Pivot’s replaced the 5.5 Mach with a smaller, lighter, upright suspension trail killer. It it enough fun to justify the price?
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Pivot Shadowcat 27.5: not for average mountain bikers?
The wheels on the Pivot Shadowcat may be small but the standover is massive. And the suspension capability should be fairly large too.
5 Minutes With Ed Masters – Don’t Be Serious!
Pivot Factory Racing rider Ed Masters stops for 5 minutes to tell us how he keeps things fun – and why he thinks you should too. Tell us who you…
9 New Bikes In 7 Days! Catch Up With The Bikes Of The Week
It’s been a mad mad week here at Singletrack Towers. It’s not even a trade show, or a big festival, so why are all these new 2020 bikes appearing just…
New Pivot Switchblade | Flip Your Chip And Choose From 29 Configurations!
Pivot Cycles reveals the new Pivot Switchblade – “a bike with extraordinary versatility and category bending capability that redefines performance across every type of trail.“ As you might expect, it…
Top 10 Most Read Singletrack Reviews Of 2018, And Number 1 Isn’t an eBike
Last year was pretty full-on for reviews. We tested some of the hottest bikes on the market, both standard and e-MTB types (GASP!), we reviewed the latest clothing, accessories, brakes,…
Fox Live Valve – Is It Better Than Turning The Knobs Yourself? Maybe Not.
We had a week to ride a Live Valve equipped bike on our own trails. What did we think? Chipps takes up the story... Fox Live Valve has just been…
Pivot Cycles Breaks The $11,000 Barrier With Fox Live Valve equipped Pivot Mach 5.5!
Pivot Cycles is the first bike brand to send over a press release announcing it’s bikes with Fox’s new Live Valve suspension system.
Fox Live Valve Launches, but what is it?
After years of behind the scenes work and glimpsed prototypes, the Fox Live Valve system is finally ready to be released to the world. Around the time you read this,…
9 Prototype Bikes Spotted At Fort William 2018
Being just the second round of the 2018 Downhill World Cup, there are still new and prototype bikes popping up that we haven’t yet seen in the flesh, and seeing…
Eurobike 2017: Pivot Shuttle & 10th Anniversary Mach 5.5
As one of the first boutique brands to offer up an e-MTB, Pivot Cycles has gone head-first with the Shuttle: A 140mm travel, full carbon, 27.5+ beast
Pivot Increase New Bike Warranty To Ten Years
To mark becoming a decade old, Pivot have increased their warranty period to match.
Pivot TwentyFour12 Race Celebrates 12 Years
It was subtitled 'The Dirty Dozen' for its 12th birthday. It turned out to be more on topic than anyone could have imagined.
Watch Our Live Coverage From The Pivot TwentyFour12 Race
If you can't make it in meatspace come and join us in the virtual reality that is our live Facebook broadcasts.
EWS Pro Bike Check: Antoine Caron’s Pivot Fireblade
We grabbed five minutes with this XC turned enduro rider to see how his Pivot Firebird is set up for technical trail riding and enduro racing
Pro Bike Check: Mason Bond’s Pivot Switchblade
We grabbed five minutes with the EWS rider to see how his Pivot Switchblade is set up for the Jura Enduro race
PressCamp 2017: New Mach 4 & LES From Pivot Cycles
The LES 27.5 gets an all new carbon frame, while the new Mach 4 can now take up to 2.6in wide rubber and 100-130mm fork travel
First Look: Pivot Mach 5.5 Carbon
We were whisked away to the Forest Of Dean at the last minute for this top secret launch.
New Singletrack Partner Zone Launches
There's a new area of our site launching today featuring a host of hand picked brands and companies we think you may like.
Mike Hall Sets New Divide Record
Great Divide record breaker Mike Hall interviewed minutes after the finish in his hotel room
New Pivot Mach 429 Trail – UPDATED
Mixes best bits of Mach 6, 429 SL and Phoenix for 29in trail bike joy
Singletrack Cinema 6
The theme for this installment? Dust – in memory of last week's brief hint of summer (sob)
Fresh Goods Friday 227
Carbon aceness from Pivot, X-Fusion and Rockshox forks, natty shoes and all new Shimano XTR Di2, plus loads more!
Pivot Vault cyclocross bike
Just because it’s not Belgian, don’t discount the Pivot. It’s a cyclocross bike for the new breed.
Issue 83: Pivot Les
The Pivot Les (see what they nearly did there?) is partly here to show that a fixed blade fork can be plugged into any hardtail. Okay, the Les isn’t just…
Tour Divide 2013 – Are we nearly there yet?
Round-the-world record breaker Mike Hall smashes the Tour Divide race
Interbike 2012: Show Randoms 2
Jeff and Jessica walked the floors of the 2012 Interbike bicycle trade show in Las Vegas to gather more of the interesting bikes, bits and unusual sightings.
Eurobike 2012: Pivot Cycles – Les is more?
What do you call a Pivot without any? Les, that's what. We also check out the new carbon fibre Mach 429...
Fresh Goods 155 – Updated!
Fresh Goods Friday is actually Fresh Goods Thursday this week, although thanks to the wonders of the internet you still won’t get to read it until Friday. Blame editors zipping…
Fresh Goods Friday
Yup, most of us are on the final straight before Christmas now but here at Singletrack it’s a bit like Santa’s been already – it’s a bumper edition of Fresh…
Midweek Mini Movies
This week: 116 miles of rain, sunshine, X marks the spot, custom motorbikes and OCD skateboarding
Midweek Mini Movies
This week’s edition of small streaming movies is here; goodbye productivity, hello hiding your browser window behind a particularly impenetrable looking spreadsheet…. We’ll start this week off with MS Evil…
