Liam Mercer

We’re back with yet another Five Cool Things. This week, we’re going to take a glance at Canyon’s latest mountain bike, Topeak’s pressure gauge with a bit of a difference, grips from Cast, Adidas’s riding shades, and Albek’s low-capacity backpack, all ahead of testing. Let’s go ahead and dive in.But before we get stuck into ... Read more

Ard Rock needs absolutely no introduction. Throughout its many, many years, it’s become renowned as the greatest mountain bike festival in the UK, as it welcomes riders to the incredibly windy hills of Swaledale to test their mettle against some awesome tracks. But it’s not all about racing, as in tow is one of the ... Read more

Like all forms of off-road bike racing, downhill is progressing at a rapid pace both in the tech employed to take podiums and the increasingly demanding terrain. Lots of brands have developed products to suit the new wave of downhill riding, and now, Maxxis has stepped into the ring with the all-new DHX tyre and ... Read more

Released in 2023, Mondraker’s Dusty came as quite a deviation from the brand’s mountain bike roots – though its first ever gravel bike was every bit as ‘Mondraker’ as you would expect. Back then, it donned a Mahle hub-drive motor and was very much a nod to the brand’s MTB history. But for 2026, the ... Read more

Recently, the off.road.cc team has been very busy converting Chinese XC mountain bikes to gravel bikes and even building our own custom machines from titanium. But I think I’ve taken things one step further here, taking a very good trail hardtail mountain bike and giving it the ‘convertible’ gravel treatment in the best way I ... Read more

This year, we’ve seen a good few super light cross-country bikes hit the market, like Specialized’s most recent Epic and Canyon’s new Lux, showing that sub-10-kilo XC bikes are becoming the new norm. But in true Dangerholm style, the man himself has taken Scott’s Spark RC and given it his own custom flair, and it’s ... Read more

Ever since gravel became a thing, Salsa has been at the very front of the trend that’s now become a fully fledged genre. So it comes as absolutely no surprise that the brand has welcomed 32-inch wheels and has built its latest Fargo around the hottest topic in off-road cycling. Here’s everything you need to ... Read more

RockShox is one of the biggest names in the realm of mountain bike forks, and for good reason. The company developed the first suspension fork in the form of the original RS-1 way back in the late 80s, and in 1990 Greg Herbold used it to win the inaugural UCI World Downhill Championship. Having been taken ... Read more

For one reason or another, you’ll eventually contaminate your brake pads and rotors. Usually, this’ll mean that you’ll need to replace them to regain solid and silent braking performance. But what if I told you that contaminated brakes could be fixed?Your bike uses a whole host of lubricants to make it work properly. Bearings are ... Read more

One of the beautiful things about mountain biking is that there’s a bike for every type of terrain. While that is such an excellent facet of the sport we all love, the glitz and glamour of big travel machines leads to one problem – overbiking – and you may not ever know that you’re overbiked. ... Read more