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BIKE TEST – Yeti SB-66: Enduro, all-mountain or trailblaster?

>> Expectations about the newest all-mountain creation from Yeti, the American cult bike-builders, are high. With good reason! Eventually, after two years of development, the engineers have released their new beast into the wild. Looks-wise, it is cool and appealing. Staged photos and videos leave us wanting more, and it seems very promising – but is the SB-66, with its 152 mm of rear travel, really the do-it-all-bike they say? In the middle of the Ligurian wilderness, we went looking for the right answer.

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The living legend is back on track – Cedric Gracia

“Veni, vidi, vici!” Probably no less famous in the world of mountainbiking than Cesar in our history books, Cedric Gracia (Santa Cruz / Wild Wolf) had reason to celebrate a strong comeback in the final round of the Mondraker Enduro Series in La Fenasosa Bikepark (near Alicante, Spain). Cedric won by an incredible time difference of 59 seconds ahead of Fabien Barel in second place and Jacobo Santana in third. Although he had trained well and was “in good shape” as he said, Cedric’s expectations for the race were pretty down-to-earth: Have fun and finish the race in the Top10.

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An Argentina Adventure by Rocky Mountain – Episode #02 & #03

Episode 3: The Refugio

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An Argentina Adventure by Rocky Mountain – Episode #01

Sitting on the edge of the Andes, Bariloche is famous for its Catedral ski resort, the biggest in South America, and for its notoriously rugged backcountry terrain. After bouncing around various ideas of where we should take this year’s Rocky Mountain adventure, we dug deeper and discovered that Bariloche has a burgeoning mountain bike scene with killer trails and passionate locals. That, and Argentina’s warm sunshine in February sealed the deal.

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The Future of Mountainbiking: SuperEnduro

>> While it was common courtesy to ride cross country as well as downhill at the beginning of mountain biking, a wide gap has formed between those two disciplines in the last couple of years; Caused by a gradual technical specialization, coming along with the development of fashion trends in each discipline. Nowadays, a single glimpse at the bikes is enough to spot the differences: except for two wheels, Cross-country and Downhill bikes have almost nothing in common anymore.

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