Pivot Shadowcat first ride review: lightly outrageous

Pivot Shadowcat first ride review: lightly outrageous

Pivot’s replaced the 5.5 Mach with a smaller, lighter, upright suspension trail killer. It it enough fun to justify the price?

Pivot Shadowcat 27.5: not for average mountain bikers?

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!

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

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!

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

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.

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 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Fresh Goods Friday 340

Fresh Goods Friday 340

We bring you: Good Friday Bank Holiday Friday Fresh Goods Friday

New Singletrack Partner Zone Launches

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

Mike Hall Sets New Divide Record

Great Divide record breaker Mike Hall interviewed minutes after the finish in his hotel room

New Pivot imminent – the Switchblade

New Pivot imminent – the Switchblade

Mysterious photo crops up on Pivot's website

Video: Bernard Kerr: Queenstown Living 2.0

Video: Bernard Kerr: Queenstown Living 2.0

Pivot's Bernard Kerr, Down Under

New Phoenix DH Carbon Frame from Pivot

New Phoenix DH Carbon Frame from Pivot

New carbon goodness straight from Arizona

Midweek Mini Movies 237

Midweek Mini Movies 237

Rain got you down? How about some midweek stoke to, er, stoke your stoke?

Downhill Legends, part one – Steve Peat and Dave Hemming

Downhill Legends, part one – Steve Peat and Dave Hemming

Jamie Edwards gets schooled

Eurobike 2015: Pivot

Eurobike 2015: Pivot

Sweet looking rides from Pivot next year

New Pivot Mach 429 Trail – UPDATED

New Pivot Mach 429 Trail – UPDATED

Mixes best bits of Mach 6, 429 SL and Phoenix for 29in trail bike joy

Singletrack Cinema 6

Singletrack Cinema 6

The theme for this installment? Dust – in memory of last week's brief hint of summer (sob)

Fresh Goods Friday 227

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 launch the LES Fat

Pivot launch the LES Fat

A full carbon fat bike from Pivot

Hot at the Roc – Indoor show highlights

Hot at the Roc – Indoor show highlights

Dave's been trawling the expo area to see what's on show

Issue 90 is at the printers.

Issue 90 is at the printers.

Brace yourself - the new magazine is on its way

Fresh Goods Friday 184

Fresh Goods Friday 184

Here's what dropped on the ST Towers doormat this week

Pivot Vault cyclocross bike

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

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?

Tour Divide 2013 – Are we nearly there yet?

Round-the-world record breaker Mike Hall smashes the Tour Divide race

Fresh Goods Friday 146

Fresh Goods Friday 146

It's Friday! That means another helping of the fresh goods

Midweek Mini Movies 137

Midweek Mini Movies 137

Grab them while they're hot; it's Midweek Mini Movies.

Interbike 2012: Show Randoms 2

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?

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...

Singletrack Issue 75

Singletrack Issue 75

The new magazine is nearly here...

Fresh Goods 155 – Updated!

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

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

Midweek Mini Movies

This week: 116 miles of rain, sunshine, X marks the spot, custom motorbikes and OCD skateboarding

Fresh Goods Friday

Fresh Goods Friday

It's July and our sack is bulging with good stuff from all over the place.

Midweek Mini Movies

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…

Long Termer Review: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

Long Termer Review: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

The final verdict. Looking for adventure.

Sea Otter: Random Roundup #1

Sea Otter: Random Roundup #1

Pivot, Crank Bros, Giro and more...

Long Termers: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

Long Termers: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

Trying to sort the lengths.

Long Termers: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

Long Termers: Benji’s Pivot Mach 4

First impressions from the first ride