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While everyone else was building skinnies, hucking cliff drops, practicing bar spins, taking chairlifts, and wearing skinny jeans, Salsa was out in the woods, pedaling raw, rugged trails in the middle of nowhere, carrying a big non-folding Buck knife on the hip, and wearing Carhartts.

Even though this is the longest-travel, biggest-wheeled, highest-speed, most capable Rocky Mountain Altitude to date, it still somehow retains much of its maneuverability and evenhandedness.

Trek was an outlier with the previous Slash when they went all-in on enduro 29. Things have changed, but the Slash stays true to its mission: Slashing.

It was nearly a decade ago that Mondraker helped revolutionize mountain bike design and geometry. Now, the rest of the industry has just about caught up. There’s still work to be done, but while we’re fine tuning geometry, maybe we can zoom out and look at the big picture? In the case of the new Read More

We’ve seen a number of XC hardtails drop lately. Canyon, Orbea, Trek and BMC to name a few. We also saw the other end of the spectrum in the Kona Honzo ESD. None of these are “normal bikes.” In fact, the most high-profile normal hardtail we saw was the Yeti ARC, and it may just Read More