The Forestry 450 involves covering 450 miles exclusively on Forestry England’s cycle trails. You have between now and the end of October. I f and when you complete the task, you’ll get a medal to show off and a chance to win a prize bundle worth £1,000. You may have heard of the Rapha Festive 500 road cycling challenge thing (“500 kilometres. Eight days. December 24-31”). We assume this new Forestry 450 takes more than a little inspiration from it. Forestry England press release: Gear up for the ultimate riding adventure: Forestry England unveils Forest 450 challenge Are you eager to enhance ..read more

New Bikestuff Day is back! Here’s the most interesting stuff in our inbox this week (plus a quick debrief as to all the stuff that was announced last week) RockShox press release: Product Announcement | RockShox Psylo, Domain, Rudy ISOLATOR DAMPER With a nod to the premium Charger 3 damper found in our Signature Series forks, the all-new Isolator damper utilizes a shim-based, spring-backed Internal Floating Piston (IFP) damper to give riders a consistent and predictable feel throughout its entire travel. Isolator’s three-position Compression adjustment (Open, Pedal, and Firm) means that when ..read more

The first World Cup of the year took place in Brazil. Here are the results, race reports and a highlights video from Mairipora. XC World Cup Mairipora: results Race reports and photos courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports: UCI CROSS-COUNTRY OLYMPIC WORLD CUP : RISSVEDS AND BLEVINS TAKE CROSS-COUNTRY HONOURS IN MAIRIPORÃ Jenny Rissveds (Team 31 Ibis Cycles Continental) and Christopher Blevins (Specialized Factory Racing) put in assured performances in the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series in Mairiporã, Brazil on Sunday, taking wins in the elite UCI Cross-country Olympic World Cup even ..read more

Brand: Cannondale Product: Habit Carbon LT 1 From: cannondale.com Price: £4,750 Size: Medium Tested: by Ross for Singletrack World Magazine Issue 151 Buy raffle tickets (£5) We reviewed this bike in issue 151 of Singletrack World Magazine – read the full review here. Cannondale Habit Carbon LT 1 review Cannondale have stepped up and offered us this amazing bike worth £4750 for our first ever raffle prize draw. For a chance to win this bike and help us raise the money to upgrade our server you can buy raffle tickets from us via our page on Raffall.com. The Bike This is the Hab ..read more

Rattle, thunk, slap. For some lucky people, the print magazine has already landed, and for a few more it’s in the post. If you fancy joining riders and readers all over the world with some time out and a good long immersion in mountain biking tales and information, here’s what to do. The April issue is out now – here’s how to read it If you receive a printed copy of the magazine each issue it should arrive any day now if you’re in the UK. If it still hasn’t arrived by 22nd April please  and we’ll send you another copy. If you’re outside the UK, it might take up to a month to make its way ..read more

A whole new swathe of dampers from Fox: GRIP X2, GRIP X and GRIP SL. And a total rejig of the Fox 32SC 100mm fork for XC racer-types. Here’s the press release from Fox: THE NEXT GENERATION OF GRIP Dampers are the core of suspension As mountain bike riding and racing has evolved, so too have the need of athletes pushing the potential of what is possible on a mountain bike. Drawing on 50 years of suspension innovation, in 2024 FOX is launching three new dampers—each engineered from the ground up—that represent the pinnacle of suspension performance; the Grip X2 for ultimate descending performan ..read more

Whether you’re an established or aspiring trail builder, or even just a weekend rider, there’s something here for you in the Take Care Of Your Trails 2024 campaign. The Take Care of Your Trails campaign is based on a successful pilot project initially developed by Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland (DMBinS). In 2017, IMBA Europe adopted the concept and worked in partnership with DMBinS to turn TCoYT into a pan-European event. The objectives of the TCoYT campaign are: to promote trail stewardship and improve the image of our sport; to recognise the work of many MTB volunteers; to encourag ..read more

The latest movie from Utah based freeride crew In The Hills Gang is out. 44 minutes of freeride vibes, following in the tradition of the original Down trilogy that helped spawn the big branded freeride scene that we see today. And while the music – and some of the language – is NSFW, adults watching this may be distressed that they are not this young, this cool, or this talented on a bike. We take no responsibility for any midlife crises caused as a result of watching this video. Maybe you’ll see this and think ‘meh, freeride’. In which case let me try and explain what it is about this film t ..read more

If you’re a ‘sector leader’ in Wales, here’s your chance to get involved in a new project – which, if it’s as successful as DMBinS (Developing Mountain Biking In Scotland), could bring a big leap forward for Welsh mountain biking. After a few years of meetings which have nearly but not quite crossed the line into seeing a properly funded project in Wales to promote mountain biking, Welsh Cycling has decided to try and get things kick started, in the hope that other key players – like the Welsh Assembly, Sport Wales, and Natural Resources Wales – will be up for formalising something akin to the ..read more

Hang on a minute, cross compatibility… affordable groupset… short reach levers so everyone can ride bikes… it’s not a late April Fool, it’s a happy reality from Shimano. It’s apparently part of a move to simplify the line up, but it’s taken a bit of figuring out what the PR is actually saying. What’s also interesting is that this appears to be a focus on the entry-to-cycling market – whether that’s kids and teens, or just low cost of entry. We’ve not seen any big leaps at the high end of Shimano’s line up for a while – will we see them emerge as the Olympic hoo-ha warms up, or is better gear o ..read more