Continuing the metal talk, the Race Pro uses a one-piece forged aluminium calliper, instead of moulding two halves of a shell ...

The XTR Di2 shifter feels more like a cable shifter (as opposed to the wooly computer mouse feel of SRAM AXS). There’s an ...

Even though Benji is currently attending a MASSIVELY TOP SECRET THING, there’s still a pile of new stuff to gawp at below.

Essentially a mesh gilet with full length zip and integrated armour, plenty of riders will get on well with this.

Everyone obsesses over frames, motors and suspension when they’re buying an e-MTB, and fair enough – that’s the bit you can’t change later. But once you’ve had the bike a year or two, it’s often the ...

Go north and then keep on going. Even without much sunshine – or indeed many trees – there is amazing riding to be had up there.

Tektro Gemini 4 pots. These were meant to be a cheap stop gap while I got some Hope brakes serviced, but they turned out to be brilliant brakes and have stayed on. 180mm 2.3mm thick TRP rotors front ...

The lovely steady flowy stage 1 I’d remembered from practice actually turned out to be quite tricky to race on once the adrenaline was flowing. It’s a beautiful trail, and as soon as I stopped trying ...

One of the biggest losses we had when the site disappeared over Christmas 2009 was possibly our most popular forum thread ever; affectionately know simply as ‘The Picolax Thread’. We were actually ...