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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.

Thanks to a concept borrowed from high-end men's underwear, the BN3TH North Shore Chamois offers comfort where we need it most.

Take a guess when the Cane Creek Double Barrel shock was first introduced. Don’t look it up. Just guess. I’ll give you a couple hints. George W. Bush was still president. And he was still in his first term. Yeah. 2004. Some of you reading this may not have been riding at the time. Hell, Read More

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