The Marin Mount Vision has been in the range, well, about as long as Marin has been around (and that’s…
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.)
Formula Teases Selva Coil Fork And Confirms New UK Distributor
Everyone loves a ‘Proto’ sticker, don’t they? And seeing the rows of bikes at the Formula truck at Bike Connection…
Hope Launches Redesigned Evo Cranks And New Fortus Wheels
We’re at the Bike Connection 2019 gathering in Italy with a load of top brands who all have something special…
A Beautiful Mason, Several Gurns, A New Frame – And The World’s Smallest Samurai Sword… It’s Fresh Goods Friday 436!
No sooner had Chipps returned from his most recent endless holiday, but it seemed that everyone else took that as…
Stabbing Your Tyre Is Good For It – And Other Fun Things We Learned At The iceBike Show
Madison’s house show, iceBike* is the traditional early-season chance to see what products are appearing this spring and for Madison…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 123 : Editorial
Greasing Out Words Chipps Daz was our ride leader for the evening, so he got to deliver the pep talk…
Singletrack Magazine issue 123 : 25 Years Of Chipps
January 2019 marked 25 years of Chipps being a full-time bike journalist. Here, he pulls up some of the highlights…
Editors’ Choice: Chipps’ Cream Of The Crop Gear Of The Year
What a year! After enduring about four winters, we finally had the summer that everyone had been dreaming about for…
Renthal Goes Stealth With Black On Black Fatbars
The Renthal Fatbar (and Fatbar 35) is an iconic bit of kit, used by downhillers, trail riders and enduro elites…
Marzocchi Returns To Rear Shocks. Affordable Shocks From This Legendary Company.
Marzocchi is back in the rear coil shock game, with the newly announced Bomber CR shock. In keeping with the…
Guy Martin Wants To Degrease You
Proper Degreaser, or to give it its full name, “Proper Degreaser from Proper Cleaner by Guy Martin” is released today…
FGF 427: Is It Too Early To Start Christmas Shopping?
Welcome to the final Fresh Goods Friday before Christmas. While it’s probably a little late for gift ideas, there’s nothing…
You Love His Photos, Now Help Colin’s Life.
Chipps, Singletrack’s Editor writes: Usually when a regular contributing photographer emails to say ‘Here is a selection of great photos…
Unsprung Heroes – 3 Fully Rigid Bikes Tested & Reviewed
Chipps rides three fully rigid bikes from Kona, Pinnacle and Surly. Words Chipps Photography James Vincent I always like to wear…
Review: Surly you can’t have fun without suspension? We test the fully rigid ECR
 Surly has always been individual and self-confident in its outlook. From pioneering the first production singlespeed (the 1×1, which…
Review: After a playful bargain? The Pinnacle Ramin 3 Plus might be the bike for you
Pinnacle is the house-brand of retail giant, Evans Cycles, but the range is way more than a selection of rebadged…
Renthal Offers You Zero. Zero Rise Fat Bar Lite and Fat Bar Lite Carbon Now In Flats!
Amazingly not available until now, Renthal’s Fatbar Lite and Fatbar Lite Carbon now come in zero-rise options. It seems that…
Review: Kona’s Unit X is like a singlespeed, but with 10 more gears?
The Kona Unit has a long history, from a Canadian company with an equally deep heritage. While Kona celebrates its…
Hans Rey Burgled. Then Burgled Again. Thieves Take The Lot.
We bring you some rather unfortunate news today, as we report on a whole swag of bikes that have been…
The Great Singletrack Christmas Giveaway – What’s Coming This Week?
We’ve already given away two prizes this week, but never fear, we have plenty more great prizes to be won.…
Tweedlove Transcend Epic Promises To Change Scottish Enduro Forever!
For years the Tweedlove Festival has done much to promote the Peebles and Innerleithen areas and to make things like…
Fresh Goods Friday 423 – The Dark At Four Edition
Welcome to the ‘Dark at 4pm, deadline week, Chipps is back and we’re ignoring him’ winter Fresh Goods Friday special!…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 121: Simon Gallup – There Is No Cure
Simon Gallup: There is no cure. He plays in a world-famous band and has toured the globe for the last…
Singletrack Magazine Issue 121 : Editorial
Longer shortcuts. Words Chipps Out in the car, running errands on a Saturday lunchtime… the Council tip, the shops, the…
Interview: Tom Ritchey – The man behind the ‘tache.
