With Ian Luff, each task is performed as enthusiastically as the last one, and is always carried out with a smile. Anyway, here’s his endtroducing...
Billy’s Kit Billy is our online editor. He wear loads of different fashionable items, but some of these things he wears more than others. Raceface DH ¾ shorts I...
Bontrager Race Lite Tubeless Wheelset Had a bit of a shoe–in this pair. These wheels needed to go in because having come as stock on a...
These Shimano XT rims are both a bit narrower and lighter than the AM ones, but they still feel like they’ll be up for a...
Finding a sensibly priced/decent quality 1.5” to 1 1/8” reducer headset was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, but we’ve finally...
As used by a certain Mr Hill, and if this Monster green colour isn’t quite to your taste then there’s also more subtle versions of...
Anyway, the good news is that these Seca 700 race lights were worth the wait...
Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush It is possibly by mistake that a bike of such badness has emerged out of the “marathon bike” category stamped on...
Bike Test: RAGE DH Jones might be completely wrong about the look of this bike. You may think it has a raw industrial appeal that far...
Elayna Caldwell has been entrenched solidly as one of the few distinctly female personalities hanging tough in the boy’s club of mountain biking since the...
Ed is our assistant editor, he’s Dirt magazines resident expert on all things mechanical and we call him the Colonel. Here’s the kit he always...
Sram X.0 and Gore Ride–On Cable Combo If you want a gear set up on your bike that’ll survive the worst Britain has to throw at it,...
For 2009 the Mountain Cycle Shockwave 9.5 becomes simply the Shockwave, and that’s because they’ve reduced the frames travel from 9.5” to 8”...
Bontrager Big Earl TLR ARC ‘Wet’ I’ve been a big fan of these tyres for a few years now, and thankfully Bontrager haven’t changed them....
STUFF I WEAR FOR DOIN’ PHOTOS LIKE. STEVE JONES Steve is our deputy editor, he rides his bike more than he’s supposed too, here’s the clothes...
Pedals Superstar Mag Lite CNC Pedals It was only when I picked these up off Ed H’s desk that I realised they were pretty special and...
Words Steve Jones Photos Victor Lucas This is a typical piece of French artistry, the likes of which we have not seen since the heady days of...
It’d be good if you knew a bit more about some of our other contributors, so this time it’s the turn of ‘Your Neck of...
Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard? Fox 36 Forks 2009 Here we bloody go again. Seems like only yesterday I was trying to make a meal out...
With all the stuff that comes through our door it takes something pretty special to get everyone gathered round...
THE WHYTE E120 This bike teeters on the very edge of the kind of bikes we have in this magazine. Its inclusion is hardly about its...
There are some faces that have been in the race scene for years, and then there are also just as many that disappear. Jerry Schipper...
For a while it was the free thinkers who ruled. Niche brands roamed the blistered, wrinkled and ripped skin of the earth’s surface on brawny...
Here’s another great value product from those ‘cut out the middleman’ guys at Superstar. The quality of finish is high and so is the construction...
