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7. Editorial Dave’s not here man.

8. International Travel: Norway Road Trip Matt and Benji spend a week – and a small fortune – touring this Scandinavian mountain bike heaven.

19. The Interview Edition An introduction to the main theme for this issue – asking loads of people loads of questions.

20. Interview: Mark Weir The most famous moustache in mountain biking breaks his silence. Actually, he was pretty mouthy beforehand.

22. Interview: Danny MacAskill The urban trials riding YouTube sensation speaks about what it’s like to be suddenly really quite famous.

24. Column: C-Lo Radsville Ms Radsville explains the trials and tribulations of being a beginner mountain biker when your other half has been doing it for years.

26. Interview: SRAM XX Dave Anderson rounds up a whole herd of componentry designers to find out what they dream about at night.

33. Bike Test: 4X Bikes The Singletrack Test Squadron spent the past few weeks on a tour of the UK’s finest trail centres to see if they could find the Perfect Park Bike.

44. Beer Run Oregon is the home of the American micro-brewery. Dan “Lucky Get” Barham got himself all liquored up and singletracked out.

52. Grinder A bumper crop of bits put through the mitts of us lot. Real world testing in an increasingly virtual world. Featuring the Spooky Horror Taxi 650B bike.

64. Interview: Rowan Sorrell Seeing as we’re testing trail centre bikes we thought we’d track down one of the guys who designs and builds the best ones.

66. Interview: MucOff’s Alex Trimnell You may not recognise the name but you’re bound to know the pink fluid that he produces, so to speak.

68. Long Term Test Bikes Here’s Benji with the latest update on his dirt jumping Diamondback Bandito and Sim with his sickeningly blinged-up Gary Fisher Roscoe.

70. Column: Philly D Philly is in a rut. He doesn’t want to be in it. How will he get out of it? And is it just a metaphorical rut or what?

72. Group Test: Bolt-Thru Forks Here’s a roundup of a few longish travel, lightish weight, air sprung bolt-thru forks from DT Swiss, Fox, Magura, Manitou and Rock Shox.

78. Cycle Show 2009 Roll up! Roll up! Read all about it! Here’s what delights are in store for you at this year’s cycling extravaganza in London town.

80. Singletrack Readers In Morzine A bunch of you lot and a bunch of us lot spent a great week down in Morzine with the lovely crew at Flow MTB. Here’s what went down(hill).

86. One Ton Weekend: Building A Pump Track Sim discovers what a mattock is when he tries to organize a digging posse to create something out of nothing.

92. Interview: John Chennells John holds the crayon box at Orange and can usually keep his colouring-in between the lines. He is occasionally let out to play with others.

94: Interview: Crawford Carrick-Anderson Faye Stewart interviews “he’s deaf you know” Crawford Carrick-Anderson via sign language.

96. Interview: WTB’s Mark Slate Our resident rubber geek Benji talks tyres with the guy who’s designed more than anyone else in the world.

98. Magura Competition Win yourself a pair of forks or a set of disc brakes in our exclusive competition.

100. Blame The Dog Mike Ferrentino’s regular letter from America. We’re beginning to wonder if he rides his bike at all or just screams at the internet all day.

104. Subscribe To Singletrack Here’s how and, more importantly, why you should put your name down on the list.

106. Interview: The CTC’s Colin Palmer This unsung hero of cycling access is the reason why we’re still allowed to ride bikes on Snowdon. Respect is due.

108. Interview: Geoff Waugh One of mountain bike photography’s Establishment. He’ll hate that title. He’s a great guy as well as a great snapper.

110. Column: Matt Letch Our anti-hero just can’t help himself when it comes to turning perfectly good bikes into things that they just don’t want to be.

112 Gallery: Steve Makin Did you make the most of Summer? Steve did okay by the looks of things. Here’s a collection of his most evocative shots.

116. Route Guide: North York Moors Jonathan Bateman shows us round the northern part of the National Park. If you go now you’re guaranteed to experience maximum purple heather.

126. Subscribers’ Club The listing of all the benefits and discounts you’re entitled to as a Singletrack Magazine Subscriber.

127. Outro The nineteenth hole.