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Trash Free Trails Report Highlights Impact On Wildlife

Trash Free Trails Report Highlights Impact On Wildlife

Often the impact of litter – or rubbish, or pollution – on our trails and in…

Don’t Look Now: Another Ridgeline Film From Gee Atherton

Don’t Look Now: Another Ridgeline Film From Gee Atherton

While he wasn’t in Utah at Red Bull Rampage this year – giving our nerves a…

Get Your Free Calendar With December’s Singletrack Magazine!

Get Your Free Calendar With December’s Singletrack Magazine!

Golly gosh, it’s that time of year already. The December issue of Singletrack Magazine will be…

Dean Trail Volunteers Honoured with The King’s Award for Voluntary Service 

Dean Trail Volunteers Honoured with The King’s Award for Voluntary Service 

You already knew they were great because you’ve previously given them the Best Trail Team Award,…

Cotic Rocket first ride review

Cotic Rocket first ride review

The Cotic Rocket looks like nothing else. Don’t like it? Do like it? Either is fine.…

Singletrack World Awards 2024 now open for nominations

Singletrack World Awards 2024 now open for nominations

This year’s Singletrack World Awards are now open for your nominations! Your voice remains just as…

Free carbon wheels worth £1149 with Privateer complete bikes

Free carbon wheels worth £1149 with Privateer complete bikes

For the ‘Black Friday’ season (now until early December basically), Privateer x Hunt Wheels offering a…

ABUS HiDrop Helmet Review

ABUS HiDrop Helmet Review

Although fairly budget friendly, the ABUS HiDrop helmet is not just an entry level lid designed…

Readers’ Rides: Will’s Fat Chance Yo Eddy

Readers’ Rides: Will’s Fat Chance Yo Eddy

For this edition of Readers’ Rides, Will shares his 2020 Fat Chance Yo Eddy complete with…

Give the gift of Singletrack this year with added extras

Give the gift of Singletrack this year with added extras

In the words of Brad Pitt in the classic family film, Seven, 'What's in the box?'

Fresh Goods Friday 730: The Fingers In Ears Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 730: The Fingers In Ears Edition

Nope. Not going to talk about it. Don’t know what you’re on about anyway. Everything is…

UK Trails Project Publishes First Report Into UK Trails Network

UK Trails Project Publishes First Report Into UK Trails Network

Hopefully you remember when it was announced that SRAM was funding a UK Trails Project. And…

New Scottish Enduro Association Launched: Could you be part of It?

New Scottish Enduro Association Launched: Could you be part of It?

The future of enduro in the UK is looking uncertain, with major event organisers Tweedlove and…

Funding Cuts To Welsh Trails Confirmed

Funding Cuts To Welsh Trails Confirmed

We’ve been reporting for a while that there were extensive budget cuts threatened at Natural Resources…

Amflow PL Carbon Pro: first ride review

Amflow PL Carbon Pro: first ride review

“After more riding, I was pretty convinced that this is the best ebike motor out there,…

Greg Minnaar: Retirement 20 Questions with the GOAT

Greg Minnaar: Retirement 20 Questions with the GOAT

In this episode George, Jack and Emi chat MSA, 2025 & Team Rumours before they’re joined…

Readers’ Rides: Back On A Bike With This Bird Aether 9

Readers’ Rides: Back On A Bike With This Bird Aether 9

For this edition of Readers’ Rides, a forumite shares his Bird Aether 9: “the STW forum…

Red Bull Rampage: What’s The Motivation?

Red Bull Rampage: What’s The Motivation?

“Seriously, people do that for fun? They’re not being punished for some heinous crime?”This was my…

502 Club Raffle Winners: Did you win a Yamaha Wabash eBike?

502 Club Raffle Winners: Did you win a Yamaha Wabash eBike?

If you bought a ticket we are pretty sure this will be the most exciting video…

Fresh Goods Friday 729: The DJI E-dition

Fresh Goods Friday 729: The DJI E-dition

It doesn’t happen very often in the modern era, but this year there has been a…

New 2025 range of Singletrack merch out now

New 2025 range of Singletrack merch out now

We’ve been busy tracking down the best quality clothing we could find to add our logo…

Thin Pickings For Cycling In UK Autumn Budget Announcement

Thin Pickings For Cycling In UK Autumn Budget Announcement

I had high hopes for yesterday’s Budget announcement. Today, I’m feeling deflated and defeated – was…

Manitou have made the FS again. No really.

Manitou have made the FS again. No really.

