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If you want to keep a new bike secret, the last thing you should do it is to give it to Sam Hill to ride in the EWS and World DH Champs. The lack of welds on Sam’s various race bikes was a dead giveaway to sharp eyes in the pits – a Nukeproof Mega 275 Carbon was coming. It was the classified bike that everyone knew about, and now it’s here.

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The thin alpine air burns our lungs as we hike the last punch to the summit, chevroned carbon fibres flickering and dancing in the sunlight. We are riding bikes that started out as a design challenge, built by riders for riders. Now, five years in the waiting, we point our Hope HB.160s towards the valley floor, release the brakes, and plummet into the unknown.

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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. This time, we tested the Backcountry Research Mutherload strap.

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With its bright colours and long, slack geometry the Giant Reign Advanced 1 is crying out for attention! We took the more affordable of the two carbon versions through the most varied bike regions that Europe has to offer. Here you can see how Giant’s evergreen performed.

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