Singletrack award winners

Best UK Trail:

WINNER Coed y Brenin – Karrimor Route

Glentress – Black Route

Afan Argoed – Former 9 Feet trail

Mountain Biker Of The Year:

Patrick Adams

WINNER: Steve Peat

Daffyd Davies

Best Bike:

Specialized Enduro JOINT SECOND

Orange Sub 5

On-One Inbred JOINT SECOND

WINNER: Santa Cruz Superlight

Bike Porn:

Seven Duo

WINNER: Ellsworth Truth

Cove Hummer

Best Image:

Geoff Waugh – Three kings, MBR June 2002

WINNER: Mark Alker – Singletrack 2 Cover

Seb Rogers – Calendar 2002, May

Best Article:

Mike Davis – Peace and harmony through riding – Feng Shui Of MTB,

Various Mags (Singletrack 2)

WINNER: Chipps Chippendale – Riding The Snowy Gauntlet, Singletrack 5

Craig Latimer – Armchair feature, Singletrack 1

Best Event:

Sleepless In The Saddle

WINNER: Red Bull Mountain Mayhem

Coed Y Brenin Fat Tyre Festival

Best Ad:

Rocky Mountain – DPS Singletrack 3-5 + Other mags

Sideways Cycles – Singletrack 6

WINNER: BikeMagic – Distracting cyclists from work campaign

Best Shop:

Chain Reaction (given an award category of its own)

Chelmer Cycles

WINNER Sideways Cycles

"We will most likely do the awards again next year," said Singletrack’s Mark Alker.

"We’ll give people a little more notice next time though and of course we will be tightening up the qualifying criteria for a bike shop!"

PIX BELOW:

Dafydd Davies of Coed y Brenin being presented with spiky gong for best UK trail. MC for the evening was Gaviscon-empowered Brant Richards.

Mike Davis of Bikemagic accepted the award for best ad, even though it was originated before securing the editor’s job at the online mag.

Singletrack exhibition and awards co-sponsor Willem Vlok of Basta was the successful bidder for the half page ad in BicycleBusiness.

LINK:

http://www.singletrackworld.com/article.php?sid=779&PHPSESSID=3c9caecd7ae3e144fc13dc7516a28082