2012 UCI Downhill World Championship winner Greg Minaar is ready for mountain bike season. Are you?

The Trail Ninja (aka Dan Milner) goes in search of mysto pump track voodoo and finds it in Mark Weir’s backyard.

Hans Rey began riding in the late ’70s and is widely known as a pioneer in mountain bike trials and extreme mountain biking. In this interview he talks about trying to change the term bunny hop, how his Grandmother is pulling mad tricks thanks to today’s mountain bikes, and the only undergarment that was ever thrown at him. Dan ...

News is that summer is almost here. Well, in Marseille at least. There can be no other excuse for the kind of semi-naked behavior exhibited at the end of this film of the indoor jump event in southern France last week. After a long winter of discontent, wielding fidgety legs and almost endless creative incarnations of mountain biking – ...

Unlike the outgoing Pope, Hans Rey – perhaps the most famous mountain biker in history – doesn’t speak Latin. Nor is he about to resign. EpicTV cornered this lovable, if Americanised, Swiss rider for a cuppa and a 10×10 Interview that you can watch here on the 1st of April. No, Hans hasn’t won any muddy World Cup DH races ...

Welcome to Tool School - Tim Emmett’s monthly guide for kit you wish you had when pushing your limits!   Ueli Steck – the Swiss climbing machine, has been working closely with the design teams at Scarpa and Mountain Hardwear to create his dream selection of kit. The result is a range of clothing, equipment and footwear that ...

Nobody goes looking for pain, but it has a habit of sneaking up on us, often unexpectedly and out of the blue, like the dreadlocked traveller in India you swapped addresses with in passing, believing there was no chance he’d ever make it to your home town. But what comes next? As we all know, pain is a real part of our sport. If ...

Can riding bikes spell the savior of the human population? A sideways look at the latest scare suggests ‘yes!’ The UK’s government health department is up in arms following their chief medical officer’s warning that we’re about to be hit by a supergerm that no drug will neutralize. The overuse of antibiotics has dealt the ...

There’s a reason that the perfume and make-up section is always to the left when you walk into a department store. Apparently that’s the direction most females turn when they enter the doors of such monoliths of consumerism. Blokes, well, we go right. Like bats leaving a cave, apparently. So here at EpicTV trail HQ we were a little ...