This article was originally published in Issue 110 of Singletrack Magazine. We chat to (and ride with) this iconic framebuilder,…
Review: Curtis AM7 – Not just a pretty face, pretty fast too.
There’s no actual reason to buy a Curtis, other than the fact that you want one. And that’s a perfectly…
Singletrack Issue 121: XXC: Cross Country Extra
Three bikes that take the short travel full suspension bike to another world.
Cannondale Habit. First Impressions Of A Very Important Bike
Cannondale Habit, first impressions. While I’m not, for a minute, going to think that I can get away with complaining…
Cannondale’s New Habit 29er. The Trail Bike For You?
Cannondale has completely reinvented its 29in wheel Habit trail bike – from the ‘not quite a race bike, not quite…
The Cotic Soda – Flagship Titanium Hardtail – Returns! Longshot, but Limited
New Cotic Soda They’re like buses, eh? New bikes… You turn your back for a minute and a load have…
Focus Launches The New Sam. Introducing, the Focus Sam.
2019 Focus SAM Today, Focus launches its new 170mm enduro bike. It’s called the SAM (just like the old one)…
Fox Live Valve – Is It Better Than Turning The Knobs Yourself? Maybe Not.
We had a week to ride a Live Valve equipped bike on our own trails. What did we think? Chipps…
Fox Live Valve Launches, but what is it?
After years of behind the scenes work and glimpsed prototypes, the Fox Live Valve system is finally ready to be…
The Most Shocking Bit About Yeti’s New SB150 29er Enduro Bike – Is The Colour!
If you're looking for something big and fast, could this be what you're looking for? We check out the latest…
Hope Pre Peaks – 70km of cake-fuelled cheeriness through the Dales
It wasn’t a surprise to the weather pessimists among us that the one day you need clear, calm weather to…
Don’t call it a heatwave, just call it summer: From Singletrack issue 120
Chipps has vowed to only ride if it’s sunny. Unfortunately, this means he’s not stopped since early May. From Singletrack…
When did it all get so good? Chipps’ Issue 120 Editorial
I took a trip back in time recently, revisiting a place I used to ride when I was just starting…
UK Gravity Enduro Announces Cancellation. BEMBA Steps Up With 2019 National Series.
Coming so soon off the euphoria of the successful running of the ‘Ard Rock Enduro last weekend, the UK enduro…
GT Fury Downhill Bike Returns!
Today, GT Bicycles has announced a new GT Fury downhill bike. Taking design and suspension cues from the complete revamp…
A hundred grand for a bike rack? That’s what Tailfin has raised in a week
A Bristol-based company has just launched an innovative rear luggage rack on Kickstarter and has seen it raise nearly a…
So that’s where all of the country’s carbon enduro bikes (and T5 campers) went this weekend? The Ard Rock Enduro!
The ‘Ard Rock Enduro once again showed that it has become the event of the year for trail riders to…
Fresh Goods Friday 406
da-dum, da-dum, Da Dum, DA DUM, DA DUM! DAAA DUMMM! That’s the sound of the weekend approaching. Hurtling down the…
Pump Tracks For Good
A Scottish pump track, opened late last year is already having some great benefits for the local community, reckons its…
We Asked Rachel, Gee And Dan Atherton 21 Questions They Weren’t Expecting
A few weeks ago, we had a young lad, Aran Francis in on work experience. Along with the regular work…
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…
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…
The New Bronson Is So Good It Might Kill Its Sibling, the 5010
After a too-short afternoon on both bikes, Chipps gives us his Santa Cruz 2019 5010 and Bronson first impressions… A…
GT Bikes’ brand new Force and Sensor, and the return of LTS – but not as you know it!
Chipps reports from Norway as GT launches some new suspension bikes that it is very proud of. The new GT…
The Santa Cruz Bronson Is Dead. Long Live The Bronson! (And the Roubion)
Along with Shimano’s new XTR groupset, the new Santa Cruz Bronson’s release this year was always going to be a…
Santa Cruz 5010 – All New For 2019
While the Bronson is dramatically different, the 130mm travel 5010, and its Juliana stablemate, the Furtado, don’t look that different…