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Hot stuff: what we’re excited about this month
Hot stuff! This is what we’re excited about this month: big sprockets, pumps for speed, trucker caps, monster tyres, foot spas and more.
Dirty Deals: knee sleeves, cheap jacket, bikepacking bits and more!
This week's bargain biking bonanza involves a bit of bikepacking. What the heck is that you ask? Basically off-roiad touring with cmaping stuff.
Lockdown has seen a run on back-to-basics hardtails that do it all
Cotic’s new bike is called the BFeMAX, built from Reynolds 853 steel it’s what we call a hardcore hardtail, and can take up to a…
Giro Manifest new Spherical technology just made helmets safer
It’s fair to say that Giro’s new Manifest Spherical lid is unusual looking, with a two tone colour it almost looks as though its two…
Cwmcarn’s new blue trail opens up trail centre to every level of rider
It’s 2.3km of descent, taking in steep-sided berms and a couple of tunnels under existing trails and making Cwmcarn a more attrative prospect for new…
Mondraker Grommy e-balance bike will either amaze or appal you
We're not sure what to make of the Mondraker Grommy. On one hand, it's not really an e-bike. On the other hand, we wish we…
Why don’t flat pedal shoes have the best features of clipless shoes?
This month’s Star Letter asks, not unreasonably: "Where is the variety of technical stuff that companies offer in their ranges aimed at clipless pedals?"
Look at the backyard bike track Matt Jones built during lockdown
Look at the backyard bike track Matt Jones built during lockdown. Track can be navigated over 10 different ways and is made up of over…
Dirty Deals: knee pads, saddles, loadsa Schwalbe tyres and more!
Dirty Deals on a Friday again. Shall we do this every week? We've trawled (and trawled again) the best online bike shops to bring you…
10 trailside repair solutions from Lezyne
Punctures and mechanicals are a fact of mountain bike life. Thankfully theses days there are loads of cool and useful things you can get to…
BIkepark Wales reopens tomorrow… but read this before you go
On Thursday 9th July wheels will spin again on Bikepark Wales' s trails. But it won't be quite the same as before just yet. Read…
Where have all the bikes gone?
Online and in-store, everything from hardtails to e-bikes are out of stock. Where have all the bikes gone?
Niner’s first ebikes: the 150mm RIP e9 and the 180mm WFO e9
Niner Bikes announce their first e-MTBs. New e9 series of Bosch powered bikes feature 150mm travel RIP e9 and 180mm travel WFO e9.
This is Bosch’s idea of the bike of the future
Bosch's vision for the future involves more system integration, sleeker lines, carbon fibre, full-suspension and anti-lock brakes. Oh and it's an ebike, obviously.
Dirty Deals: £20 tyres, £15 gloves, half-price jerseys and much more!
After a bit of a break while the UK's bike shops basically ran out of stock of anything useful or decent, we're back with our…
Best places to ride in the World (when lockdown lifts)
We asked various globe-trotting mountain bikers to tell us where they are most looking forward to riding when freedom returns.
Topeak becomes a sponsor of BikePark Wales with trailside tool stations
Topeak announces BikePark Wales sponsorship. There will be Topeak-branded tool stations in three locations around the park.
How do you get young couch potatoes out into the great outdoors?
Mountain biking is guaranteed to get kids out and about. But which is the right bike? And how do kids learn to ride over rough…
New 120mm Transition Spur goes extremely downcountry
120mm front and rear. 29in wheels. Full carbon frame (front triangle, swing arm and rocker). Optional 100mm rear travel with 37.5mm stroke shock.