tomac, Cannondale, Formula, Ritchey, Shimano, Magura, Pronghorn, Middleburn and more.
Ae All Abilities Day
The 7Stanes venue of Ae is hosting a day for ALL ability riders to come along and try riding in…
Eurobike: We’ve still got loads of stories left
More from Eurobike. This time from Lapierre, Canfield, a Ritchey tandem, a 30 speed Specialized MTB, Troy Lee and a…
Eurobike: New Pace forks, new Ibis, DT wheels, Exposure lights, Camelbak, Charge Bikes, Lezyne…
Loads more supersize pictures from Eurobike. Here's a look at the new Pace forks, DT wheels, Lezyne tools and bags,…
Eurobike: Bell, Giro and Kona
Another photo love story from Eurobike. This time we have some huge shots from Kona, Specialized, Five Ten, Giro, Bell,…
Eurobike Day One Part Two
Eurobike 2009, and Matt and Chipps are over there looking for the new stuff. Here's the first of their photo…
Trek Remedy Goes Carbon
The Trek Remedy all-mountain bike is now 150/150mm and gains two OCLV carbon models and two aluminium ones, plus magnesium…
Trek 2010
Trek's 2010 bikes - new carbon stays on the Fuel EX line, plus a brand new Fox shock, new shock…
Hub Guide To The British Champs
The Hub in the Forest have made a guidebook for this weekend's British Champs
Partnership agreement ensures Aston Hill’s future
CTC – the UK’s national cyclists’ organisation, Aston Hill Mountain Bike Club and Forestry Commission have joined forces to create…
Robbing Peter, Paying Paul
We all know that getting the work/life balance right is important, but I seem to be having problems with my…
Valiant T-Shirts are here…
They have some clever, mountain bike related T-shirts and, what? Yep, they have their own 1940s radio detective show...
Danny MacAskill stars in new Doves video
Danny MacAskill manages to show off his amazing street trials skills again - this time in a new video for…
Singletrack Classic Weekender – the photos
Our man Sim spent all weekend burning in the Lancashire sunshine to bring us a photo story of a great…
Specialized 2010 – The Media Pack
We missed this year's Specialized press launch, so here are some selected pages from the Media Guide that came with…
Montane Kielder 100 – One lap, one rider, one adventure, 100 Hundred Miles
And while we're on the subject of Kielder. Remember that you were complaining that there weren't any 'proper' 100 mile…
New Exposure lights spotted at Mayhem
The chaps and chapesses at USE and Exposure Lights have been busy down in Petworth and they used the Original…
Press Camp 2009. The first installment…
Press Camp 2009 is a multi-manufacturer press launch event in Sun Valley, Idaho. We've sent our own worldwide glamourpuss Chipps…
Britain to host two mountain bike World Cup rounds in 2010
We've just heard that Dalby Forest has won the bid to host the April, opening round of the 2010 Mountain…
Missy Giove in huge drugs bust…
...and not the performance-enhancing kind either...
2010 Shimano Deore
Loads of pictures of our 'Media Priority' samples that have just pitched up to the office... That means that new…