MBR January 2012 issue

What’s in the latest issue of MBR?

• Trailhead: 11 key moments in 2011
• First Ride: Norco Sight 2: sexy curves, sweet ride?
• Tested: new products
• Eye candy: all your Christmas needs sorted
• Soapbox: Alan Muldoon pontificates on new technology. Needed or not?
• Killer loop: Coed y Brenin revisited – Daffyd Davis shows us around
• Dusty rivers of loam: sublime singletrack in Oregon. Danny didn’t want to leave
• MBR’s 100% scientific winter bike challenge – don’t get stuck in the mud
• Travel light: Ride without a pack
• Best British trail centre: Eastridge
• Bike test: the hottest rides of 2012
• Grouptest: waterproof shorts
• Minitest: trail gloves
• Ride guide and pull out route maps
• Technique: 29er
• Shop smart: the best gear of 2011
• Q&A: body issues
• Body: Burwell’s year of living healthily
• Q&A: technical difficulties
• Workshop: Upgrade a Fox 32 fork
• PLUS – Four free route maps: rides in the Yorkshire Dales, Cotswolds, Mendips and North Wales

How sweet does that look?

The father of the trail centre goes back to its birthplace

Stay lean, and clean, with our winter set-up tips

Trek gives new meaning to the phrase 'going for a slash'