Sunday 19th June is the date to put in your diaries for this year’s Wiggle South Downs Epic MTB event. The place to bung into your Satnavs is Fontwell Racecourse…
Benjamin Haworth
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New Highline dropper post from Crank Brothers
News has just landed of Crank Brothers’ latest dropper post – the Highline. 125mm of drop via Stealth-routed cable-actuation. This post marks Crank Brothers’ third (we make it) incarnation of…
Pace Cycles to operate Gisburn Forest cafe and bike shop
Pace Cycles already run similar setups in Dalby Forest and at Sutton Bank in Yorkshire. This announcement sees them cross the border into Lancashire to take on Gisburn Forest. The…
Kona’s new pair of carbon Hei Hei 29ers
The new Hei Hei bikes sees some of the attitude of the Process models put into a lightweight carbon 29er frame with a modest 100mm of travel at the rear. Kona…
SRAM EX1: the drivetrain specifically for e-MTBs
Designed from the ground up to offer a different gear range, bigger steps between gears and to better deal with the low-cadence high-torque pedalling typically done on e-MTBs. Only recently…
Six things we learned from EWS Ireland
Last weekend’s round of the Enduro World Series in County Wicklow saw some of the most exciting racing action yet in EWS’ history. It was a tale of local riders…
Callaghan and Moseley win again at Enduro World Series
The 2016 County Wicklow Enduro World Series was almost a re-run of the 2015 version with Irishman Greg Callaghan (Cube Action Team) taking the Men’s win and Tracy Moseley (Trek…
Highly detailed off-road route plotting in new Ordnance Survey app
GPS computers or GPS apps on your smartphone are all well and good when it comes to plotting and following road routes but for exploring off-road there’s nothing better than having…
A Tribute to Stevie Smith (VIDEO)
Canadian Stevie Smith, one of the genuine stars of World Cup Downhill racing, died earlier this week as a result of a brain injury sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was…
Mondraker e-Prime Stealth Carbon RR+ eMTB
Mondraker have revealed details and pics of their new e-Prime Stealth Carbon RR+ deluxe eMTB and it’s one of the first electric mountain bikes that could lay claim to being…
Size matters part 4: The accidental benefits of 29ers
Video: Pole Evolink 140 29 TR (2016) review By Chris Porter The off-road Bicycle industry is a funny old place. Riding styles change, components change, trails change and in response to…
Enduro World Series Round Three preview
After the dusty madness of Round Two in Argentina, the Enduro World Series heads to the greenery of County Wicklow in Ireland this weekend. The event goes by the name…
Seven amazing Stevie Smith runs (VIDEO)
Canadian downhill racer Stevie Smith tragically died yesterday in a motorcycle accident. Here we celebrate his exciting but all too brief contribution to mountain biking. If you want to know…
The MTB world reacts to Stevie Smith’s death
The mountain biking community is still absorbing the news of Stevie Smith’s untimely death. Smith died yesterday after a motorcycle accident in his hometown of Nanaimo in Canada. The former…
Stevie Smith dies in motorcycle accident
Canadian Stevie Smith, one of the genuine stars of World Cup Downhill racing, died yesterday as a result of a brain injury sustained in a motorcycle accident. He was 26…
How to fit Fox Float rear shock volume spacers
How to tune the performance of your Float shock by changing the spring curve using volume-reducing spacers. If your bike continually pops its o-ring off the shock, a volume spacer could…
Enduro World Series coverage set to get better due to eBikes
The Enduro World Series (EWS) and Cube Bikes have announced an interesting new addition to Enduro World Series event coverage – eMTBs for journalists and photographers. The first EWS event to…
Rad riding in the rainy real world (VIDEO)
Yoann Barelli and Josh Carlson are the featured riders in a new video from SRAM that’s intended to show the long hours and days of practice that goes on behind…
Stop work! New Danny MacAskill video has landed
After his recent huge hit films involving elaborate stage-sets or precipitous wild country craziness, Danny’s new film – Aviemore Spring – marks something of a return to his roots. This…
New Cannondale enduro bike on the way?
Cannondale pro and legendary enduro racer Jerome Clementz was over in the UK last weekend racing on what appeared to be a revised version of Cannondale’s Jekyll enduro bike. Event…