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Issue #022, Review -

The Lab #022: Parts and Equipment Long Term Review

Our global test team has been pushing products to the very limit on the world’s toughest trails. In The Lab, durability is rewarded and weaknesses have nowhere to hide.

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Issue #022, Review -

The best MTB disc brake you can buy 2016

They say that in life ‘all good things come to those who wait’ – the perfect pint or that perfect sunset. But when you’re charging hard into a corner, roost flying, eyes on stalks and breathing hard, when you pull the brakes you want instant action!

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Issue #022, Trails & Travel -

Traversing Nicaragua on the devil’s highway

630km doesn’t sound like a whole lot. A one-day trip by car? No problem at all. With the bike, however, in the dry season of Nicaragua, with an average temperature of 35 °C, as the only girl among 8 guys, it would prove to be a real challenge.

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Issue #022, Trails & Travel -

A winter in New Zealand: the easy way of life

Daniel and his two mates had pretty loose plans before heading halfway across the globe to New Zealand, a brief itinerary scribbled down on a piece of paper that basically read: buy a van, find NZ’s best trails, tear up the bike park in Queenstown and explore. Now back in Germany, the three of them have that smug look in their eyes of being fresh from the coolest five months of their lives.

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Issue #022, Review -

The best enduro tire: seven combos in comparison

No matter how sick your frame is, how perfectly tuned your suspension, and how powerful the brakes – if your tires are sh*t then it’s all gone to pot before you’ve even set off. This test is the definite answer to your woes: which tires to buy, and which combinations to use.

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