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Chipps Chippendale
Chipps Chippendale (real name William Henry James Chippendale III) is a mountain biking journalist in the UK. After a stint as a bicycle messenger his journalistic career started in 1994 with UK magazine MTB Pro which he worked on for five years. After the magazine was closed down by its publishers, Future Publishing, who said that there was not enough interest in a magazine about the 'soul' of mountain biking, he left the company and went freelance, contributing to Mountain Biking UK, Total Bike, Maximum Mountain Bike and others. He also wrote for Clarks Originals, for whom he authored a book about 50 Years of the (Clarks) Desert Boot.
In early 2000 he started working for 9feet.com, a startup website based on the 'online shop with editorial content' model, specialising in outdoor gear. He worked there for nearly a year until meeting Mark Alker and Shaun Murray, then of www.gofar-mtb.com, a privately run mountain bike website. They suggested he join them and start making a print magazine.
He is the founding editor of Singletrack Magazine, a publication he created with Mark Alker and Shaun Murray in 2001.
He is generally credited with popularising singlespeed mountain biking in the UK[citation needed] - an idea he claims to have stolen from Bike magazine editor Mike Ferrentino - and is a collaborator in The Outcast, an underground singlespeed fanzine.
These days, he is still the editor of Singletrack Magazine still regularly writes and photographs for it.
External links
Dirt Rag interview with Chipps Chippendale
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