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Revel Bikes Introduces the Ranger Aggressive XC Bike

The Revel Ranger is a 115-millimeter rear-travel, 120-millimeter front-travel marathon machine with a linkage built around a long-travel pedigree.

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Cannondale Introduces the New Scalpel and Scalpel SE

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

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Tested: Trek Supercaliber 9.9

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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YT Introduces the Izzo

My, how times have changed. Just a few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for YT to build a short-travel 29er. At the time, the category just didn’t fit with YT’s dark, edgy persona. But that was before bikes like the Evil Following, Transition Smuggler and Banshee Phantom had successfully redefined the genre. Now, Read More

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First Ride: 2020 Kona Hei Hei CR/DL

As XC racing evolves, brands are left with a choice. Keep things traditional or change with the times. Kona's new carbon Hei Hei does a little of both.

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