James Smurthwaite

Contributor

Loic Bruni on podium

The current men’s downhill World Champion Loic Bruni will be riding on Specialized bikes in 2016 Bruni’s team mates, 2014 World Champion Loris Vergier and Whistler sensation Finn Iles, will also…

As mountain bikers we generally aren’t seen as the fittest of cyclists. Our skinny-wheeled cousins sneer at us for our post-ride pints and only riding 20 miles in a day, but here’s…

Another enduro series bites the dust as the the European Enduro Series has had to announce it is cancelling its 2016 calendar. The EES is traditionally seen as a feeder series…

Hope has released a new hub, the Pro 4, and here’s a video of it being transformed from a simple billet of aluminium through to the shining, clicking freehub that’s likely…

What have we got here then? Meet the Transition Carbon Patrol. It made it into our Most Exciting Bikes of 2015 and with good reason, it maintains everything that was…

At mbr we look forward to the World Cup coverage that Red Bull puts on every year, including the hilarious Claudio Caluori helmet cams, but let’s not forget that it also provides…

This year we’ve written about everything from Neo-Nazi’s to flashers and thieves. Heck, we’ve even written about even mountain bikes and what a fantastic year it’s been! We’ve made sure…

2015 was a great year to be British – One of our own went into space, we enjoyed sporting success throughout the year and Downton Abbey is finally finished for good.…

You can get choppered to the top of a trail in Europe, New Zealand or Australia but the Pacific Northwest is the only place you can use a floatplane. Here’s…