One of SingletrAction’s regulars pontificates on the jargon, and the meaning, of mountainbiking in an effort to answer what at first seemed a simple couple of questions – What is gnar, and what is flow? Part 1 – The Gnar First things first. Us mountain bikers have silly names for things…
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Oct 07
Stainburn October dig day – An Indian summer dig!
What a fabulous day up at Stainburn for the October dig day in fact it was almost too warm, but who is going to complain at this time of year. It was a small crew this month just a 4.1 people turned out so we decided to concentrate on completing the new black rock section …
Sep 02
Peddling is for losers!
Apr 18
Digging It at Stainburn – April.
Lets not kid ourselves it’s been cold year so far. Dig days up until now have involved thermal layers and when we have swung a mattock into the frozen ground we’ve many times nearly blinded people with the shrapnel. So it was a joy to get up on Sunday morning and find a clear blue sky waiting …
Apr 10
Stainburn Black Spring Clean
It’s that time of year again! Last year a bunch of the Stainburn Trail Crew regulars took the Warren Boulder Trail by the scruff of its boulders and gave it a cleaning it would never forget. Finding lost trail, redefining the line and giving a few bits of loving repair where it was needed to …
Mar 02
JD CYCLES MTB extravaganza
To celebrate the resurgence of Mountain biking here at JD Cycles, we are pleased to announce the first in a series of Demo days. Based at our Ilkley store, we are running a great day aimed at providing customers with a fantastic range of test bikes from a selection of our brands. The 9th of …
Feb 28
Gisburn Forest Hub
There’s been lots happening over the last year up at Gisburn to help improve the facilities for all you Bikers out there. There’s a new Car Park, Skills Loop, Café and even a new Trail Head all to look forward to and the wait is almost over. On 23rd March a special guest will officially …
Dec 12
Lloyds TSB Volunteers at St Ives
We must be doing something right yet again, because for the second time this year we’ve had volunteers from LLoyds TSB wanting to help us out on a dig day. Back in June we had a group of volunteers help out repairing the jumps at Thackley, everyone seemed to have a great time and we got …