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How do you celebrate seven victories of Rotor sponsored athletes at the Cape Epic? How about the introduction of your first carbon crankset for mountain bikes? That’s exactly what Rotor is doing with the all new Kapic Carbon, calling it their lightest and stiffest crank ever at just 429g (175 mm, 32t w/o BB). While […]

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The all-new Shimano XT M8100 group ushers in top-level performance borrowed from XTR, but brings the price down considerably and adds more options for trail and enduro bikes. The new SLX M7100 takes the price drop a step further while still offering wide range 12-speed cassettes and most of the same features. For the complete […]

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Surrounding the official presentation, we spent two days ripping around the Bellingham, WA, trails on the all-new Shimano XT M8100 group. Check out our complete tech overview for all the details on that and the new SLX group, and our mega-specs list, weights & pricing comparison post here. In this story I’m reporting on XT’s […]

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