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Dialled Rides: Tuning tips from the pros: Greg Callaghan

Welcome to Part 5 of our weekly feature, Dialled Rides, where we expose the mysteries of bike setup and reveal secrets from those at the pinnacle of the sport!! Check out part 1, 2, 3 and 4 where we talked with Jerome Clementz, Jared Graves the Dudes of Hazzard and Jamie Nicoll.

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Review: Is Schwalbes Magic Mary the perfect tire for the autumn?

As the successor to the classic Muddy Mary, Schwalbe praises the new Magic Mary as a versatile all-round tire with excellent grip in muddy soils. Sounds like the perfect tire for the wet season? – We challenged them to a test!

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Dialled Rides: Tuning tips from the pros: Jamie Nicoll

Welcome to Part 4 of our weekly feature, Dialled Rides, where we expose the mysteries of bike setup and reveal secrets from those at the pinnacle of the sport!!  Check out part 1, 2 and 3 where we talked with the current Enduro World Series Champion, Jerome Clementz the Aussie powerhouse Jared Graves! and Scotland’s Dudes of Hazzard

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First Ride: Orbea Rallon 2014 Enduro Race Bike

Let’s be honest: If Orbea is known for anything then it’s for road cycling and XC-racing. This added to our curiosity when Orbea invited us to Finale Ligure to make our first hands-on test of their new enduro race bike. Would their new Rallon be able to convince on the trail?

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Santa Cruz Bikes: A Tallboy Triple Test

Some brands in the MTB world just seem to carry themselves through the world of marketing, purely on the strength of their names, Santa Cruz is definitely in amongst this elite group of high-end products! Take the Bronson, just the mere mention of it’s name got the masses babbling with excitement prior to it’s release, with pre-orders in the dealers seeming more popular than a prison whore! I tend to stay away from these big name brands, favouring the smaller quirky stuff, just to be different, not to be (dare I say it) a sheep following the masses. But lets face it there’s no smoke without fire, so they ain’t going to be crap, but could the Tallboy LT really be as good as people say, I mean Donny’s has taken him to victory more than once in the UKGE, up against all manner of other bikes.

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