Getting ready for the start It’s about this time of year, as your feet are freezing into your shoes as you bash out a few winter...
The following series of events in no way represents the views or opinions of Bikemagic. Or me for that matter. GREAT A misty haze surrounded me as...
It’s been a while since anything terribly interesting happened to Rights of Way legislation for cyclists – 37 years, no less. The 1968 Highways Act...
7am in Milngavie – 97 miles to go The plan was simple. Take two riders of complementary strengths and weaknesses (me: local, OK on the technical...
You can’t keep a desperate man down. Imagine you are a twenty year old lad with two spankin’ Cove DH bikes in the garage, a pile...
Singletrack, Mallorca-style Think of Mallorca and there’s a fair chance that you think of Magaluf, bars, discos and drunken British tourists. But you may not have...
There are many “special moves” in the world of mountain biking, but most of them are concerned with the dull old business of keeping things...
Shred/Bikemagic.com’s Andy Carnell (Pic: Simon Kirk) There’s nothing better than getting back to your home town with a tan and a little sunstroke to find that...
Ice and deserts – a winning combination High altitude dirt road, four hour descents and stunning mountain scenery – my little mini-expedition from Urumqi through China’s...
Ned Overend is, quite simply, a legend. Coming to mountain biking from marathon running and road racing, he found himself racing against, and beating, riders...
Simmons Wades in at the deep end Ladder-drop X-up Gappage Shred/BM rider Mullane gets in on the act It’s not every day that we get to wag off work...
High speed fun in Dyfi Forest “Whuuuumppp!” The tyres slip across the compacted rock of the berm, edging towards the lip. The exit appears just in...
Gary Fisher opens the new Follow The Dog trail Sunday 13 March and, although it was my own suggestion, getting out of bed at stupid o’clock...
Climbing away from Lake Como “One last climb, then ‘gelati’ and cakes!” It all sounded so good in theory, except for one minor detail – that “one...
Glorious BC backcountry singletrack I’ve been riding mountain bikes for nearly 15 years. I’ve seen some strange things on the trails, burnt out cars, steamed up...
Al wonders if brighter trousers are the answer Impending middle age brings with it an eternal truth. Summers rush by, kids get taller, houses bigger and...
Keeping the roads ice-free, Urumqi style At -21°C, snow doesn’t melt. It gets packed down into a lethal sheet of ice with a density roughly equivalent...
Some of you may recognise my alter-ego Horace Fogsworth as having been a regular on the Soapbox until about a year ago, which was when...
We’d earned this, languishing in an Andalucian ice cream parlour, shovelling down a well-earned litre of exotic flavours. Only 5 hours earlier we’d been sitting...
Just get off and push They were waiting at the gate for me, visibly shivering. With tyres on the edge of traction and an ice sheet...
The clouds are turning peculiar shades of yellow against a darkening, yet somehow still vivid blue, background as the sun sets over the hills. And meanwhile...
And they’re off – the pack heads for the hills It’s six o’clock on a Sunday morning and I’m soooo tired, remind me again: Just why...
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