Here’s the cover shot from Issue 93 that’s currently dividing office opinion. In the style of Mitchell and Webb we’re asking: what do you reckon?
“It’s always been on my list to try and capture a mountain biking image with lightning in it, but the shot had remained elusive and sketchy at best. A trip to Sol Mountain Lodge, B.C. finally presented that opportunity while we were spending a couple days up there riding some of the newly developed alpine trails they’ve been building over the past few years. After a full day of riding and shooting, a big storm was building around dusk and still a way off in the distance. We set out with tripod and lights and started snapping off shots as the light show and storm grew closer. Once I saw this image with Nash’s bright colours streaked across the frame and multiple lightning strikes in the background, I was more than stoked with how the evening turned out.”
Ryan Creary.
For more on what’s in issue 93, click here.
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I like it 🙂
That’s ace.
As someone who rides in the dark half the year its great to see a shot that isn’t a “dusty trails somewhere hot” stereotype
having said that only noticed the lightning due to the title!
Great shot- will make a fantastic cover! I love a bit of Ad-hoc reckoning too 🙂
Like a lot. But mainly from a photography perspective.
Hi-res for wallpaper download please!
I want that on a big poster/one of them canvas print jobbies.
Thanks.
Actually just read “stoked” therefore I now conclude it’s crap
Amazing photo, but I don’t think I’d put it on the cover.
I also liked it, until I read the photographer was “more than stoked”, now I hate it.
So So
I don’t see any bikes.
Yeah, shame there’s no bike in the picture.
Love it, but no bikes?
My Reckon: Background pic of this is better https://twitter.com/SingletrAction1
Visually spectacular on first glimpse, but once it’s covered in title and contents blurb will look pretty messy IMO
Not a fan of it as a cover shot.
Luurve it and ditto the high res image on a poster tag
Luurve it and ditto the high res image on a poster tag
As a photographer, I love it. However, as a mag reader, it might seem a little abstract, rather than ‘punchy grab your attention’. However, I am a photographer, so I love it!
shades of Genesis … and then there were three…
Love it.
The more I look at it the more I see, great picture. The colours make it stand it out for a cover, good choice.
I think it’s wonderful (but agree the “stoked” is deeply off-putting).
just like all the other magazine cover shots 😉
great picture, but not as a cover shot imo.
ok with me
I’m super duper stoked by it — no honestly its eye catching but please lose the teenage yankee dude/stoked/rad nonsense
wow! What an amazing cover pic. Love it!
It’s very nice but I wouldn’t say it’s Singletrack cover material, sorry
Yes! Do it.
But kcal, ….And Then There Were Three was the beginning of the rot.
I’m in 3 reckons about the photo. 1: I like it, 2: it would make a great wallpaper, 3: but there’s no bike, 4: is it Singletrack?
Brilliant
Look forward to seeing it on the clean subscription cover (without all the messy text all over it).
It makes the subscription copy feel like a quality product.
More like this please.
It’s stunning. No bike in it? Apart from the bloke on the bike! What do you want, a bike six inches from your nose with a sign saying ‘Here’s the bike’ hung on it?
Well done Singletrack for having big enough ones to think beyond the ordinary
go with it chaps ,it’s a great picture.
It’s alright, but would be nice to see the bike too and not some fuzzy out of focus shot of the bike. Much better than the stereotypical bike being pointed down some dusty trail.
Incredible shot, and incredible luck with the conditions. Good work!
covershot
What a brilliant and creative approach to this time of year. I love it and wish I had thought to take something like it. More of the same please.
Great composition, lovely colours, another inspiring front cover. Want to go and ride now.
Funny but I can still tell the bikes a carbon Santa cruz
i suspect the argument from the office doubters is that it won’t jump off the shelf in smiths shouting ‘mountain bike’ like your competitor mags…”sales/profit” etc
but isn’t that we why we read singletrack – because it’s not like all the other mags…?
i say ‘go for it’ – because it’s a great shot and it’s different
besides, i’m sure jorji will half cover it in some splendid typographic attractors for the non-subscriber edition to appease the doubters
It’s a pretty image but where’s the bike?
It would be a brave move as a cover shot. I can ‘see’ the bike and more obviously the rider but, as has been demonstrated above by a number of posters who are presumably already familiar with the mag, the fact that it is a bike isn’t exactly ‘in your face’. With the headline title being ‘Singletrack’ and a cover shot that doen’t include an actual MTB complete with body english rider, it would be brave. Do it, Singletrack is different.
Dark side of the moon.
Decent.
Great – images like this that are a bit different from the usual are one of the things that makes Singletrack stand out from the crowd. More like this please!
Beautiful. Definately use it!
Great shot.
My missus loves it so there you go. Decision made.
Flip a coin…if it comes down heads…run with the picture
If you don’t have a coin…run with the picture
Looks neat
Like it.
Truly outstanding and unique shot. Excellent cover selection.
#like
As a subscriber, I’ll receive the mag no matter what’s on the cover. As a shopper, I’d pick up a different magazine, one with a bike on the cover, preferably in a pretty or interesting location.
great pic – I don’t pick mags for the front cover – its the content that matters – as long as that is in its usual excellent guise no probs with me -stoked or not
Having got my issue through the post today I have to say the cover shot looks awesome. I’m glad you went with it as it’s definitely one of my favourites!
Very pleased about the feedback for this cover- thank you. We had six different cover shots to choose from. All the others had bikes and stunning landscapes on them, one even had a well-known rider on (no, not telling you who!). I was initially against it as my mind is primed to choose a cover which will shift copies in WHSmiths, but am really, really pleased that Jorji took the opportunity to have a good photo just for the sake of good photography. It’s certainly my favourite since Issue 74’s helicopter shot, though we’ve had a few crackers since then. I hope that you enjoy the issue, and remember to download the wallpaper from the MagArchive for your gadgets.;)
It looks like he’s riding with no pants on.
Is it just me that can see a bloke in a red top wearing a neon outlined cowboy hat running towards me, trouserless with his manhood on display?
Check out the detail on the rhs, the little zig zag line goes straight through his heart… poor fella.