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Pro Bike Check: Gary Forrest’s Ibis Mojo HD3 Team Issue

With New Years celebrations still fresh in our minds (and on the old waist line) it may seem a little early to be starting EWS bike checks, but with such an exciting season ahead and so many new teams, it seemed like a good time to begin checking out this years fastest bikes. First up we have the latest evolution from Ibis, the Mojo HD3.

‘Don’t call it a comeback’ as the well loved Ibis HD and...

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Oktoberfest: The Morning After

I wake up with scratched hands, heavy legs and a booming head. Completely disorientated I reach for my phone and read, “Wow, you went for it last night! I’ll be laughing at the photos for a while!” What in heavens name happened yesterday? We wanted to meet up and exchange long-term test notes and have a cosy end-of-season session. But then cosy is not really our thing…..

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Pro Bike Check: Manuel Fumic’s Jekyll 27.5 Carbon Team

Exceptional athlete and style-icon: Manuel Fumic isn’t just one of the fastest XC riders on the planet he is also the most stylish XC pilot. The multiple German champion and Cannondale Factory Team rider set himself against the world’s elite enduro riders at the Finale EWS round. On the one hand modern XC race courses are becoming increasingly technical whilst on the other the 2014 Enduro World Series were a succession of superlatives in terms of the fitness required. No wonder that the elite cross country riders see them as a challenge. For his venture in expanding his horizons Fumic chose to use the bike from his team colleague and 2013 EWS champion Jerome Clementz: here you find out about his Cannondale Jekyll.

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Pro Bike Check: Manuel Fumic’s Jekyll 27.5 Carbon Team

Exceptional athlete and style-icon: Manuel Fumic isn’t just one of the fastest XC riders on the planet he is also the most stylish XC pilot. The multiple German champion and Cannondale Factory Team rider set himself against the world’s elite enduro riders at the Finale EWS round. On the one hand modern XC race courses are becoming increasingly technical whilst on the other the 2014 Enduro World Series were a succession of superlatives in terms of the fitness required. No wonder that the elite cross country riders see them as a challenge. For his venture in expanding his horizons Fumic chose to use the bike from his team colleague and 2013 EWS champion Jerome Clementz: here you find out about his Cannondale Jekyll.

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Pro Bike Check: Klausmann’s GHOST Path prototype

He’s not the first successful downhill rider to change discipline. But the 15 times German downhill champion stayed true to his downhill roots until now and you rarely saw him at enduro races. That’s set to change from 2016. Markus will continue to focus exclusively on downhill racing for the 2015 season but after that will shift toward enduro and adapt his training program accordingly. High time then to start preparing for the switch and develop an appropriate workhorse fitting to the high expectations of the seasoned DH racer. The last round of the Enduro World Series was a perfect chance to test the new Ghost Path on hard racecourses. Here’s an overview of the 150mm prototype enduro race machine.

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