Mountain Biking UK is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 mountain biking

Mountain biking

Mountain biking is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially adapted mountain bikes. Mountain bikes share similarities with other bikes, but incorporate features designed to enhance durability and performance in rough terrain.Mountain biking can...

 magazine. It is published by Future Publishing

Future Publishing

Future plc is a media company; in 2006, it was the sixth-largest in the United Kingdom. It publishes more than 150 magazines in fields such as video games, technology, automotive, cycling, films and photography. Future is the official magazine company of all three major games console manufacturers...

 and is currently the UK's best-selling mountain bike magazine, with a circulation of 45,000 (ABC: Jan - Dec 2005) and an estimated readership of over 120,000. MBUK was established in 1988 by Tym Manley who remained editor at large until 2009. There are currently 26 issues a year, and the magazine has a policy of including 'covermount' gifts such as stickers and DVDs.

MBUK covers all mountain biking disciplines; trials, downhill, cross-country, dog dirt jumping, free-riding and 4X. Future Publishing's readership demographics research has indicated the magazine's readership to be 23% male, with an average age of 24.5 and an average income of £89.000.

Since 1989 MBUK has carried the ovine-based cartoon strip, 'Mint Sauce

Mint Sauce (cartoon strip)

Mint Sauce is a fictional character in a cartoon strip of the same name, created and drawn by Jo Burt, and published in the monthly magazine Mountain Biking UK.Mishun H...

', the tales of a mountain-biking sheep and his friends.

In May 2006 MBUK released its 950th edition. To mark the occasion, Cedric Gracia

Cedric Gracia

Cédric Gracia is a French mountain biker.Cédric Gracia is a French mountain biker who now lives in Andorra. He started his career as an athlete at 6 years old as a BMX rider and then a freestyle ski pro. Cedric Gracia, years later, became a mountain bike rider...

 (leading French downhill and 4X racer) was guest editor. In May 2008 MBUK released their 20th anniversary issue, issue #225. It came with 8 free gifts and a fold out front cover of Steve Peat.

Team MBUK

The magazine along with co-sponsors such as Nike

Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

, Santa Cruz and Fox Racing Inc. has operated a successful professional mountain bike team since the mid 1990s including riders of the calibre of Steve Peat

Steve Peat

Steve Peat , nicknamed "Sheffield Steel" or more commonly just plain "Peaty", is a professional downhill mountain biker who was born and lives in Chapeltown, Sheffield, England. Prior to his career as a professional downhill cyclist Peat was employed as a plumber by James Lamb...

, Marc Beaumont, Rob Warner

Rob Warner (mountain biker)

Rob Warner is a retired professional downhill mountain biker born in Reading, England.Before turning professional in 1993 Warner worked for 6 months at the Rover plant in Oxford on a production line building the Rover 800 series car...

 and Will Longden and competing in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.