Mountain Biking in West Sussex – Powered by Quest Adventure
It’s a complex story this, of fork troubles, cracked frames and new beginnings that starts with my family holiday to Brecon, and ends with a new bike, the 3rd this year in the Daddy bike room. So, off we set to Brecon, having once again convinced Mrs Daddy that we should take the bikes on [...]
So here it is, the one I jumped the gun on….. Whyte T-120s The T-120 is Whyte’s new 120mm travel full susser. In common with some of the other bikes in the Whyte and Marin range the top tubes are now a little roomier and they run shorter stems, this brings them up to date [...]
I’ve been literally busting to tell about these new bikes for the last couple of weeks, but I’ve had to keep my lip buttoned until now! So without further delay I can finally show you some images of whyte’s 2011 line up and give you my impressions after spending a couple of hours out on [...]
JP and I took a trip over to Brighton last night to meet up with the Tuesday night ride from Morocco's on Hove seafront. Having had previous experience of these rides I knew I was in for a kicking, but rumour had it Adrian Carter of Pace would be present with his prototype steel 29'er. I decided [...]
Well it's been a mad week for me, I've spent three days on Aston Hill training to be a MTB skills instructor with the CTC. It was a great few days and when I got back I was desperate to get out and ride as soon as possible!! Fortunately we had a ride lined up [...]
I've been lucky enough to get my grubby little mitts on a few demo bikes after the last month or so, having had a chance to get to know them reasonably well I'll be posting a few reviews over the coming couple of weeks. First off the mark though we have the super lushness that [...]
This is one of my favourite times of year, the Sea Otter Classic is taking place and we get to see lots of new stuff. Some companies choose it to launch new stuff in other cases sharp eyed journo’s spot stuff on race bikes and sneakily photograph it. It’s long been rumoured that MTB’s would [...]
Well the dust, or should I say the mud, from the demo day has settled now, so I thought I’d write a few words to let you know what bikes I rode and what I thought of them. This first few months of the year has been awesome as Quest has had a nice flow [...]
I’d been looking forward to riding the 2010 Genesis Alpitude, I rode last year’s and loved it so I was keen to see if this year’s model was as fun to ride. The Alpitude differentiates itself from the Altitude by it’s slacker angles, beefier tubing and longer travel fork. When you first lay eyes on [...]
Ice Bike 2010 – Saracen Kili Flyer Ti Originally uploaded by 18bikes A lot of you guys out there probably see Saracen from their ‘Ur bike iz saracen’ Halfords days, but some of us can just about cast our minds back to the first explosion of popularity this MTB’ing thing we love so much had. [...]
