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Bicycles, Bike Types, Mountain Bike, Reviews - September 24, 2019

Review: Starling Swoop, single-pivot slack steel enduro charger straight outa Bristol

The Starling Swoop, is a single-pivot steel frame enduro mountain bike designed and hand built in the UK. Brainchild of aerospace engineer Joe McEwan, we previously visited Joe at his Bristol-based workshop to learn more about his journey from carbon fibre stress researcher to full-time steel frame fabricator; for the workshop tour and interview, click […]

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AASQ #55: Ryder seals up your questions about plugging tubeless tires

Even with the best tires in the world, flats happen. Fortunately, in addition to improvements in tire construction there have also been improvements in repairing or plugging tools. Rather than a patch like you might be used to with a tube, pluggers use a sticky plug, or in this case a Slug, that you push […]

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Spank expands Vibrocore foam damping across gravel, MTB rims, wheels & bars

We’ve seen Spank’s Vibrocore foam tech as far back as 2015 when it first ended up inside their alloy Oozy bikepark bars. A few years later, that green vibration damping foam has made its way into mountain bike bars & rims, and now even more gravel dropbars, rims & complete wheelsets – all promising less […]

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Thomson titanium, from seatposts to gravel & MTB frames, plus matte carbon

Thomson Bike Products, long known for precision US-machined aluminum, ventures more into ti with two production titanium bike frames coming soon for gravel & trail mountain biking, plus a titanium version of their always popular 2-bolt seatpost. They’ve also added plenty of carbon road & mountain bars in recent years, which all now get a […]

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Where to Ride: Mountain Biking in Aberdeenshire, Scotland’s wild and rugged enduro destination

Scotland is a mountain biking paradise, take it from a mountain biker who lives there. It may not have the hour long descents of the French Alps, or the dust of California, but what it lacks in those departments it certainly makes up for in its rights of access to land. A Land Reform Act […]

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Review: Starling Swoop, single-pivot slack steel enduro charger straight outa Bristol

AASQ #55: Ryder seals up your questions about plugging tubeless tires

Spank expands Vibrocore foam damping across gravel, MTB rims, wheels & bars

Thomson titanium, from seatposts to gravel & MTB frames, plus matte carbon

Where to Ride: Mountain Biking in Aberdeenshire, Scotland’s wild and rugged enduro destination

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