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Lapierre drops weight and pivots on the updated XR & XRM cross country line

Lapierre is back in the cross country game, and it’s ready to ride for the podium with thoroughly updated XR and XRM models. The updates focus on weight, geometry, and kinematics, taking the third generation of XR to new heights. The Lapierre XR first launched in 2013 as a cross-country race-ready alternative to the Lapierre

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Orange unveil 279 DH Bike – the fastest downhill bike they’ve ever built

Orange Bikes has launched its latest downhill mountain bike in a timely fashion, just days before the 2022 DH World Cup season opener in Lourdes, France. It’s an MX wheel setup, and Orange tells us it’s the fastest bike they’ve built in their 3 decades of downhill racing history. Scotland’s Lachlan Blair will be sending

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All-new NS E-Fine eMTB gets two travel options in affordable aluminium

NS Bikes are fashionably late to the eMTB party, but better late than never, huh? Their hat has well and truly been thrown into the ring with two aluminum models based around the proven geometry and suspension platform of the NS Define enduro bike. Choose from the 160/170mm travel E-Fine 1 or the 150/160mm travel

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Orbea Factory Team colors now available on Oiz & Alma, plus a chance to win a race trip!

Orbea has made it common practice to unveil new graphics for its production bikes each time its Factory Team goes back to the Cape Epic. This year, it heralds the grueling South African stage race by offering its fans new colors: the Factory Team’s mint and black. The current design is pretty recent — the

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Spotted: UK Made Prototype Rideworks Pedal on Privateer 161 at CORE Bike

There is usually some amount of new tech floating about at bike trade-shows; granted, there wasn’t a great deal at this year’s CORE Bike, but we did spot a new flat pedal from Rideworks on Tony Barton’s Privateer 161, on show at the Magura stand. This is the first pedal we’ve seen from the UK

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