Mountain Biking UK

Mountain Biking UK has got all the latest news, kit and exclusive info on the newest and best bikes. The MBUK Wrecking Crew testing team are out there right now, riding new bikes and products to destruction, to give you expert reviews you can count on to be brutally honest. We live to ride - and that's what makes MBUK Britain’s best-selling bike magazine.

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IN THE MAG THIS MONTH

OUT FRONT • WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF MOUNTAIN BIKING

ELECTRIFYING RACING ACTION! • As e-MTBs grow in popularity, there’s an increasing number of events where riders can indulge their competitive urges. Multi-discipline world champ Tracy Moseley explains all

DNA • Take a look into the life of Adam Brayton, the lightning-fast downhill demon from the Lake District

THE LIFE AQUATIC • Take a break from biking, hit the coast & paddle into the sunset or channel your inner Bodhi!

Launch Pad • THE NEWLY-UNVEILED BIKES & KIT GETTING US EXCITED THIS MONTH

INSANE PAIN • Malvern’s pride and joy, reigning XC world champ Evie Richards, shudders with anguish at the memory of the unbearable pain she went through dislocating her knee, when she feared it could be game over for her racing career

MBUK Month • The highs & lows of life on the mag

LEWIS DUNCAN • Not a pro quite yet, but this young GT Viris Team rider is well on the way

SEND IT! + win all off this • YOUR MAIL, PHOTOS, IDEAS & RANTS

OUT FRONT

#115 MARTYN ASHTON’S 1997 CANNONDALE B900 • Starring in the legendary Tricks & Stunts movie and taking its rider to a World Champs podium, this tweaked Beast of the East has a history like no other!

GOOD TIMES GUARANTEED • Don’t miss out – put the Malverns Classic in your diary right now!

FIRST RIDES

FIRST LOOK

BULLDOG UNLEASHED! • WE MEET UP WITH THE ‘PEOPLE’S CHAMPION’ BROOK MACDONALD TO GET THE LOWDOWN ON HIS AGGRESSIVE STYLE, RACING PEDIGREE AND WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A TOP DOG ON THE DOWNHILL SCENE

GRAB TRAILS BY THE SCRUFF! • HOW TO SHRED LIKE THE BULLDOG

LADIES WHO LAUNCH • WITH WOMEN’S FREERIDE GOING FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH, WE CHECK OUT THE STATE OF OUR HOMEGROWN DIRT JUMPING SCENE

BRAKING POINTS • We take a tour of Galfer’s Spanish HQ to find out what goes into making their pads and rotors

WRECKED & RATED

LONGTERM RIDES • Team bikes ridden hard for a year

BIKETEST ELECTRIC HARDTAILS • We see if motor assistance still works for riding proper trails on a bike with no rear suspension

GROUPTEST TRAIL KNEE PADS • Keep your pins intact with some midweight protection

HOW TO... FIND YOUR FLOW • Coach-to-the-pros Olly Morris gives his tips for attaining that elusive state of feeling at one with the trail…

GRIME TIME • EXPERT WORKSHOP ADVICE

BIGRIDE SUMMIT TO SEA • Riding across Exmoor with Trash Free Trails, Max goes on a litter-picking mission from the moors to the coast

TRAILCREW CHICKSANDS BIKE PARK • These superb Bedfordshire trails boast massive variety and a ton of features packed into a compact woodland site just 30 miles north of the M25

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GUIDE TO GRADING

417 BIKE PARK

BRISTOL

CHICKSANDS BIKE PARK

EXETER BIKE PARK

FOREST OF DEAN

GAWTON GRAVITY HUB

HADLEIGH PARK

HAMSTERLEY FOREST

ISLE OF WIGHT MTB CENTRE

LEEDS

OKEFORD HILL BIKE PARK

OLD HILL BIKE PARK

QUEEN ELIZABETH COUNTRY PARK

ROGATE DOWNHILL B1KEPARK

SHEFFIELD

SHERWOOD PINES

SHROPSHIRE HILLS

SOUTHAMPTON BIKE PARK

SURREY HILLS

SWINLEY FOREST • Swinley Forest is a long-established trail centre a stone’s...