May 2024 issue on sale now!

Published: April 12, 2024 at 11:02 am

May 2024 issue on sale now!

This month, we hit the Surrey Hills with Brendan Fairclough to talk Deathgrip, Rampage and World Cup retirement – and find out what’s next.

We also bring your our 25-page 2024 E-bike Guide packed with buying advice, reviews and tips, along with tests of saddles for men and women, and recommendations of useful tools for working on your bike.

Our routes guru Max picks his top three UK spring rides, and we revisit the classic Twrch Trail at Cwmcarn in South Wales.

All this, plus how to service your bike’s headset, a look at DMR’s Trailstar Ti hardtail, the latest product launches and much more. Not forgetting the icon that is Mint Sauce!

Calm before the storm

Anka Martin at home in Nelson, New Zealand.

Steve Behr heads to the Surrey Hills to meet Brendan ‘Brendog’ Faircloug h as he finishes wrapping his latest film project, Deathgrip 2.

2024 e-bike guide

Tom Law riding a Trek Rail 9.8 XT Gen 3 emtb . Bike Park Wales , Gethin Woodland Centre, Abercanaid, Merthyr Tydfil , Wales. March 2023 .

Everything you need to know about the technology, terminology and techniques of electric mountain bikes made simple. Plus, of course, in-depth reviews of the bikes themselves!

Saddles on test

In grouptest we've got 10 of the best seats on the market, tested by and for both male and female riders.

Cwmcarn Forest Trail Crew

14.03.24. Mountain Biking UK. Cwmcarn PIC © Andy Lloyd www.andylloyd.photography

This month the crew hit up the legendary trail centre at Cwmcarn Forest in South Wales, and have to contend with both the lengthy red-graded Twrch Trail loop, and the Welsh weather.

First rides

Don't miss our first impressions as we sling a leg over the newly-launched Specialized S-Works Epic, Canyon Spectral CF and Cannondale Scalpel.

And that's not all…

This issue of MBUK is jam-packed with all the latest and greatest bikes, product reviews and news stories from the mountain biking world. We've got six of the best workshop tools on test, tips to service your bike's headset and find the best maintenance kit, and much more, along with pages of product reviews in Wrecked and Rated.

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