A statement piece – a concept bike, if you will – that is equal parts nostalgia…

eBike Battery Tech: Unpicking the myths from the reality

eBike Battery Tech: Unpicking the myths from the reality

There are a lot of myths and misinformation and general lack of understanding about what it…

Each Peach Pear Plum: Using e-cargo bikes to survive picnics with kids

Each Peach Pear Plum: Using e-cargo bikes to survive picnics with kids

Hannah enlists her friend Celia on a mission to re-enact a favourite book from her childhood.…

The Trail Pot Launches: A National Mountain Biking Development Fund

The Trail Pot Launches: A National Mountain Biking Development Fund

Readers of the magazine may recall that last year I interviewed Chris Maloney, known to many…

Fresh Goods Friday 728: The Fairy Tale Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 728: The Fairy Tale Edition

Once Upon A Time in a land far far away… well not that far away, actually…

Thinking of getting an E-Cargo Bike? Read this

Thinking of getting an E-Cargo Bike? Read this

If you’re really interested in moving away from driving a car for as many journeys as…

How to Thrive, not just Survive, this winter

How to Thrive, not just Survive, this winter

Benji adopts the slithery path to zen in the darker months Acceptance. Acceptance and change. That,…

Issue 157: MTB Culture – Rain Stops Play

Issue 157: MTB Culture – Rain Stops Play

Chipps looks at the increasing influence the changing climate and other pressures are having on off-road…

Georgia Astle: Finding Fun In The Process At Red Bull Rampage

Georgia Astle: Finding Fun In The Process At Red Bull Rampage

Born and raised in Whistler, Georgia Astle didn’t actually like mountain biking as a kid, preferring…

Transition Sentinel 2025: First Ride Review+

Transition Sentinel 2025: First Ride Review+

Transition Sentinel: 29er seeks adventurous riders for mutual outdoor fun. Sleek, sexy and BMX-y. 160mm up…

The Bossnut is back! Calibre’s bargain bouncer goes 29

The Bossnut is back! Calibre’s bargain bouncer goes 29

After a total of five incarnations as a 27.5in bike, the new Calibre Bossnut rolls out…

Issue 157: Busman’s Holiday

Issue 157: Busman’s Holiday

Tracy Moseley’s idea of a holiday does not involve a sun lounger, but it is all-inclusive…

A Spectator’s Guide To Red Bull Rampage

A Spectator’s Guide To Red Bull Rampage

Maybe you’re interested in heading out to watch Red Bull Rampage first hand. After my experience…

Fresh Goods Friday 727: The East 17 Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 727: The East 17 Edition

Alright, alright, everything’s going to be alright. That’s what the chaps from Walthamstow say anyway. And…

UCI Confirms 2025 MTB World Series Changes

UCI Confirms 2025 MTB World Series Changes

The UCI and Mountain Bike World Series organisers have issued a press release confirming what we…

Triple-clamping an enduro bike: Privateer 161 edit

Triple-clamping an enduro bike: Privateer 161 edit

Nice vid documenting the fork options of the Privateer 161 with Ferg Ryan. Some inspiring scenery…

Cool Head And A Spicy Line: Tom Isted’s Red Bull Rampage Debut

Cool Head And A Spicy Line: Tom Isted’s Red Bull Rampage Debut

Tom Isted has me nervous. Despite his reassurance that he’s going to keep things chilled and…

The Grinder 157: Granite Quiver, Madison DTE jacket, Feedback Sports Pro HD Repair Stand and more

The Grinder 157: Granite Quiver, Madison DTE jacket, Feedback Sports Pro HD Repair Stand and more

Tried and tested by the Singletrack Crew, gear to help you survive a day in the…

Issue 157 – Better With Friends

Issue 157 – Better With Friends

Is mountain biking something best done as a group, or is there a certain singularity of…

Scott Ransom: The Super Trail Bike

Scott Ransom: The Super Trail Bike

There’s a lot going on with the new Scott Ransom. But in a nutshell it is…

Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Red Bull Rampage 2024: Finals Day and Men’s Results

Watching Red Bull Rampage is less of an adrenaline event and more of an endurance one.…

Rampage Diary 4: Location Location Location

Rampage Diary 4: Location Location Location

Red Bull Rampage owes everything to its location. If it were anywhere else in the world…

Win This Yamaha Wabash RT Bike and expand your riding options: 502 Club Raffle

Win This Yamaha Wabash RT Bike and expand your riding options: 502 Club Raffle

Our 502 Club raffles help to support Singletrackworld and it’s sustainability in times that are unprecedented…

Cat Eye Lighting Bundle: Did you win it?

Cat Eye Lighting Bundle: Did you win it?

It’s draw time again for our latest 502 Club Raffle. The prize this week is a…

Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

Fresh Goods Friday 726: The Chain Damping Edition

No, it’s not called dampening. You can dampen something. You can damp something. But dampening is…

Issue 157 – Norway Hans Rey

Issue 157 – Norway Hans Rey

What would you say are the greatest innovations in mountain biking? Most would agree the invention…

First Ever Women’s Red Bull Rampage: The Results

First Ever Women’s Red Bull Rampage: The Results

Shovels down. It’s competition day. The dig teams are heading towards holiday mode, all the heavy…

Red Bull Rampage Diary 3: Go Big, But Come Home

Red Bull Rampage Diary 3: Go Big, But Come Home

Today was the last day of practice for the women, tomorrow is showtime. But when you…

Issue 157 Last Word – Catastrophe!157

Issue 157 Last Word – Catastrophe!157

After a dozen years of incident-free mountain biking, luck ran out for my wife in October…