Mountain Bike Blog - Buying Guides

The blogs on this page come together to make up our Mountain bike buying guide. This guide is tailored to help both new and seasoned riders navigate the diverse landscape of Mountain Bikes, eMTBs, and the gear & accessories that go with them. We aim to provide invaluable insights on how to choose the right bike for your needs, factoring in everything from frame size to wheel type. This guide aims to help your decision-making, ensuring you find a mountain bike that not only fits your riding style but also improves your enjoyment of the sport.

Ultimate Guide To Mountain Bike Goggles

Mountain biking is an exhilarating yet risky outdoor activity. The sport requires a great deal of skill, determination, and equipment that protect bikers from...

Guide To Mountain Biking Sunglasses

When you're hitting the trails, mountain biking sunglasses are an essential part of your gear. Not only do they protect your eyes from the sun and wind, but they...

Do You Need Mountain Bike Socks?

Mountain biking is an exhilarating and demanding sport that requires a lot of physical effort. You don’t just need to have the right gear and equipment, but...

The Best Mountain Bike Tyre Brands In The UK

Mountain biking is an outdoor activity that requires a reliable and durable bike that can withstand tough terrain. One of the most important factors that...

Five Ten MTB Shoes Guide

When it comes to mountain biking, choosing the right shoes can make a significant difference in your performance and comfort on the trails...

Choosing The Right Orange Mountain Bike

Mountain biking is one of the most thrilling and adrenaline-pumping outdoor activities there is. And no bike brand matches your passion for the sport...

Fox Rear Shock Guide

Fox is one of the biggest and best names in mountain bike suspension, designing and manufacturing an incredible range of MTB forks and shocks, which provide...

Mountain Bike Wheel Buying Guide

There are so many different styles and types of mountain biking, that each component and mountain bike is very different. Wheels are an incredibly...

Valentine's Day Gifts For Mountain Bikers

If your valentine is a keen mountain biker, then you are lucky - not only are they more than likely incredibly cool, as well as physically fit - Valentines day, and...

Mountain Bike Upgrades Under £100

It’s very easy to spend a lot of money on upgrading mountain bikes, but are there still affordable, low budget mountain bike upgrades which can be made? The...

Down Country Bike Guide

There are many different mountain bike disciplines, which have given rise to a large number of different mountain bike types. Down Country Bikes is one such segment of mountain bikes which are...

Buying a MTB Dropper Post

In a world of almost endless available mountain bike upgrades, the dropper post remains one of the most popular, and one of the most important. Dropper posts are now seen on all kinds of...

Best Mountain Bike Cleaning Products

A lot of people invest good money in their mountain bikes, not only spending a lot of money when they first purchase their mountain bike - but also spending...

Best £500 Mountain Bikes

Although cheap mountain bikes fail to perform well in many areas, a fantastic mountain bike can still be purchased for around the £500 mark, the world’s leading bike manufacturers...

Beginner Mountain Bikes

We believe everybody can remember the very start of their mountain biking journey, instead of riding along complete flat and smooth ground - the first mountain bike ride can be an equally scary...

Advanced And Expert Mountain Bikes

We know the importance of ensuring that you choose the right mountain bike for your riding requirements, as well as ambitions. If you get this balance right,...

Orange Full Suspension Mountain Bike Guide

Orange Full Suspension Mountain Bikes are some of the most unique bikes that we sell here at Westbrook Cycles. Pioneers of trail and downhill riding,...

Electric Hardtail Mountain Bike 2021 Guide

Electric Mountain Bikes have easily become our best selling ranges of bikes online here at Westbrook Cycles - with those new to the world of mountain...

Best Mountain Biking Shorts

If you mention cycling clothing to anybody, it’s almost guaranteed that their first thought will fall to lycra and all kinds of revealing ensembles. There are...

Best Mountain Bikes for under £1,000

There’s not a massive amount in the world you can get now for £1,000, but you can still get a fantastic quality mountain bike - capable of getting you well and truly off the beaten track for adventures...

