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The Bontrager XXX Mountain shoes cost $400. Hold that fact in your head for a minute and consider, for example, that the Shimano XC501 shoes cost $170. The XC501s are in a different class to be sure, but they’re not bad. They’ve got a similar XC build, a BOA dial and a Michelin rubber outsole. Read More

You can get a one-gallon DeWalt air compressor for $145. You’re not gonna run an angle grinder with it all day, but it’ll blow the dust out of your cassette like it’s a little piggy’s straw house. That’s the kind of thing you’ll hear from anyone skeptical of the charger-pump concept, which emerged alongside tubeless Read More

Watching Ryan Palmer build up the Bike magazine Dream Builds is like watching art in progress. In fact, anytime I’ve had the opportunity to watch Palmer work I’d be drawn in to his extreme level of detail and cleverness—even though I had worked as a wrench for years, I’d almost always learn a new tip Read More

I’m new to this whole water filter thing. I’m not into thru-hiking or over-landing or any other preposition-hyphen-gerund activity. But I am into traveling light. It takes a special occasion for me to wear a full-sized pack. My local mountain trails are punctuated by deep, wet canyons that tend to flow the entire summer. So, Read More

POC spins to win with its moderately priced Axion helmet.