"IT’LL BLOW OVER..."
When the weather turns against you, you’ve just got to dig deep – especially if it’s the day you’d picked to ride the toughest trail in the UK and you’re atop a Lakeland fell being blasted by gale-force winds and icy rain.

BIKETEST 
2020’S HOTTEST NEW BIKES - We put eight of next year’s most exciting rides through their paces, priced from £1,100 to £8,999

GEOMETRY LESSONS - Get your geek on and learn how
frame angles and tube lengths affect the way your bike handles – and, ultimately, how fast and confidently you can hit the trails.

SILK ROAD RACE - A quick look at some of the characters taking part in this 1,700km, self-supported ride across the sparsely inhabited mountains of Kyrgyzstan..

Red Bull Hardline
Naughty Northumbrian
Manitou’s Mezzer Pro
fork The Great North Trail
Mont-Saint-Anne MTB
World Championships, Your letters and photos,
including a roadtrip
weekender with mates,
keeping up with
tech-heads on an old bike
and more of your best
riding snaps...

SUB"£700 TRAIL RIPPERS: Four alloy hardtails that are ready
to shred and ripe for upgrading –
which is the most fun on the trail?, SIX OF THE BEST: Lightweight gloves – we test-ride six pairs to find the best options for balancing bar
grip, comfort and protection...

WHEEL SIZE TESTING: Racer, coach and tech expert
Will Soffe sets out to discover if big-wheelers are always fastest, or if ‘mullet’ bikes can bring the
speed to match their attitude, BIKEPACKING: Ed crosses the Cambrian mountains of Mid Wales to try
out bikepacking, the combination of off-road biking, wild camping and adventures in nature...

PRO VS PRIVATEER: Two very different experiences
of the Fort William World Cup, as we follow factory pro Reece Wilson and independent racer
Taylor Vernon, ENDURO RACING: In part five of our Dirty Half Dozen series, Luke returns to the racing scene to show why every MTBer should consider trying an enduro...

Riding in the fickle Welsh weather Enduro World
Series in Madeira OneUp Components’ EDC cockpit Ethan Shandro – DH young gun Scotland’s plans to boost mountain biking, Your letters and photos,
including how riding your bike is the best
remedy for mental stress, why British bikes are best and more of your best riding snaps...

The World Cup kicks off in Maribor Right-to-roam reform in Wales Santa Cruz V10 29er comes to market Cody Kelley
shines at EWS whip-off jam New bike park underway in Devon, Your letters and photos, including getting your kids away from their screens and onto bikes, why budget bikes are ace
and more of your best riding snaps...

SWITCHBACKS FOR DAYS: We encounter big climbs,
gnarly descents and endless singletrack on a multi-day adventure in the Swiss Alps, travelling from hut to hut, GREAT BRITISH HARDTAIL: We’ve finally got our handmade bike painted, lacquered, faced
and reamed. Now to build it up – but what ‘best of British’ parts have we gone for?...

STRATHPUFFER: Braving sub-zero temperatures and exactly zero sleep, Ed and Ben take on the infamous
Scottish 24-hour race and live to tell the tale!, SEE NAPLES AND DIE!: Always up for a challenge, Hans Rey braves live volcanoes and sheer cliff drops, not to mention gangsters and Italian drivers, as he rides the Amalfi Coast...

GREAT BRITISH HARDTAIL: We pool our collective knowledge to try to design and build the ultimate UK allrounder. In this first part, Ed heads over
to The Bicycle Academy in Somerset to construct the frame, BIG IN JAPAN: Catching up with the 50to01 lads in the Land of the Rising Sun, we find out more about their past, present and future – and why the bike media should focus less on race results and more on having a laugh...

FRESH BLOOD: Ten of the hottest UK riders to
watch in 2019 –expect to see these up-and-comers blowing the field apart at races and blowing up on Instagram!, EARTH, WIND & FIRE: Self-confessed ‘geo nerds’ Manon Carpenter and Monet Adams head to Iceland for spectacular volcanic landscapes
and trails that flow like lava...

Jordie Lunn’s jaw-dropping new edit Matt Jones swaps big
tricks for pump track fun Snowy shenanigans Home fitness gear The
man behind the Hurly Burly World Cup annual, We check out the Aaron Gwin-approved YT Tues CF Pro Race MOB Edition, the new Rocky Mountain Altitude Powerplay Carbon 70 e-bike and Ghost’s FR
AMR 6.7 AL freeride rig...

SIX OF THE BEST: Waterproof shorts – no one likes a soggy
backside, so what are the best options for
keeping your delicate bits dry and comfy?, WRECKED & RATED:

LEADERS OF THE PACK We test six 2019 bikes that could
make next year your fastest ever, whatever trails you love to ride, SIX OF THE BEST: Helmet lights – which of these lightweight, lid-mounted illuminators is best for lighting
up where you’re looking?...

WRECKED & RATED: The latest kit reviewed by our test team, including DT Swiss’s F 535 ONE fork and ABUS’s MonTrailer ACE MIPS helmet, SIX OF THE BEST: Mini pumps – which of these compact
inflators is the best for getting your tyres
up to pressure in a flash?, LONG-TERM RIDES: The latest on our team bikes – where we’ve
ridden, what we’ve changed on them and
what we’ve broken this month!...

