Nick Larsen’s been around the UK MTB scene for years – he was responsible for Pashley’s reinvention as a manufacturer of trials and jump bikes, and more recently has been running Gate Eight and the UK GT and Mongoose teams. Now he’s diversifying some more, and launching his own bike company.

It’s called Charge Bikes, but that’s about all there is to know at the moment. There’s mutterings about XC and jump/4X frames and titanium but at the moment it’s a question of getting the Charge name out there. To that end, Charge is running a daily t-shirt competition until the end of January – head over to www.chargebikes.com, stick in your details and you might get lucky. Even if you don’t win a tee you’ll get some stickers…