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Gear Review: Club Ride Days2 Mountain Bike Shorts

by michael frank on April 27, 2012 · 2 comments

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Among the best we’ve ever used.

Fresh Goods: Shimano Zee DH Bike Components

by michael frank on April 20, 2012 · 0 comments

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Even if you don’t downhill, you’ll find something to like in Shimano’s new component group.

Under the Banner of One Mountain Bike Stoke

by michael frank on April 19, 2012 · 5 comments

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This is a trailer for a film about mountain biking that makes it debuts in a few days at Sea Otter. It’s maybe a little self-congratulatory, and were I to be especially cynical about it, I might say it looks like yet another huck film, with plenty of pros sending terrain and airs that most [...]

Links We Like, April 13, 2012

by michael frank on April 13, 2012 · 0 comments

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UPSCALE FASHION LABEL PAUL SMITH has opened a bike boutique within luxury department store Harrods. The London store’s fifth floor sports department has a nook devoted to the designer, a retail experience where you can thumb through vintage cycling magazines and browse custom bikes, with niche brands Condor, Brompton, Mercian, and Paris exhibiting wares. Coolest [...]

In New Zealand They Call You “Mate,” Then Kick You in the Teeth

by michael frank on April 12, 2012 · 8 comments

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It’s probably just that the guy in the Rock Shox jersey is embarrassed about his sartorial choices. He’s squeezed himself into a shirt that makes him look like an overstuffed bumble bee, and the black Lycra shorts aren’t doing him any favors, either. The roadie fingerless gloves and Timex — not to mention bar ends [...]

Fresh Goods: Santa Cruz Tallboy LTc 29-Inch Mountain Bike

by michael frank on April 2, 2012 · 0 comments

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If you’re a Santa Cruz fanboy/girl then right about now we’d recommend lifting your chin off the floor and getting a mop for all that drool. Because as we could’ve predicted ever since riding the stupidly great original Tallboy, SCB wasn’t going to rest with a mere four-inch-travel 29er crowning its big-wheel fleet. Yeah, you [...]

Gear Review: Michelin Wild Rock’R Mountain Bike Tire

by michael frank on March 12, 2012 · 2 comments

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Michelin makes some of the best tires in the world. They should since they dominate the market, whether car or bike tires. But for bikes, it’s only been true for road. Off-road, Michelin seemed to stop caring a long time ago, and for the last decade it’s been tough to find anyone hungry to ride [...]

The Daily Bike, March 7, 2012

Of all the logos we’ve had on our bikes, of all the brand names we’ve had on our steeds, of all the symbols we’ve worn on jerseys, none have earned us more props and support than this simple, little (and cheeky) sign. It was given to us and the other solo, singlespeed riders in the [...]

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Fresh Goods: Crank Brothers Kronolog Seatpost

When the pucker factor of a steep singletrack chute tells your brain to put on the brakes it’s amazing how much safer you’ll feel and be by dropping your saddle to lower your center of gravity. And that’s why dropper posts were invented…it’s just that many of them don’t work very well. In theory, they [...]

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The Daily Bike, March 5, 2012

Joseph Ahearne’s latest creation is a crazy-cool snow bike, the kind of machine that’s clearly not about sales or chasing a market, but a build that happens because of plain old desire. Which is fitting for Ahearne. Yes, he made this moon-lander rig for the just-ended North American Handmade Bicycle Show, where so many rig [...]

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Fresh Goods: Shimano Road and Cross Disk Brakes and a Whole Lot More

Shimano is the Swiss watchmaker of the cycling world. Its stuff works so well that you forget to think about it. It doesn’t, however, inspire passion a la Campy, nor is it generally considered sexy but I’d argue that Shimano’s 2013 SLX innovations are sexy, and on a budget no less — the cheap-date equivalents of [...]

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Singletrack on Steroids: 10,800 Feet of Pure Descent

At just 400 feet of vertical shy of an entire Mt. Hood, one of the most enticing singletrack descents in the world drops 10,800 feet from the top of the Plaine Morte (Plains of Death) in the Valais Alps all the way to the foot of Mont Blanc. The “morte” part may not be literal, [...]

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Fresh Goods: Santa Cruz Superlight 29 Mountain Bike

One of the first full-suspension bikes that actually worked was the Santa Cruz Superlight. It made its debut more than a decade ago, back when Santa Cruz was one of the first brands to solve the problem of double squishy bike inchworming along the trail, robbing the rider of power. Since then, however, Santa Cruz [...]

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Big Air on a Borrowed Bike and a Bum Femur Nabs $5000

Chad Kagy doesn’t even own a mountain bike, but last weekend at the Teva Mountain Games he won the best trick competition. Mind you, he does own a BMX bike, but 20-inchers and 26-inch-wheeled bikes aren’t the same thing, especially not when you’re trying to manhandle a bike in mid-air. And it can’t have made [...]

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The Daily Bike, February 13, 2012

Heidi Davis is a founding member of the New England Mountain Bike Association and was also a Fat Chance team rider during the late 80s and early 90s. Heidi’s custom Yo Eddy was recently and briefly for sale on the floor of Boston’s Superb Bicycle. NEMBA holds an important role within the mountain bike scene: [...]

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