Gwin and Minnaar’s World Champs prep Sam Flanagan Andy
McKenna Long-sleeve tops Santa Cruz V10 New Scott and Liv bikes Dave Garland Is doping happening in MTB?, Your letters and photos, including one of the shortest trips ever to
BikePark Wales, a nasty crash at Cannock, some acceptance for e-bikers and lots of summery riding shots...

ALL ABOUT AINSA: We explore the amazing trail network
around this sleepy Spanish village, which
has been thrust into the limelight by
the Enduro World Series and is keen to
embrace its new-found fame, THE HOTTEST 2019 GEAR: After attending dozens of bike and kit
launches across the globe as well as the
huge Eurobike show, our testing experts
have picked out the most exciting and
innovative gear you’ll want to own next year...

30 YEARS OF MBUK: To celebrate our anniversary, we take a look back at some of the defining moments for UK mountain biking over the past three decades, AGONY & ECSTASY: The Fort William World Cup track has been both a champion
maker and heartbreaker. We recount the highs and lows of
racing at the Fort...

Enduro World Series
Brandon Semenuk and
Rupert Walker get arty
NS Bikes Metropolis
Olly Wilkins heads deep
underground Dirt
jumpers take over at the
Isle of Wight MTB Centre, XC tech Matt Jones
Our favourite UK riding
spots Stealth kit Dual
slalom New YT Tues DH
bike Dan Milner’s
landmine slalom Pole
Bicycle Co Shimano XTR
goes 12-speed...

Lošinj World Cup Queenstown off the beaten track Troy
Lee Designs’ new D3 Fiberlite helmet Katy Curd’s comeback from injury Scottish shredding, Lesotho’s Kingdom Enduro Olly Wilkins Joe Smith Malverns Classic
– highlights and kit Top women’s bikes Cube’s
new Stereo 150 29 Tahnée Seagrave’s Transition TR11...

SIX OF THE BEST: We test out some of the best basic bike
toolkits, to cover your car park and shed
tinkering needs, GROUPTEST: We test out 15 of the best warm-weather
riding tops, because summer has to arrive at
some point... right?...

TAHNÉE SEAGRAVE: Fresh from her best World Cup
season to date, we catch up with the hottest property in women’s downhill to ride some of her
home trails in Mid Wales, LAST WILDERNESS: The Trippin crew strap tents and packrafts to their bikes for a paddling and pedalling foray into the untamed wild heart of Scotland’s Wester Ross...

OPPOSITES ATTRACT: We discover two very different – but equally fun – riding spots in the gorgeous and little-ridden Austrian Tirol, which deliver both bike park thrills and natural gnar, BIKE PARK VALHALLA: The Norwegian resort of Hafjell may just have the best bike park you’ve never ridden. It certainly left our Ed impressed – not something that’s easily done!...

KATY WINTON: We meet the EWS podium regular
and world champ in the making
on her home trails in Scotland to
find out what’s made her such a
threat on the race track, Your name up in lights,
this month featuring
some new riding
buddies, a Quasimodo
face (her description, not
ours!) and more of your
best riding shots...

Ben Nevis in the snow
Trials in the shadow of
Sydney Opera House
Enduro ace Mark Scott
Pole’s new Machine
superbike Leeds Urban
Bike Park opens, This issue we head into
the hills on the Merida
One-Forty 800 trail
bike, Rocky Mountain
Altitude Powerplay
Carbon 70 e-bike and the
hard-hitting Saracen
Ariel LT...

RENEGADE RIDERS: Meet the crews of beatnik bikers
who are keeping the original
spirit of mountain biking alive –
well, living the dirtbag lifestyle
and getting rad, TAMING THE DRAGON: One day, two riders, seven trail
centres, 215 miles, 8,000m of
ascent and a million midges.
Will our intrepid duo make it
across Wales in one piece?...

What’s it like to tackle the world’s gnarliest downhill race, Red Bull Hardline? We get behind the bar with Team MBUK’s Al Bond to find out for ourselves, AMAZING AZORES: These nine volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic have incredible scuba diving, surfing, swimming – and singletrack. Time to start saving....

Hometown heroes miss
out at World Champs
Red Bull District Ride
2018’s fastest Junior,
Matt Walker BOS’s new
Obsys downhill fork
Dublin gets its own
bike park, Nine Knights freeride
comp Hannah Barnes
Sam Hill’s favourite
riding spots Autumnal
kit Missy ‘The Missile’
Giove New Kona Process
Specialized’s big-hitting
Kenevo e-bike...

SCHOOL OF ’ARD KNOCKS: Our Features Editor Alex Evans and team
rider Al Bond are experienced downhillers, but how would they fare at enduro riding? We sent them to Yorkshire’s ’Ard Rock
Enduro to find out, STREET FIGHTER: Tom Cardy is one of the UK’s hottest street riding talents. Catching up with him at home
in Essex, we dodge security guards and zombie shoppers so he can show us some of his killer combo moves...

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