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Issue #030, Review -

Clash of the Titans: Air versus Coil Shock

There has always been a natural order of things: white wine with fish, red wine with meat, and beer with everything. It’s the same with shocks: air for trail and coil for DH… but are times changing?

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Issue #030, Trails & Travel -

Big City Love: MTB pro rider Rob Heran shows us the best places in Munich

Munich, for many, is reduced to Oktoberfest, Lederhosen and beer. But what’s the truth in this bad rep and is it time it got rehashed? We’re told the Isar trails are boring, the residents are snobby, and the city just isn’t as cool as Berlin! We’ve enlisted the help of Pro rider Rob Heran to refute these claims and find out exactly where to go.

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Issue #030, Review -

Pivot Mach 5.5 Review – More Than Just a Gap Filler

Pivot’s portfolio was already bursting at the seams at the beginning of the year; trail and enduro riders were spoilt for choice. Then in May the American brand presented the Pivot Mach 5.5, leaving us with one question: who the hell is going to buy this bike now? We have the answer.

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Issue #030, Trails & Travel -

Tour du Mont Blanc – Trouble in the Church of Open Sky

On the second day it broke us. The exact moment is scorched into my brain. On the steep slopes of the Bovine Pass, after a seemingly endless struggle pushing our laden bikes up the unrideable mountain track, we summited to hope, enjoyed the brief exhilaration of a short ride, then were ultimately defeated as again our clumsy bags forced us to return to pushing – shit. Letting my heavy bike fall to the ground, the truth hit me like a brick: we did not have enough days to make it all the way around the loop to Chamonix… we had already failed.

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Issue #030, Review -

Let’s go Racing! – The 10 fastest enduro bikes in test

Which enduro bike of 2018 is the fastest? In order to answer this question, we held our own race in Finale Ligure with the ten most exciting enduro bikes around. This test reveals why Sam Hill and Jesse Melamed would probably be faster on other bikes and why, if you race to win, you shouldn’t use carbon wheels.

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