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Home Sweet Home: Rethink Your Local Trails

As the video stream ends, my heart rate is sky high. I’ve just watched riders do the seemingly impossible, smashing up perfectly sculpted berms and getting wild on huge mountainsides. Adrenalin is pumping and I think to myself, “Hell yeah! I want to go and shred some crazy trails!” I snap back to reality as the realisation hits me – my local trails are shit.

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Isabeau Courdurier Interview – Finding the Flow

After a strong 2015 season in which she graced the podium twice and consistently placed in the top five, Isabeau Courdurier is off to pastures new for the 2016 season. Leaving the Rocky Mountain URGE Team, she has taken up a place aboard the SUNN Enduro Team alongside Thomas Lapeyrie and Kilian Bron. With fresh surroundings, a relaxed atmosphere and a custom SUNN KERN to match her needs she is sure to thrive… We paid a visit to Isabeau at home in the South of France to have a chat about the move and the upcoming season.

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What’s in the Camera Bag of our Photographer Christoph Bayer?

If you’ve been to any big race you’re sure to have seen them, racing around, exhausted and never stopping for a break, no not the racers, we are talking about the photographers! In the hunt for that elusive shot, or to capture the feel of an event nobody works harder than the media teams. If you have ever wondered what they are carrying, the ENDURO team of photographers and Videographers will be sharing what’s in their bag, and some useful advice for those who want to get more into MTB media.

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Rockguardz Factory Visit: Carbon Frame Protectors in the Making

Deep in the heart of the UK’s Shropshire hills nestles a small and indiscriminate works unit. Surrounded by other small units, this humble little place has no big signs on the door, the heating is barely existent and there are no corporate works uniforms in sight. But the products they produce are one-offs, we cannot think of anyone in the world producing such a wide range of layered up carbon mudguards and down tube guards; it’s time to look behind the curtain at Rockguardz.

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Photo Epic: Torridon, an Adventure on Scotland’s Wildest Trails

With white knuckles squeezing every last hope of control from the bars, one by one we careened through another huge rock garden, brakes burning and rocks spitting violently. The visceral noise from tyres and discs fell away lost into the sweeping void around us, the bulks of Coire Grannda, Sgorr Ruadh and Beinn Liath Bheag looming silently above. The rocky trail stretched out sinuously to the horizon and beyond, this was mountain biking at its rawest, this was Torridon.

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