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Shimano Di2: The Electronic MTB Drivetrain for the 1.4%

Each year we survey thousands of Singletracks readers to uncover various trends in mountain bike purchase decisions. Back in 2015, Singletracks readers selected Shimano’s electric drivetrain, known as Di2, as the most innovative product of the year. So we were curious: how many riders have actually adopted Di2 over the past two years? It turns out, very few. Out of 2,056 …

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Watch: Top 5 Mountain Bike Industry Trends in 2017

The MTB Industry changes quickly, but always tends to follow certain trends. Whether it’s an idea for bikes that are built for bigger wheels, longer lower and slacker geometries, brighter paint jobs or the materials used in manufacture…the trends are always there, so here are our Top 5 so far in 2017.

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Clockable Oval Chainrings from Rotor

Oval chainrings are nothing new in the cycling world. In fact, they aren’t even new to the mountain bike side of the sport. We’ve reviewed several of them here on Singletracks over the past couple years. Rotor, a company from Spain, has a slightly different take on the oval chainring with their Q-Rings. The basic …

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Watch: Aaron Gwin Crashes Twice, Still Finishes Race Run

Aaron Gwin crashes twice, going down hard the second time, and still finishes his race run! Unfortunately, he got disqualified for re-entering the course a little lower down than where he exited after the crash. Men’s Results 1. Alexandre Fayolle 2m52.758s 2. Mark Wallace 2m56.084s 3. Marcelo Gutiérrez 2m56.199s 4. Florent Payet 2m56.556s 5. Connor …

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Watch: The Streak Continues – Rachel Atherton’s Winning Race Run in Lourdes

Rachel Atherton’s UCI World Cup winning streak continues with a dominant first place run in Lourdes, France–almost 2.5 seconds faster than second place Tracey Hannah! Women’s Results 1. Rachel Atherton 3m21.430s 2. Tracey Hannah 3m24.009s 3. Tahnee Seagrave 3m24.165s 4. Myriam Nicole 3m27.786s 5. Manon Carpenter 3m30.021s Men’s Results 1. Alexandre Fayolle 2m52.758s 2. Mark …

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