Road racing star Peter Sagan is having a crack at the Olympic cross country mountain biking this Sunday. Here's a few words from the man…
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The Giro Switchblade convertible helmet is back
The return of the full-face to open-face covertible helmet. The old 1998 Giro Switchblade was a XC helmet with a bolt-on chinguard. The new 2017…
Another kool kids bike – the Rocky Mountain Reaper
The new Rocky Mountain Reaper takes 26" or 24" wheels and has 130mm rear travel with a 120mm fork up front. A proper full suspension…
The surprise new Intense Recluse
Progressive geometry 140mm travel carbon 27.5 bike. Is it a more aggro Spider 27.5? Or a replacement in-all-but-name of the Tracer? Wherever it fits in…
Olympic mountain bike course threatened by forest fire
Reports and photos show fire near the Deodoro centre where the mountain biking will take place at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The all new Focus VICE
Affordable 120mm travel single pivoting machine with impressively modern looking geometry. “Keep it simple and have fun” they say. >>> The best cheap mountain bikes Need…
Olympic mountain bike course video
Even hot favourite Nino Schurter will struggle to beat this lap time. Join course designer Nick Floros as he zips round a lap of the…
Dirty deals: Reverbs, Five Tens, multi tools and much more
It’s Monday again. Boo! Which means it’s time for another edition of Dirty Deals. Yay! We’ve assembled something of a bumper crop of great deals…
2017 Specialized Enduro gets major overhaul
More travel, more wheel size options and more Öhlins
Five great routes for watching this weekend’s Perseid meteor shower
This weekend combine a night ride with some awe-inspiring meteor spotting. Here’s five great places to watch the Perseid showers. >>> Top tips on how to…
Photo gallery alongside a mountain bike trail
Cool new art installation along a bike trail in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 10: most popular bike reviews
We reveal the most popular bike reviews this week - are these the UK's favourite bikes?
Instagram nutjob clifftop biking in Ireland
Another day, another vertigo-inducing ridge riding video lands in our inbox. Instagram user garrydavo is someone you might like to follow. But only on Instagram.…
Bikes jumping in loads of flowers video is way better than it sounds
MTBer Martin Söderström and dirt BMXer Dawid Godziek feature in this extremely yellow and extremely cool riding video. Dirt jumping vids are usually very dusty,…
The oldest, shortest, heaviest, unluckiest, tiredest, worstest racers in the 2016 Olympic mountain biking
There’s an excellent array of humans taking part in the the Olympic cross-country event in Rio this summer. Despite their extreme classifications they could all…
What’s the Olympic mountain bike course like?
A lap of the course is 5.4km. Competitors will do a number of laps. The exact number of laps is still TBC but races will…
Olympic mountain biking start lists
Full list of entrants for the men’s and women’s cross-country mountain bike events at Rio Olympics 2016. Check out if your favourite racer is taking…
Watch OneUp’s new bash guard destroy a coconut in super slowmo
This product promo vid has been dubbed The Drop Tower of Destruction. It features OneUp‘s new bash guard being dropped from a greta height on…
Women’s only Red Bull Foxhunt back for 2016
The women’s only edition of this chase-race heads to a new location this October 1st and 2nd – Melmerby Scar, Cumbria. There’ll be approximately double…
ANOTHER new tyre size standard?
Is a new 2.6in tyre size standard on the horizon? We’ve been digging around and keeping a firm grasp of the grapevine and basically in an…