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Issue #018, Trails & Travel, Video -

2 Girls + 3 Regions = Five Days of Fun in South Tyrol

Munich, mid-August. The sun beats down mercilessly into a glass-fronted office block, and the open-plan workplace boasts a suspected 40° C. Air vents? Useless. It’s no cooler outside. As her perspiring, red-faced colleague raises his arms towards the neon-lit ceiling, thereby spreading the acrid smell of sweat around the room once more, there’s only thing on Alexa’s mind: take me back to South Tyrol!

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Issue #018, Review -

The Lab: USWE F3 PRO Hydration Pack Review

We’ve always been fans of USWEs unique strap system and the USWE F4 PRO hydration pack won the highly coveted Design & Innovation Award 2015. Jim Buchanan has been riding/racing from the winter to the summer, and has often opted to choose the smaller USWE F3 PRO pack.

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Issue #018, Review -

The Lab: Race Face Stash Tank Long Term Review

As an ex-mountain guide, Trev Worsey has spent more time than he cares to remember wearing a heavy pack, and now does everything he can to avoid them. Sod’s law dictates that you should never go riding without kit, so Trev was stoked to get hold of a RaceFace Stash Tank to carry the bare essentials.

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Feature, Issue #018, Racing -

Racing an E-MTB: Taming the Electronic Beast

Is this guilt I feel, or am I overwhelmed by smugness? I can’t quite work out my emotions, as I’m doing a thing that goes truly against the grain of my mountain biking philosophy. I ride from race village to the first stage of an enduro race, alone. My only companion is the gentle, quiet hum from the Bosch motor as it powers me up the hill on this tricked-out Haibike Xduro machine.

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Issue #018, Review -

The Lab: Joystick Analog Carbon 35 Handlebar Long Term Review

Jim Buchanan has been running these Joystick Analog Carbon 35 bars for a while now, along with a matching and beautifully machined 50mm Digger stem. The fantastic-looking oversized 35mm bars have served their time well over the past eight months, having done countless rides, many races, and well over 3000 kilometers of tough riding with many a small and the odd big crash included.

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