Gortin Glen, in Northern Ireland, is set to become a Regional Trail Centre with 14km of trails and a trail hub. Last Tuesday night, Fermanagh and…
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Stan’s No Tubes releases new formula for 15th birthday
For years Stan Koziatek has been sending a secret, prototype fluid in unmarked bottles to his racers, now, to celebrate his company’s 15th brithday, you can…
Whyte 2016: highlights from the new range
Whyte has already had an impressive start to the year and has provided us with test winning bikes for both our Do-It-Trailbikes and Trail Hardtails grouptests. However…
Monday Quiz: can you guess the mountain bike from its silhouette?
Go down to your local trail centre and you’re guaranteed to see a polyphony of bikes from the most rudimentary hardtails through to full-suss bikes…
Watch Gee Atherton race the Cambrian rally
This weekend Gee Atherton proved himself to be a man of many many talents. Not only is he a multiple downhill World Champion but he’s…
Watch the birth of a mountain bike
We’re often blown away by the clever camera use in mountain bike videos (check out this one using Lego for example) but this one really is…
Specialized staff help to maintain Surrey Hills trails
Staff from Specialized’s UK headquarters have teamed up with the Surrey Hills Mountain Bike Working group to maintain trails on Leith Hill. The staff will…
How to change your integrated headset
The integrated headset allows the bearings to sit directly into the top tube of your bike. This means changing your headset is now a job a…
How to stop mud from sticking to your bike
Wax your bike and it’ll shed mud like poo off a politician’s back: The waxing hypothesis If you ride trails in the winter, your bike…
Is this the greatest trick ever landed on a mountain bike?
The Aussie roll, a double backflip 360, a double cork 1080, flip-90-180-flip-90 – nobody seems really too sure what to call this trick but whatever…
Watch this mountain biker herding cows down an Argentinian trail
Remy Metailler is known for his mountain biking whips, but maybe he could have used a whip of a different kind to herd these cows…
Mountain biker sues parents after crash leaves him paraplegic
A man who was left paraplegic after a crash in a Canadian mountain bike race has been forced to sue his parents in a quirk…
Cwmcarn’s Twrch trail re-opens
Great news for mountain bikers in south Wales as the Twrch trail at Cwmcarn will be re-opened this weekend. The trail was closed due to…
Tweets of the Week: Eddie Masters, Brendan Fairclough as a nipper and the world’s biggest step up
The past seven days have been dominated by the announcement of the new YT Mob downhill team. But that doesn’t mean we’re ignoring the rest…
Prototype Nicolai Geomotron downhill bike to be raced in 2016 World Cups
We’ve long admired Chris Porter and the folks over at Mojo for their willingness to push the boundaries of sizing and geometry with the Geomotron bikes…
SRAM NX: The new 1×11 groupset for £250
Key points Cheapest fully featured 1×11 drivetrain on the market Undercuts Shimano XT Uses a 11-42t cassette for greater compatibility Is this another 1×11 drivetrain?…
Joe Barnes gives a wet weather riding masterclass on Slop Mountain
If there’s one thing Joe Barnes knows, it’s how to ride in the mud – a skill he once again demonstrates perfectly in this video…
Mountain biker settles for $1M after dog attack during race
Renee Legro has settled for $1 million in a lawsuit of against the owner of two sheep dogs that attacked her during a mountain bike…
Two teenage boys have mountain bikes stolen in street by gang
Two teenage boys were grabbed and told to hand over their mountain bikes on a street in Edinburgh by a gang of three men. The…
Watch: downhill mountain biking features on Channel 4’s World Sport
Here’s something that slipped our attention but on January 27 downhill mountain biking was on terrestrial TV. It’s not very often we get to say…