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Some products we test make themselves conspicuous due to their poor performance, the ones that break or let us down. However there are some products that often go unnoticed, not because they disappoint us, but because they perform so well they give us no cause for concern. One such product is the Mavic Crossmax XL pedal, after over 3000km of hard riding, 4 EWS races and over 100,000m of climbing...

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Since 1935 San Marco has been producing some of the highest quality kit, so we decided to test out one of their newest saddles so you don’t realize your mistake after you invest your hard earned money. Originally featured in Issue #016, so either read on here for this review, or check out hundreds more in the magazine!

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Lightweight, stable and well ventilated – we certainly ask a lot from our mountain biking shoes, and for good reason, performance is crucial. Then if we are being really picky, they should really match the bike in some way. For this year’s long-term test bike, the All-Mountain SCOTT Genius 900 tuned, Manne wasn’t in the market for a classic MTB racing shoe, instead he set his sights on some that...

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Unless you have a pickup or a van, at some point you are going to have to put your bike in the car. This is no problem at the start of the ride, when your bikes clean and sparkling; however it’s a different game when your bikes covered in cow shit and it’s raining. If you regularly drive to a spot to ride your bike, in order to save your sanity and certainly your upholstery you are going to want...

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Scars tell tales, glancing down at our knees or elbows, there’s a graze for each of the trials and tribulations we went through while learning to ride without stabilizers. Pondering on these skin abrasions, we wonder why on all major bike manufacturers websites, there’s always images of children riding independently, and not in the early stages of balance…

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