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Angleset + Carbon Nomad = Sweetness

The Cane Creek Angleset has arrived, and is now in place on the Carbon Nomad. How does it ride? In a word, it’s glorious. Yep- that’s what I said. Installing the Angleset was fairly straight forward, although special care was taken in lining up the top cup with the center of the bike. I started [...]

10.16.2011 Headsets Read the full story →
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Fresh Gear: Rockshox Reverb Seatpost

Like many others that have posted critiques of their adjustable height seat posts, I too have a love/hate relationship with the models I’ve run. However, although mechanical issues have ruined a few rides and seriously pissed me off from time to time, I can’t give up on them. Even with their occasional snafus, they’ve enhanced [...]

09.12.2011 Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon Read the full story →
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Bike Check: Inga’s Kona Paddy Wagon

Sitting in traffic sucks. Of all the aspects of urban living, experiencing the slow jam on a daily basis ranks upon my least favorite. Having to commute to the north bay drove me to the purchase of my first motorcycle a few years ago, and the frowns turned upside down as the throttle twisted. However, it didn’t [...]

07.08.2011 bikes Read the full story →
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Fresh gear: Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon

There are plenty of reviews of the popular Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon posted online.  Riders have taken to the attractive carbon rig all over, whether they’re looking for a long travel trail steed, an aggressive all mountain or light weight freeride rig. So when it came to writing our Johnny-come-lately review, I didn’t feel the need [...]

05.29.2011 Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon Read the full story →
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Reader Question: Fixing RP23 Bottom-out issues

Élio from Portugal writes: I own a Trek Remedy 08 as you, I found that the only bad point is the rear suspension and I’m thinking on buying the new monarch plus rc3, I like to ride hard and last year I went to the mega avalanche and I had to put more air in the [...]

01.12.2011 Gear Read the full story →
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Low budget suspension pivot maintenance: Trek Remedy

Riding wet and muddy trails isn’t the best idea for both trail conditions as well as our gear. Trails can develop ruts and problem areas on the trail can become even worse. It is hard on our gear as well- mud seems to have a way of getting into every nook and cranny of our [...]

12.23.2010 How-to Read the full story →
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Building up the Wolfhound Retrosled 29″ Mountain Cruiser

It has been a while since I’ve spent time on a hardtail. A few buddies and myself put in a number of rides last winter on the NW Oregon coast rolling fully rigid single speeds, and it was a pretty good time. Sandy trails with short climbs and zero bike maintenance equals lots of fun [...]

12.14.2010 Blog Read the full story →
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All Mountain or Long Travel Trail, Part II: the lines are blurring

It is an awesome time to be a mountain biker. I wrote a piece just over a year ago that pondered the question, “do I want a long travel trail bike, or an all mountain bike?” A year later, the lines have blurred even further. For a casual rider, it could mean even more confusion [...]

11.30.2010 All Mountain Read the full story →
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First look at the Black Market Roam

Fans of Black Market bikes were undoubtably stoked when Carter Holland of Black Market showed up at Interbike recently with a new prototype all mountain frame. Taking a few design cues from their first full suspension release, the Killswitch, with a decidedly DH/FR take on the all mountain concept, the new 5.7″ frame will feature a 66º [...]

10.12.2010 bikes Read the full story →
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Bike check with the Santa Cruz Syndicate carbon V10

The Carbon V-10 is no longer cutting edge news, but that doesn’t make them any less desirable. In fact, the new carbon wunderbike is finally available to the masses, and has even been added to the Santa Cruz website. At $3k for the frame only, the baddest on the block doesn’t come cheap, but with [...]

10.01.2010 bikes Read the full story →

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