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Ten bikes, four testers, and… smoke? Welcome to the third CyclingTips Field Test

We kept things close to home this time around, with four testers thrashing a smattering of road and gravel bikes — and even some flat-bar gravel bikes — on our home turf of Boulder, Colorado, to see what works and what doesn’t.

The Marin Gestalt X10 is a mountain biker’s gravel bike. It’s fun and flickable, aware that a bit of instability can be enjoyable, and designed for a rider whose range of terrain is almost wide enough to necessitate flat bars and suspension. That makes it something of a love-it or hate-it bike. It’s not traditional. …

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You know what’s even better than testing one bike at a time? Testing a dozen of them all at once. CyclingTips recently brought 12 of the latest-and-greatest gravel bikes, four test riders, a giant box of control tires to eliminate one key variable, and a support mechanic to the red-dirt paradise of Sedona, Arizona. We …

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Australia’s population may only be small, but its cycling industry punches well above the weight of many other, far more populated, markets. While it’s brands like Giant, Trek, Specialized and Merida that dominate the floor space in many of the 500-or-so bike stores across the country, there’s a small number of online-only players focussed on …

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