Words by Jon Harris

Sure they are pretty, and loud, but can they handle some abuse?

There’s a lot to life from Pivot for 2015 – and some of it is electric

Fat bikes galore at Interbike this year. Go on, you know you’re a bit of a chubby chaser…

Jon Harris managed to sweet talk his way into a couple of weeks on the Balance before its debut

Dougie “Fresh” Hatfield shows us around Ratboy’s World Champ’s race bike and gives up a few secrets

Convert your duallie into a pack horse, haul your gear, strip it to race horse mode…

19 questions with Stevie Smith about injury, recovery, bikes, gaps and bib shorts

Chewy fresh rubber and a place to put your backside.

Other racers used to call Nico The Alien – and that was before he rode a bike with a brain

Other than the 27.5 factor, the changes from the previous Wilson are subtle.

“…the small Chumba crew have gone back to their roots and are hand building steel hardtail frames in the United States.”

A full day on steel Chromag hardtails touching the four corners of Whistler? How hard could that be?

What bike do you ride when a chair lift can’t take you to all the heinous lines and you want to go for a mellow (or not so) rip?

“While the Spartan isn’t built like a wet noodle, if you are not slamming into a berm on a 4 minute race run at warp-factor-Stevie you can afford to slim a few things down…”

“Hiding within a nondescript industrial unit in Asheville in North Carolina is an engineering geek’s…”

We are a picky bunch when it comes to tires, but the Purgatory with Grid casing may be juuuuust right.

“It is named like some sort of covert space travel project but it is in fact a SPD compatible mountain bike shoe that promises to have a trick up its sleeve for us mountain bikers.”

Mavic’s Crossmax Hydropack fits the bill for all but the longest or shortest rides with a good range of features and design.

Once an unrepentant ‘bike tart’ Jon Harris has decided to settle down with a harem of two

The spring builds resistance up to the point of release, making it very clear to the rider when the cleat will release…

Think of it as the evolution of the freeride bike with the addition of modern geometry for riding fast technical trails.

Bringing the “snickityness” back to 1×10 dinner plate drivetrains everywhere…

The Sanction really is a scaled down Fury, but at the same time it is quite different…

“Scot Nicol has become a closet tire squeezer, checking my tire pressure and goading me to lower it…”