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Actual Weights, Components, Feature Stories, Mountain Bike, Reviews - July 18, 2019

Review: Tioga’s Edge 22 MTB tire corners like it’s on TWO rails…because it is!

Just looking at the Tioga Edge 22 front-specific MTB tire, I felt like its unique tread pattern should do what Tioga claimed it would – provide excellent cornering traction from initial onset to full lean. I was stoked to put one to the test, and pleased to find that it does grip extremely well in […]

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Unboxed! SRAM Eagle AXS XX1 & XO1 – Actual weights & install notes

At the launch, the Eagle AXS electronic wireless shifting parts were still officially unofficial pre-production samples, so the weights weren’t accurate enough to share. Now that we have our own sets of both the Eagle AXS XX1 and X01 groups in, we threw them on the scale before mounting everything for our first rides on […]

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Actual Weights, Mountain Bike - June 25, 2019

Darimo X2 66g carbon MTB stem follows superlight X4 carbon road stem

At the start of June we got a first look at Darimo’s latest superlight carbon creation, a 74g stem on a 4.9kg road bike. Now we get a look at the even lighter MTB stem that Company owner Damià Rizo teased. Without the limitation of sliding a compact bend road bar through the stem, the […]

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Review: Sweet Protection Dissenter MIPS MTB helmet is lightweight, ventilated & affordable

‘How much is your head worth’ is an easy upselling one-liner for bike shop salespeople, but it’s entirely possible to find a helmet that offers everything you need at a reasonable price. After several weeks of riding in it, I’d say Sweet Protection’s Dissenter MIPS is one of the best values I’ve seen yet. It […]

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Review: Revel Rascal exceeds expectations w/ big hit performance, short travel package

Of all the mountain bikes that I knew would be released this year, the Revel Rascal was one that I was very excited about. As founder Adam Miller put it, creating Revel Bikes was always a long term goal – but the cost and timeline of creating carbon full suspension bikes meant he had to […]

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