Mountain Bike Rider

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd mbr is the UK's leading magazine for trail riding, mountain bike enthusiasts. Published since 1997, mbr aims to inspire readers to just get out and ride! with every issue, by providing the very best expert advice about where, what and how to ride. Every edition delivers the ultimate mix of inspirational riding features, with extensive bike and product reviews, along with superb advice and reader involvement - plus free pull-out route guides.

The Italian job • Employing a canny strategy for singletrack upkeep

BIG PICTURE

THE BIKE OF TOMORROW • Fully recyclable, seamlessly integrated, with electronic gadgets galore, or have we already reached evolutionary stability?

CHRIS PORTER • Mojo and Geometron founder, obsessed with fettling and finding the limits of bike design

FRANK DÖRR • Product development manager at YT, and the man behind the Decoy, Capra and Izzo

CESAR ROJO • Former World Cup racer, inventor of Mondraker’s Forward Geometry concept a decade ago, and now the engineer behind Unno bikes, based in Barcelona

ADRIAN CARTER • Founder of Pace, bike designer since the year dot

SAM MEEGAN • Brand manager, Privateer bikes

JOSE GONZALEZ • Jose heads up research at Trek, which means he’s literally in charge of the brand’s future, running the Suspension Lab in California and more besides

JOE BUCKLEY • Specialized e-bike director, the man behind Specialized’s lightweight SL bikes

WOLF VORMWALDE • Director of Specialized tyre development, eats and drinks rubber (probably)

PERFECT BRAKE SET-UP • How to get powerful, reliable and silent brakes in just five easy steps

ÖHLINS RFX34 M.2 DOWNCOUNTRY FORK £1,185

LAZER JACKAL KINETICORE £179.99

LOVE ISLANDS • Scotland’s islands make for the ultimate mountain bike getaway – find peace, quiet and some incredible riding off the mainland

BODYWE IGHT EXERCISES FOR MTBERS • No gym? No problem. Get strong at home with these foundational bodyweight drills

CANYON STRIVE CFR • The all-new Strive aims to be an EWS winner straight out of the box

STARLING ROOST • Is Starling’s new Roost cock of the walk or just an ordinary old clucker? We find out…

NUKEPROOF SCOUT 290 V3 • Nukeproof’s new Scout’s well prepared on paper but what’s it like the wild?

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FARMER JOHN, GRENOSIDE, SHEFFIELD • When Ride Sheffield decided to bring their trails up to date, dirt sculptor and fixer John Thorpe brought in Ollie, JP and Alex the Greek and together the Greno gang hatched an audacious plan…

THE TRAIL CREW

ENDURO? It's all child's play! • We take two little rippers along to the PMBA’s Gisburn Grassroots Enduro for a taste of the kids’ racing world

KID-FRIENDLY RACING

JUMPING WITH CONFIDENCE • Becoming an airtime expert is within reach of everyone; you just need the right position and timing

SEAN’S SONDER SIGNAL ST GX • MONTH 1: Is steel still the real deal? Sean goes back to his mtb roots to suss out the situtation

IN THE SHED

JAMIE’S SPECIALIZED TURBO KENEVO SL COMP • MONTH 6: After six months of abuse, Jamie takes a crash course in geometry to unlock the Kenevo SL’s full potential

JAMES’S FOCUS JAM 6.9 • MONTH 10: The devil is in the detail – so this month James sings the praises of some easily missed components

PB’S GIANT REIGN E+ 1 • MONTH 5: One month on, and PB has blown-up another Shimano derailleur after it exchanged blows with a stick

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