Best Mountain Bikes for Everyday Use

At Westbrook Cycles, this is a question we hear a lot from our customers - what mountain bike is best for everyday use? Everyday use is of course different for...

Best Electric Mountain Bikes under £2,500

Electric Mountain Bikes have truly revolutionised mountain biking in recent years, and here at Westbrook Cycles - even our most traditionalist and purist...

Best Electric Mountain Bikes

Electric Mountain Bikes are the most technologically advanced mass market mountain bikes for sale. The research and design, as well as the quality of...

Mountain Bike Jersey Buying Guide

Although it’s easy to assume that cycling jerseys are the reserve of road cyclists, there’s actually a fantastic range of Mountain Bike Jerseys available to buy...

Best Baggy Mountain Bike Shorts

Although tight lycra can look pretty cool, there’s nothing really cooler than baggy mountain bike clothing, manufactured by some of the coolest and most respected mountain bike...

2020 Mountain Biking Body Armour

The New Year is always a really exciting time for us here at Westbrook Cycles, we finally get our hands and can supply all of the latest stock that our suppliers have been working on for the...

Used Electric Mountain Bike Buying Guide

If you are new to the world of electric mountain bikes, looking at the new RRP prices from manufacturers may give you a bit of a shock! Although cheaper electric mountain bikes are available, under budgets of £2,500 - a second-hand...

Fox Fork Buying Guide

At Westbrook Cycles, we are proud to work with some of the biggest and best mountain bike brands in the world, and Fox is certainly a brand which deserves such accolades. Fox has been around in...

Mountain Bike Tyres Guide

Mountain Bike Tyres are designed for off road use, and typically feature raised tread patterns known as either ‘knobs’ or ‘lugs’ which dig into loose material and ground, providing the best...

Mountain Bike Helmets Guide

Across the full Mountain Bike industry, and the cycling industry in general, technological advancements have made the sport not only more fun, but also a lot safer. Not surprisingly one of...

Intermediate Mountain Bikes

We know how important is to buy the right bike for your requirements - and that’s why our customer services teams are equipped with all of the knowledge required for our customers to make the...

Best Mountain Bikes for Recreational Riding

Mountain Biking is one of the very best recreational hobbies that you can do, getting you outside in the fresh air - whilst getting you fitter and stronger in the process. Mountain Biking does...

2020 Electric Mountain Bikes

The start of the year is always a really exciting time for us here at Westbrook Cycles, it’s the time of year when we get our hands on the very latest releases...

2020 Scott Mountain Bikes

Scott is one of the brands that we work with most closely here at Westbrook Cycles, for so many different reasons. As well as representing excellent value for money for the specification...

Mountain Bike Grips Buying Guide

At Westbrook Cycles, we place massive importance on the contact points that a mountain bike has with it’s rider - mainly the handlebars, bike grips, saddle, as well as pedals. Getting...

Mountain Bike Disc Brake Guide

Almost everybody who rides a Mountain Bike, or has bought a Mountain Bike in recent years, will be riding a bike which has been fitted with Disc Brakes. Disc Brakes have long been the brake...

Kids Full Suspension Mountain Bikes for Sale

Full Suspension Mountain Bikes are the ultimate in mountain bike performance, boasting suspension at the front and rear of the bike - in the form of a rear shock and front suspension forks...

Best Mountain Bike Tyres For Different Surfaces

Mountain Bikes usually come with a decent set of tyres on them, which allows for all kinds of mountain biking to be carried out across a wide range of different terrain - across different...

Mountain Bike Tyre Guide

Mountain Bike tyres provide the only contact that you and your bike will have with the ground that you are travelling across, and with mountain biking taking place over incredibly varied...

Electric Full Suspension Mountain Bike 2021 Guide

At Westbrook Cycles, we stock and supply a complete range of Full Suspension E-Bikes Online. In recent years, we have seen many customers and many members of staff resist the

Baggy Mountain Bike Shorts Guide

Baggy Mountain Bike Shorts are ideal for everything from cross country mountain bike blasts, right across to the daily commute. Comfortable and stylish...

