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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bike that stands near the very top of the all-time most successful race bikes. Only the likes of the inimitable Sunn team of the nineties stands above. Since 2006 when they signed Steve Peat, the ...

Melon Optics started with the concept of custom spec goggles for the snowsports market at truly affordable prices. Co-founder and CEO James Pointer started doing seasons in France straight out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Myst Team is Saracen’s flagship bike. Draped with all the goodness that would be expected of a world class machine. The Saracen Myst comes in three sizes for 2018. Medium to XL this should cover ...

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 ...

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 ...

Words and photo by Ed Haythornthwaite. That ‘chain stabilising’ switch engages a clutch mechanism which in one fell swoop puts an end to a load of the things which I hate about conventional gears.

There was a time not so very long ago when the jump from 140mm trail to 200mm downhill was simply too much. Riders were happy with bikes such as the Orange Five for their day-to-day riding before ...