The best mountain bike wheels provide a massive improvement over stock wheelsets as they shed weight, up the stiffness game and increase durability, all the while offering noticeable benefits to your bike's handling. If you're looking to make one of the biggest upgrades you can, here's our curation of the best wheels we've tested.

As part of Scotlands six-year plan to become the European leader in mountain biking, the country will host the very first UCI Cycling World Championships consisting of 13 existing world championships. Taking place over two weeks in August 2023, the country aims to have a winner in each event.

Santa Cruz has updated the Tallboy and Juliana for 2020 with both bikes getting the redesigned lower VPP suspension seen on the other bikes in the lineup plus more travel and geometry that they reckon pushes what a modern 29er cross-country bike can be capable of.

YT Industries is on a mission to get their bikes out to the UK audience and have joined forces with cycle to work scheme The Green Commute Initiative (GCI) to offer top-level trail, enduro, jump and e-bikes to commuters (yeah, right) with up to a 47% saving.

SixSixOne has made the minimalist Recon knee pad an incredibly comfortable, cool and secure fitting piece of body armour. The flexible pads are easy to forget about during extended periods of time, making them perfect for day-long rides and multi-day epics.

Designed to be the weapon of choice for Tour Divide competitors as well as cross-country and marathon racers, Pivot's new Les SL features new-school geometry and some seriously lightweight carbon dropouts; it's already claimed a victory at the Leadville 100

The Mountain TT G by Topeak is a brute of a minipump that's designed to fill large volume mountain bike, fat bike and gravel bike tyres with minimal effort. Thanks to the built-in Twin Turbo technology, it delivers air volume in spades.

Known for their brakes that have been ridden to the top of the podium by the likes of Aaron Gwinn, TRP has entered the drivetrain market with the new DH7 shifter and derailleur. Entering a market dominated by Shimano and Sram isn't an easy task so the brand has taken advantage of their Tektro experience to produce this shifting system.

As a material that is a staple part of the brand's line up, Salsa has added three new steel gravel bikes to it's bikepacking focussed lineup. Each bike is intended for a slightly different purpose be it mass ground coverage, serious bike packing or all-road adventuring. 

The Primer has been Intense's staple 29er trail bike but for 2020 the brand has tweaked it with an optimised shock linkage, a 650b option and a new '279' staggered wheel bike into the line. The updated bike also sees in a boost in travel and motor racing-inspired colourways.