Best Under £1000 Mountain Bikes

A £1,000 is a fantastic budget for a hardtail mountain bike and once you accept you are not going to spend multiple thousands of pounds on a...

Best Under £750 Mountain Bikes

£750 is a great budget point for getting a high quality, incredibly usable mountain bike. At this price point, you can expect to buy a high quality hardtail mountain bike, with a good standard of...

Best Under £600 Mountain Bikes

Mountain Bikes can easily cost 10 x £600 for an all singing and all dancing full suspension mountain bike, from one of the world’s leading bike brands such as Scott and Cannondale...

£3000 Mountain Bikes

There is an eye watering range of mountain bikes available, with budgets ranging from around £500 for a good level hardtail mountain bike, to multiple thousands of pounds for race ready...

Mountain Bike Trousers Guide

Mountain Bike Trousers, also called MTB pants - are a great choice for mountain bikers all year round, but especially when the colder weather bites during the winter months. Mountain bike...

Mountain Bike Geometry Guide

Mountain Biking is one of the most diverse sports and hobbies in the world, with many mountain bikes being almost completely unsuitable to crossover

In Stock Mountain Bikes UK

It’s no secret that mountain bike stock has been limited in recent times, for many different reasons - increased demand for bikes, with more people taking up cycling during lockdown...

Rockshox Rear Shock Guide

Rockshox design and manufacture an excellent array of rear shocks, suited to all kinds of mountain bikes. These shocks are often bought by our customers as means of upgrading their full...

Rockshox Forks Buying Guide

There aren't too many people in the world of mountain biking that have not heard of Rockshox. Founded back in 1989 in North Carolina, the company shortly after setting up, moved to

SRAM MTB Groupset Buying Guide

SRAM is an American bike component bike brand which set the standard for groupsets and chainsets - achieving market domination, in a very short space of time. The product they...

MTB Tyre Inserts Guide

Mountain Bike Tyre Inserts are one of the best upgrades you can make to your mountain bike; they are fantastic for so many reasons - and in our opinion, it’s

Best Electric Enduro Mountain Bikes

Electric Enduro Mountain Bikes, in our experience - are some of the most rewarding and perfectly balanced electric mountain bikes that you can buy. These bikes have been design to get you further off road than you have ever been before, in the quickest possible time, whilst allowing you to enjoy a wide range of off road terrain, including, thanks to generous specifications and geometry - including enjoying downhill trails and technical descents.

Cube Full Suspension Mountain Bike Guide

At Westbrook Cycles, we stock and supply the complete range of Cube Full Suspension Mountain Bikes, that are available to purchase in-store and online. Each of these full suspension mountain bikes have been designed to fulfil a very specific purpose, whether that’s making cross country progress as quickly as possible, or navigating the most technical descents. In this post, we look briefly at each model range of Cube Full Suspension Mountain bikes, informing you about the range available, and the unique selling points and purpose of each model.

Cube Hardtail Mountain Bike Range Guide

At Westbrook Cycles, we stock and supply a complete range of Cube Hardtail Mountain Bikes - we really feel that Cube understand the position of hardtail mountain bikes. In a world where full suspension mountain bikes dominate, Cube represents everything great about hardtail mountain bikes - they provide a massive range of hardtails, and all of these bikes provide a purist approach to mountain biking that only a hardtail mountain bike can do. This range of bikes covers all riding requirements and budgets, and there’s hardtail mountain bikes for new riders looking to tackle some off road terrain, right across to super lightweight hardtail mountain bikes fit for the world stage.

Mountain Bike Stems - A Closer Look

Mountain Bike Stems are a relatively small component of any mountain bike, however they make a massive impact and play an important role in not only how your bike handles on the trails, but also how comfortable the bike is to ride. Very few other components can make such an impact on how your bike feels. One of the biggest variations in mountain bike stems is the length of the MTB stem. The length of a mountain bike stem is measured from the center of the handlebar clamp, to the center of the steerer tube clamp. This is the distance between where the handlebars attach to where the stem attaches to the steerer tube. This measurement is normally made in MM and is an important factor in how the rider reaches over the handlebars - leading to the comfort and control elements we mentioned earlier.