Why Mathieu van Der Poel will take over from Tom Pidcock as the ‘roadie’s mountain biker’ in 2025
Tom Pidcock won’t win a mountain bike World Cup or even finish on the podium in 2025, largely because he won’t actually be at any of the 10 rounds making up the UCI XC calendar. That’s my prediction ...
Bosch e-bike owners can now lock their batteries through their phone or Kiox displays to deter theft
Bosch’s Smart System equipped e-bikes just got another security upgrade, in the form of a Battery Lock. Essentially, it’s another digital lock for your Bosch powered e-bike, but this one prevents the ...
12 most exciting new trail, enduro, and DH bikes for 2025
It’s easy to get blinkered by e-bikes these days, but to do that would be to miss out on a pot pourri of exciting, innovative, and downright sexy new mountain bikes. Not to mention the fact that ...
Unboxing the £5,999 Amflow PL Carbon – what does it really weigh? And does the geometry match the claimed numbers?
What did you get for Christmas? I hope it was what you’d asked Santa for. Me? Well, I got the hottest new e-bike on the market – the Amflow PL Carbon, with the DJI Avinox motor for a longterm test.
Merida’s new ‘lightweight’ eOne-Sixty SL is a gorgeous-looking e-bike, but I think it’s powered by the wrong Bosch motor
Merida’s new eOne-Sixty SL is exactly the kind of machine that would have made our massive Superlight E-Bike of the Year ...
In a year of endless tech developments and electronic gizmos, my 2024 MTB Gear of the Year goes back-to-basics with not a battery in sight
Considering how many thousands of bikes I’ve ridden since my first bike test in MBR issue #3 in 1997, the fact that a pair of ...
Three products helped my riding more than anything else in 2024, here’s why they get my vote for Gear of the Year
Downhill racing drives mountain bike innovation like nothing else, and my Gear of the Year 2024 comes straight off the ...
My Gear of the Year: products that helped me progress and improve on the bike in 2024
There has been a whole host of new, cool stuff from suspension to cameras and of course, plenty of new bikes. With new motors ...
Opinion
An ode to the trail crews, the dig teams and the volunteers that keep us riding all year round
Storms, fallen trees and floods. That’s been the reality for many of us over the past month or so. And with that, comes the inevitable damage to our beloved trails up and down the UK. Add in the usual ...
2024: A review of the year in mountain biking, from Gladiators to snow bike racing via Eastenders (tenuously)
So to remind us of all the things that happened in the world of mountain biking, that have already been erased and overwritten several times in our world-weary cerebral cortexes, here’s a look back at ...
I love the support on Fox’s new 36 with Grip X damper, but RockShox’ Charger 3.1 eats it for breakfast
Boasting class-leading performance and that highly-desirable Kashima gold finish, the Fox 36 Float Factory fork with Grip 2 damper has been the benchmark suspension fork for many years now. So it’s a ...
Meet the team behind BikePark Wales that repaired 32 trails in three days in the aftermath of Storm Darragh
With the weather being the way it has over the past few weeks, it’s hard not to think about how it’s impacting our trail network. From fallen trees in Dalby Forest to downed power lines in northern ...