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Factory Visit to Canyon: quality, innovation and control

Online shopping is en vogue and it seems like there’s nothing that can evade our clutches on the Internet. From groceries to 3D printers and shoes, mountain bikes are just another of the many products that we drop into our baskets, along with derailleurs, wheels and bar tape, of course. We headed to the cycling world’s leading direct-order company at their home in Germany’s Koblenz for a sneak-peek behind the scenes of Canyon, wondering what happens when we put one of their bikes in our baskets.

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STRAVA vs Instagram: Which rider are you?

How we ride defines us! As cyclists we are united in passion but have become divided in expression. Social media and apps have spread like a virus through our daily lives, Facebook and Instagram used to be a welcome distraction from our office work but have now started to invade our leisure time too. Now, not only do we pack a pump and spare tube, but also our smartphones too. As digital age mountain bikers we have come to a fork in the road? Two choices, two ways to get our thrills, SRAVA vs Instagram, the definition of a modern day duel, which rider are you?

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Renthal Factory Visit: From Motorcycles to Mountain Bikes

It didn’t seem too long ago when we were all surprised and excited to hear the news that UK ‘factory spec’ dirt bike component makers Renthal were to be entering the mountain bike world. That they did, with ex-UK racer Ian Collins at the helm and now they are right up there in the thick of it, at the high end of the MTB product wish list, so we went and paid them a visit.

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Remap Clothing: Unique Cycle Gear from Jersey, the Channel Islands

For quite some time now, our UK Editor has been testing Remap’s lairy looking bib shorts with fantastic results. So during our recent visit over to Jersey in the Channel islands the guys from Remap were our guide for some great days riding. Whilst over on the sunny isle we also sat down with them to find out what exactly makes Remap so different from all the other cycle clothes out on the current market.

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Rocky Mountain – Visiting one of the world’s cult bike brands

Three and a half decades have passed since Grayson Bain, Jacob Heilbron, and Sam Mak founded Rocky Mountain from their garage in North Vancouver. It has since evolved into one of the world’s most admired bike brands, but while on a global scale many things appear to have changed over the past thirty-five years, there’s a still a lot going on that’s just like it was…

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