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TrueBike adds suspension option, carbon wheels to 36″ alloy mountain bike

If you think your 29er hardtail already has good rollover, the Slovak bike builders behind TrueBike and their 36ers have something to make you rethink even bigger wheels. Showcasing a new frame, new wheels & an adapted DH fork, the new TrueBike prototype moves in a higher performance direction than their other steel bikes for […]

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Advocacy & Industry News, Gravel Bikes, Mountain Bike, Road Bike -

Ocoee is the new name of consumer-direct carbon bikes by Litespeed

Litespeed has rebranded their affordable carbon gravel, all-road & mountain bikes as Ocoee after their debut earlier this spring – yet the bikes themselves haven’t changed. But that didn’t slow down brand sales manager Chris Brown when he rolled the new Ocoee Boundary to the half pint Dirty Kanza 100 miler a couple weekends ago. […]

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WTB Vigilante looms larger with aggressively tough new 29 x 2.8″ MTB tires

If you’re gonna go big, then go big. Assuming you can find the right tires, that is… Until now, options for bigger 29+ mountain bike tires have been few, especially above the 2.6″ width, and double especially with a really aggressive, enduro- and gravity-approved casing. But the new WTB Vigilante 29×2.8 solves all those problems. […]

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Commuter, Cyclocross, Gravel Bikes -

Nicolai Argon CX Pinion drops maintenance, adds belt drive & gearbox

Nicolai is fond of the Pinion gearbox system, and applied it to their Argon CX platform. To this, they added a Gates Carbon Drive system instead of a chain, for a complete low-maintenance package. They say that while it’s very capable for long miles and light trail riding, it’s equally aimed at commuters or those […]

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Feature Stories, Where to Ride -

Where to Ride: How to do a family bikepacking trip, XPDTN3-style

My daughters keep asking me what do I do for a living. Most of the time I tell them I shoot pictures of gravel-bikepacking trips. I get strange faces in return, so I thought let’s go do a trip together so they can experience it for themselves. We live in Spain, so a local trip […]

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