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Interviews, Mountain Bike - May 7, 2022

Podcast #058 – How Decathlon is making World Cup-ready Rockrider MTBs affordable

Decathlon is a massive sporting goods retailer, equivalent (or larger) than Dick’s Sporting Goods here in the States. Packed with very affordable house brand equipment, it raised a few eyebrows when their Rockrider mountain bikes debuted on the UCI World Cup XC race scene. So we wondered, how are they putting top riders into the

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Orbea Oiz XC bike built MTB race-ready at just 8.85kg / 19.5lb by Brujula weight weenies

The Orbea Oiz cross-country bike is already lightweight, but the weight weenies at Brujula Bike couldn’t resist pushing the carbon XC bike further to a complete bike weight with pedals and a bottle cage under 9kg. Orbea & Brujula admit they put a lot of exotic ultralight carbon components into the final build, but feel

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Velo Orange gets the exclusive on new Equal Mechanical Disc Brakes from Japan

Check this out! Velo Orange is now the sole importer and distributor of Growtac products in the US. Growtac is a Japanese engineering and manufacturing company focused on cycling products. They are making a big ol’ splash in the market with their new Equal mechanical, short-pull disc brake sets. According to Velo Orange, the Equal disc

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Review: Every cyclist should have Pocket Pedals’ slip-on platform pedals

This might be the easiest review I’ve ever had to write: Just go buy a set of Pocket Pedals’ platform adapters, thank me later. Pocket Pedals slip over your road or mountain bike SPD pedals and turn them into grippy platform pedals in about 5 seconds. They work brilliantly, they’re affordable, and they solve a

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Moxie’s New Wicked Girl G-Form Trail Pants have Built-in Knee Pads

We all want to bomb down trails, cross creeks, and drop into features on our bikes with the confidence that our apparel will help, not hinder us. Well, these new women’s specific mountain biking pants look super comfy AND have built-in knee pads to handle the harshest landing–something Moxie says is an industry-first, not just

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Podcast #058 – How Decathlon is making World Cup-ready Rockrider MTBs affordable

Orbea Oiz XC bike built MTB race-ready at just 8.85kg / 19.5lb by Brujula weight weenies

Velo Orange gets the exclusive on new Equal Mechanical Disc Brakes from Japan

Review: Every cyclist should have Pocket Pedals’ slip-on platform pedals

Moxie’s New Wicked Girl G-Form Trail Pants have Built-in Knee Pads

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