With 22 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
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Good lord, I was at exactly the saame event and I didn’t see an 8th of what Chipps did! Conections are handy things, eh? 😉
First class coverage of the event this year guys. Picture overload! Shiny stuff we like.
I don’t care how impractical those Joplin brake levers are – they’re ace.
And the split dropout looks like the first elegant solution to that whole ban’t-split-a-belt-drive problem. What sort of axle does the hub run on?
Loving the Madone commuter, just what I need for my new job tomorrow.
i want those grips on the commuter freak bike
Grips are by Portland Design Works. Lovely!
Disturbingly, that commute bike is probably one of the most interesting bikes I’ve seen pics of from Sea Otter, and it’s almost certainly never to be available to buy, maybe that’s the appeal???
Alloy bolts holding a brake caliper on!!!!!!
Best photo report so far. Lots of Oooos and Ahhhs.
I believe Greg Watts’ Roscoe has been dubbed the ‘Watts-coe’. Really!
I’d like to see the kid on that blingy gold POS spin his bars with those rear brake and gear cables attached where they are
bring on the belt drive, its da future
The Trek commuter is ace!
as above, the commuter is brilliant.
love the “any direction” brakes.
how pointlessly ace.
That tranny needs a split rear…. for a beltdrive
As the downtube shift returns to centre, I bet shifting with your knee wouldn’t be too bad…
However, on a serious note, are these companies serious about releasing so much sexy kit, at the same time as prices rocket and peoples available £ plummets? Can’t help but think that most of this stuff will never actually sell. Nice to see though. Maybe in 20 years?
As the downtube shift returns to centre, I bet shifting with your knee wouldn’t be too bad…
However, on a serious note, are these companies serious about releasing so much sexy kit, at the same time as prices rocket and peoples available £ plummet? Can’t help but think that most of this stuff will never actually sell. Nice to see though. Maybe in 20 years?
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“However, on a serious note, are these companies serious about releasing so much sexy kit, at the same time as prices rocket and peoples available £ plummets? Can’t help but think that most of this stuff will never actually sell. Nice to see though. Maybe in 20 years?”
i’ve just got off the phone with Moulton – they’ve got a 13 month waiting list for some of their more expensive bikes. and that’s Moulton, we’re talking Jeff Jones money and more, recession my arse…
How long are you guys going to be stuck out there with this Volcano lark going on?
You actually can buy a version of Ray’s Trek commuter bike. His bike was the prototype for what is now the District Carbon:
http://www.trekbikes.com/uk/en/bikes/urban/district/districtcarbon/
It doesn’t have the Joplin brake levers, since that’s not their intended use. It is the same frame as the version shown above, however.
It’s a normal wheel axle, btw.
And yes, Greg Watts’ bike is dubbed the ‘Wattscoe’.