''Singletrack'' is a UK-based
mountain biking magazine and web site. The magazine is aimed at more mature mountain bikers and intended to provide a counterpoint to magazines such as
MBUK which are aimed at a younger audience. It is based in
Todmorden
Todmorden ( ; ) is a market town and civil parish in the Upper Calder Valley in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England. It is north-east of Manchester, south-east of Burnley and west of Halifax. In 2011 it had a population of 15,481.
Todm ...
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West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and Humber Region of England. It is an inland and upland county having eastward-draining valleys while taking in the moors of the Pennines. West Yorkshire came into exi ...
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History and profile
''Singletrack'' was founded in 2001 by
Chipps Chippendale, Mark Alker and Shaun Murray. The magazine is currently published six times a year in both print and a variety of digital formats. In 2011 Singletrack published its first eBook - a collection of the previously published columns of Mike Ferrentino.
''Singletrack'' grew from an earlier web site, GoFar, an acronym for 'Get Out For A Ride', which ran from 1998 to 2001 and was founded by Matt Wenham along with many contributors from the
uk.rec.cycling Usenet
Usenet () is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers. It was developed from the general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture. Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979, and it wa ...
newsgroup including Shaun Murray, Callum Wilson, Tony Raven, Russell Pinder, Myra VanInwegen and others, and from outside Usenet, Mark Alker, Carvel Lonsdale and many more. GoFar was largely a reaction to the death of the Future Publishing magazine ''Mountainbike World'' on which
Chipps Chippendale once worked.
''Singletrack'' magazine won th
Best Cycling Magazine award in 2009and 2010 - Awarded by Bikebiz trade magazine. In 2011 ''Singletrack'' also won the Northern Sports Awards, Best Website category. In May 2012 the Specialist Media Show awarded Singletrack a Media Pioneer Award for its approach to combining digital and print into a combined publishing strategy. Singletrackworld.com wo
best website 2013awarded by Bikebiz trade magazine.
References
Bikebiz Award Winners 2009
External links
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Sports magazines published in the United Kingdom
Cycling magazines published in the United Kingdom
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 2001
Mountain biking magazines
Cycling websites
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