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Somerled's Highpath is last week's Retrobike / Bikesoup 'soup of the Week'. Somerled wins an exclusive bikesoup t-shirt. Nice one! To win a Bikesoup t-shirt simply get your bike listed on the site using the free retrobike voucher code retrobike17dec. Click here for full details .

In order to increase the usability of the chat room we have implemented a few subtle yet worthwhile upgrades. Hopefully this will see more general chitter chatter occur in the chat room itself. It can be found here > http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/chat.php (registered and logged in users only). Use it or lose it Click here to discuss in the forum.

Jason's GT STS is last week's Retrobike / Bikesoup 'soup of the Week'. Jason wins an exclusive bikesoup t-shirt. Nice one! To win a Bikesoup t-shirt simply get your bike listed on the site using the free retrobike voucher code retrobike17dec. Click here for full details .

Wadsy's Fat Chance Yo Eddy is last week's Retrobike / Bikesoup 'soup of the Week'. Wadsy wins an exclusive bikesoup t-shirt. Nice one! To win a Bikesoup t-shirt simply get your bike listed on the site using the free retrobike voucher code retrobike17dec. Click here for full details .

Great five part series of articles by the former MBA Editor Zapata Espinoza on the inaugural UCI World MTB Championships in Durango over on www.mbaction.com. Click here for the linksto the individual articles and to discuss in the forum.

Bikesoup.co.uk the UK's new dedicated bike marketplace are giving away one t-shirt a week for new listings from retrobike members. All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning one is list your bike on bikesoup, ensure you mark the bike as being 10 years old or over and indicate you are a retrobike member. The weekly winner will be chosen on Friday. Don't forget retrobike members can list their bikes for free using the voucher code retrobike17dec. Click here to discuss in the forum.

Hopefully you are here becasue the server move has been successful. The server upgrade should bring a noticeable speed (and stability) increase to the site and give a solid platform on which to base future growth and developments. Enjoy :D

Bikesoup is a new UK bike specific marketplace for buying & selling, new & used bicycles. The website is programmed with cycle specific software that has been designed with ease of use as its primary goal. Not only can Bikesoup help you find a used bicycle but it can help you find a new one too. Bikesoup is an efficient resource that will allow you to search the nationwide independent bike dealer network through one simple search function. As well as buying and selling bikes Bikesoup offer discounted insurance and shipping services through their partners. To see what an advert looks like click here. To celebrate the launch, Bikesoup have teamed up with retrobike to offer a free taster for private sellers – simply visit...

This just in from the MTB Hall of Fame (or mtbhof). Sadly it looks like Geoff Apps was over looked once again. Still some very deserving inductees nonetheless. Click here to discuss in the forum. The inductees selected for placement into the 2010 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame are; John Ker, the legendary photographer for Mountain Bike Action, Jim Wannamaker, a knowledgeable, likeable, hard working ambassador for mountain biking and rider/racer support, Alan Bonds, an integral part of the early Marin County fat-tire scene and "The Fro Riders", Wade Simmons, Richey Schley and Brett Tippie, pioneers of the movement known as free-riding. To read full biographies about these deserving gentlemen, go to our website...

For those who missed it BBC4's Ride of My Life program is well worth checking out. Author Rob Penn travels around the world collecting handbuilt parts for his dream bicycle and charts the social history of one of mankind's greatest inventions. On his travels he visits Brian Rourke, Brooks, Campagnolo and Chris King amongst others and even take in a run of the Repack with Charlie Kelly and Joe Breeze. The program is available on the BBC iPlayer, click here to watch. Unsure if this will work for those outside the UK, perhaps someone could advise. The book on which the program was based, 'It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness On Two Wheels' is available here. Have bought a copy so will let you know what it's like. If the...

Saracen bikes are looking for people/bikes for the 'Heritage' page in their 2011 catalog. They are looking for owners of a Saracen bike from the glory days (approx. 88-98 ) They need pictures of owners riding or standing with their bike (old pics would be great but recent ones good too!) Or just the bike on its own. Anyone who's pictures is used will recieve a t-shirt! Please send your pictures to the Saracen graphic designer: kira.askaroff@madison.co.uk For more details please click here.

Another major milestone passed for retrobike - our Fifth Anniversary :) Little did I think the site I setup following a vague idea and a low key meeting with a small handful of other retro fans in 2005 would have over 10000 users and be going from strength to stength five years on. Let's hear your favourite memories from the last five years, click here to add them in the forum. On a personal level there are almost too many to document. Will have a quick go -meeting a lot of cool people at various meets over the years -the fine community spirit on the forum. Having this with 10k plus users is a real credit to the membership -getting continued input on the site from genuine figures in the history of mtbing. Repack Rider is of course...

Our 10000th user has just registered. When the site was setup just under five years ago thought we'd be lucky to get a few hundred....

Everyone likes Old School and none more so than Retrobike and Morvélo Bicycle Apparel. Fat Tire Flyer was the original mountainbike magazine co-founded in 1980 by one of the pioneers of Mountain Biking Charlie Kelly. It's pages contain classic imagery of early off-road action and this cover from May/June 1984, a bike pile after one of the customary early April "Derby's" in Marin County, sums up the care free and fun loving attitude of the time. Retrobike and Morvélo liked it some much they got in contact with Charlie Kelly to see if they could run a limited edition t-shirt of it. Not only did he say yes, but he also re-scanned in the cover of the original for them to use. His fee? "Just make sure you send me one of the t-shirts!" he...

Geoffrey Cleland Apps, the UK mountain bike pioneer has been nominated for the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame - hopefully this year he will be voted in and a glaring omission corrected. Mr Apps was riding bicycles off road in the mid 60s and his unique take on the 'mountain bike' pre dates the Marin County pioneers by several years. If you don't know about Geoff Apps I suggest you read up about him and his bicycles here on retrobike, here on wikipedia or here and here in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Graham Wallace, long time Apps aficionado has made the nomination and has gathered support from Bike Biz (read their article online here) along with such luminaries as Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher. What can you do? Simple. Click here to...

Dave Hemming's (alleged) old Fat Chance 'Harlequin' Yo Eddy has just appeared for sale ! Click here for full details, still awaiting confirmation from both Mr Hemming and the seller that this is the real deal.

For those who missed it MBR magazine joined us at February 2010's Thetford meet. The resulting article was out in last month's (April 2010) MBR. The magazine kindly agreed that we could publish a high res copy once the mag had left the news stand. Click here to view pages one and two and click here to view pages three and four. Click here to see the forum discussion.