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Video: A Road Trip with Rheeder
Brett Rheeder used to be just another kid ripping it up on his backyard slopestyle course. Today he’s full-on freeride royalty. We rode along as he traveled to Trek to pick up his new bike, then on to Ray’s Indoor Park to put it down.
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News: Budget-Friendly Shimano Deore gets XTR-style Bling
03.04.2013
Shimano is famous for trickling down the high-end features from its premier groups on, essentially, an annual basis. Now, it’s time for Deore to get the redesign love.
Exclusive: War of the Wheel Sizes
03.04.2013
Twenty-niners are poised to dominate the mountain bike world and they’re not alone: middle-child 650B is rolling in right behind. Is this the end of the 26-inch wheel? Not quite, but change is coming faster than you might think.
Exclusive: The Heart of Enduro
03.04.2013
Mountain biking is about the experiences you have on and off the bike, the jokes that are shared, friendly races between mates, waking up with sore legs yet wanting to get back on the bike...and getting into situations that you wouldn’t if you stayed at home playing it safe.
Video: Building a Carbon Frame
03.03.2013
This is one of the few out there that really shows the basics of frame building with composites. There's obviously still a lot that's missing and I'm not suggesting that all carbon frames are made the same way (far from it), but it's a good starting point on wrapping your mind around this labor-intensive and utterly unique process.
Video: 12 Months, 12 Stories – Episode 2
03.02.2013
Last month's episode found Jerome Clementz battling the snow. This time around? Not at all. Apparently it's a good time to rail trails in the Canary Islands, which, as the video clearly shows, is home to an insane network of singletrack.
Exclusive: From Enduro to Endurance, SCOTT-3Rox Does it All
03.01.2013
We spent a few days chasing Scott's ostensibly cross-country racers around the kind of steep trails, trails you might not expect an XC team to enjoy, let alone mercilessly shred.
Dirty Words: How I got that shot
03.01.2013
I know this will come as a surprise to many of you, but some people think I’m a bit weird...
News: Mavic Turns it Up a Notch
02.28.2013
We spent two days racing Enduro in France and testing Mavic's expanded line of apparel aimed at trail and enduro riders. Here are our impressions of the gear.
Video Exclusive: Specialized Enduro 29er
02.27.2013
We went into the heart of Specialized Bicycles to find out both how and most importantly, why, the company decided to squeeze those big wheels onto their Enduro model. Welcome to the first installment of our new Blueprint video series: the story of an impressive new product, from the perspective of the people who designed it. Hard questions asked. Interesting answers given.
News: Specialized Enduro 29 Unveiled
02.27.2013
Our test pilot raced the previously top-secret Specialized Enduro 29er in one of Europe's most grueling enduro races. Here's what he thought of the bike and the race.
Video: “The Escape” Teaser
02.26.2013
This video is about bringing you the pleasure of the road and the thrill of the trails. Although the video’s backdrop is the back roads of British Columbia, we want to remind the world that adventure can be found on your own doorstep; you just need to get off the couch and seek it.
News: 10 Cool Things from Frostbike
02.26.2013
Every year, QBP rolls out the red carpet and invites retailers and industry folks to brave the icy climes of Minneapolis and get the low-down on a wide range of new products. This year there was snow, there were fat bikes, there was beer. There were also these ten cool things.
Video: Race Face’s “Off-Season” Edit
02.26.2013
Rather than stage a summer-themed ad and cross their fingers that mother nature would get on board, Race Face embraced the Winter Wonderland that is our backyard....and sent Chubey up Mt. Seymour to hit a massive snow booter for the first time. No pressure.
Exclusive: The Making of a Spoke
02.26.2013
We stopped by Wheelsmith's Mequon, Wisconsin plant and were lucky enough to see some pretty impressive machines in action. Here's how spokes are made, from raw wire to finished product.
Exclusive: 2013 Bible Review – Giant Trance X 29er 0
02.25.2013
Giant’s new 29er is effortlessly capable. In any rider’s hands, challenging terrain seems to disappear under its tires. Our testers, however, found lots of room for debate.
Video: Shaun Palmer, the Miserable Champion
02.24.2013
The movie, The Miserable Champion, makes the case that Shaun Palmer changed everything about competitive mountain biking. If you said that about any other athlete, I'd tell you that you were full of crap, but in this case, yeah, it's true.
News: SRAM Gets All Fat
02.23.2013
at bikes—they’re either the coolest thing on earth or the dumbest trend to ever waddle its way through the back door of the party. The folks at SRAM, however, are clearly erring on the “Yay!" side of the debate, as evidenced by the recent announcement that the company is now offering two new fat-friendly cranksets.
Dirty Words: Zinn There, Haven’t Done That But I’ll Get Around To It Someday
02.22.2013
Alas, my name will never have a cool sound as I ride my bike. Salrooble-salrooble-salrooble is the sound a flat back tire makes as you try to make it home before the whole she-bang peels off the rim.
Video: Kona’s New Hei Hei Supreme and Raijin
02.22.2013
For three days Kona Team rider Spencer Paxson and Kona Grassroots rider Eric Goss took two of the company's 29-inch wheel XC bikes and laid waste to many kilometers of ultra-buff B.C. singletrack.
The Bakery: Must Love Bikes
02.21.2013
While the bike industry may need more signatures over high-fives, we do not need them at a cost to our culture. Our character flaws and dysfunctions are what make our world desirable. We do not follow the formula or fit the cookie cutter mold of the business world...and that's a good thing.
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