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Back in my shop days, I had a few lines I’d use on the sales floor. None of them were dishonest, but they were well-practiced. For instance, when breaking down multiple helmet price points, I’d open with something like “This $70 one had to pass all the same safety tests as this $170 one. You Read More

The very first Cannondale Scalpel was scary. Not in a Ford Pinto kind of way. More like an Apollo 11 kind of way. It’s not that it was poorly made. It was just daring and unprecedented. Pushing a full-suspension bike to go that light required some leaps of faith back before carbon and aluminum technology Read More

With few exceptions, bike warranties cover the original owner only. It’s yet another reason why there’s generally a lot of trepidation in the used carbon bike market. It’s already a big transaction to be done with no oversight and no opportunity for redress if things go wrong. But then you add the potential for frame Read More

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Racing in 2020 is cancelled. But that didn't stop us from getting Trek's World-Cup weapon in the hands of our XC expert, Lydia Tanner. No better quarantine than the pain cave.

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The on-bike storage market is still finding its identity. Is the goal to leave your bike’s elegant lines intact by hiding storage inside of it? Or is this a function-over-form affair that will use Velcro, electrical tape, or even saliva to stick your ride essentials to your frame? Pivot believes it should be somewhere inbetween. Read More