Final year juniors is a tough test for a young racer. While the Red Bull cameras may not be focussed on you, the team managers from Factory set-ups certainly are. The teenagers generally aren’t paid ...

Eight mil’ higher in the bottom bracket but the same amount longer in wheelbase than a similarly sized large Demo and with a slightly longer front centre, those are the numbers many will be looking at ...

Gearboxes are a tricky one. On one hand they keep your gears safe and clean, while centralising the mass of the bike. On the other they are heavier than traditional drivetrains. In enduro, where every ...

Kona were one of the companies who impressed in 2013/14 with the launch of their Process platform of bikes and a devotion to a new world of wheel talk; the range consisting of two 27.5″ beasts (the ...

Launched on a cut–down 66 VW, the new Santa Cruz Tallboy LTc was just the pick me up Jones needed to get out of his Sedona sick bed… Words by Steve Jones. Photos by Dan Barham and Steve Jones. A rough ...

Wonderfully low and colourful, and very much of the moment amongst the European all–mountain mindset, Commencal describe good enduro bikes as “not an XC bike that can descend but a downhill bike that ...

If you need a new pump up playlist then look no further. We’ve compiled all the Earthed soundtracks from Earthed 1-5 in a mega playlist chock full of bangers. There are some tracks that Spotify didn’t ...

This year we could walk up to the Giant Reign without any trepidation. The bike we tested (and eventually included in the 100) last year, sent out mixed messages. Wide bars, hefty discs, a chain guide ...

Unfortunately, if 26 ain’t dead then it’s certainly looking up a one-way ticket to Switzerland. There are now only a handful of new bikes still running the nearly obsolete standard and most are merely ...

An iconic brand, a bastion of mountainbike equipment used by regular riders day in day out offering great performance and superb, almost unbeatable reliability. One of the earlier Marzocchi forks, the ...

Shredding, hucking and jibbing, what more could you want from a Phil Atwill edit? Filthy Phil took to Whistler just before Crankworx to film this banger with Liam Joyce. Killer.

It seems crazy to imagine it now, but there was a time when we used standard stems on our DH bikes. If you had a crash it seemed that more often than not when you picked your bike up again your stem ...