News Privateer Issue Two Out Now

Issue two of Privateer magazine is now available, and looks to have sailed over that “difficult second issue” hurdle with grace and style. Insightful, intelligent and in-depth, this isn't a mag that you'll be done with in twenty minutes and then recycle. There's plenty to appeal to Retrobike members, with features on the history of titanium and of course the Old World Mountain Bike Championships.
You'll also find a look at the birth of freeride, seven days in Wales, Hermida's facial hair, what's already regarded as the definitive story of Orange and a distinctive inky smell. Plus columns from Steve Peat, Rob Penn and Charlie Kelly. And how tectonics makes trails, and exactly what observed trials has (or hasn't) to do with mountain biking.
“Privateer's perspective, having been involved with this thing from the beginning, is that mountain biking is about freedom and joy under open skies and that all forms are implicit in all others. We make no distinction. Although that doesn't stop us being hyper-critical, thunderingly judgmental and bike geeky to the limits of endurance. That comes with the territory.”
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