Le Eco is an Indian smart phone company that you may not have heard of as it currently only operates in China. However, it has produced a ‘smart’ mountain bike…
James Smurthwaite
Contributor
Tweets of the week: A mountain bike football dream team and more
We’re into the last week of February now and that can only mean one thing… summer is coming (the sun’s even out in Croydon today!) As usual all our favourite…
Full Highlights and all the best pictures from the Valparaiso urban downhill race
The Red Bull Valparaiso urban downhill race kicked off the City Downhill World Tour in style last weekend and German veteran 4x racer Johannes Fischbach emerged as the victor. >>> Claudio…
Watch the new Ibis Mojo 3 in action
Remember the first time you saw an Ibis Mojo HD? With it’s frame shaped like a crashing wave and sleeker than a galloping horse’s mane? Well now there’s a new one.…
Saracen’s first ebike, new helmets from Madison and all the best of Ice Bike 2016
You may think that Ice Bike is a funny name for a trade show in the Milton Keynes football stadium in February, but it’s now in its tenth year so it…
SRAM Level: Guide brake slimmed down for trail/XC use
Sram is pretty proud of its Guide downhill brake, after all, it did deliver Loic Bruni to his first World Championship at the end of last season. The only problem…
Canyon founder and CEO ‘heartbroken’ over delays
Canyon’s CEO and founder, Roman Arnold, has penned an open letter apologising to his customers for the delays that have left thousands waiting months longer than promised for new bikes. The delays…
Wyn Masters reveals how he relieves himself at an EWS race
Sam Dale likes sugar snap peas, Wyn Masters wants to be a bird and Rachel Throop takes up to 30 selfies per week. For all these facts and more about…
Watch Mick Hannah’s crazy crash at the Valparaiso urban downhill race
With steep stairs, crazy crowds and drops that almost certainly haven’t been risk assessed, we’ve always watched urban downhill races and wondered: “What happens if it all goes wrong?” Well,…
5 foods that aren’t as good for your riding as you think
Challenge some common misconceptions and rethink the way you eat: Trail mix It’s amazing how many people happily snack away on a bag of trail mix thinking it’s a healthy…
Monday Quiz: Can you name these mountain bike brands from their logos?
Do you know the Specialized swish from the Orange… orange? We all have certain favourite mountain bike brands whose equipment we love to ride day-in-day-out for either its performance or its…
Specialized announces aluminium Demo 8 downhill bike
For years brands have produced an aluminium bike frame and then tried to reproduce it in carbon, but with the Demo, Specialized went the other way. To deliver race winning…
Dirt Factory releases more equity due to overfunding
We always had a sneaking suspicion that the Dirt Factory indoor mountain bike park would be a success but we never realised it would be this big. The team was…
Is this the world’s best commute?
For most of us, the journey to work is little more than a bleary-eyed trance. A simple way to get from A-to-B before spending eight hours staring at a screen…
Watch Aaron Gwin win his first race for YT Industries
Aaron Gwin won his first race for YT Industries yesterday at Fontana. It was the first public appearance for Gwin as part of the YT Mob and he took the…
Porn website sponsors Italian mountain bike team
Don’t ask us how we found this out, but… A porn website has sponsored a mountain bike team for 2016. xHamster.com announced in a blog today that it will be supporting…
Obstacles placed across trails at the Forest of Dean
The official Twitter account for Forest of Dean mountain biking has posted images of obstacles that have been placed on mountain biking trails in the forest. The tweet said: “Why…
This is how hard you have to train to become a World Champion
It’s no secret that Nino Schurter is one very fit cyclist. After all, you don’t become World Cup Champion and World Champion in the same year without putting out peak…
Transition launches a new bike… with 26 inch wheels
We’re not sure how many times we’ll be able to say this again in future but … there’s a new bike with 26 inch wheels. >>> Click here for the…
This is what happens when you mix mountain bikers and ninjas
If you think of ninjas you’re likely to picture them stealthily creeping through the shadows of feudal Japan, not hunting mountain bikers in the forests of north eastern France. As far…