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Intense Cycles’ Tracer 275C has become the stuff of legends, but sometimes, unless you get up close and personal with a legendary figure, you’ll never know how much of what you’ve heard is fact, and how much is fiction. With the Tracer, despite its legendary status, I found that everything I’d heard fell in the …

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The opening of Outerbike is a frenzied melee, as hundreds of riders who have waited an hour or more in the morning desert sun all sprint to the tent of their choice in hopes of getting the latest, greatest, most hyped, or most desired bike as their first demo.  If you’ve ever been to a …

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Situated just a stone’s throw away from Denver’s Mile High Stadium sits an unassuming shop cranking out some of the best bikes in the business… and chances are most riders have never heard of them: Guerrilla Gravity. After pioneering a largely successful downhill bike with the local Colorado crowd, the GG DH, Guerrilla Gravity (GG) tapped …

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Norco had several new and updated mountain bikes on display at Interbike 2015. New for this year is a 27.5+ hardtail, dubbed the “Torrent 7.” The Torrent 7 is a budget-friendly hardtail, and is Norco’s first-ever “650B Plus trail mountain bike.” We’re referring to this new tire size as 27.5+, but regardless, this bike “is …

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When 27.5+ first hit the scene, I initially thought that the ideal use case would be long-travel trail/enduro bikes. “Why do we need 27.5+ tires on a hardtail?” I asked myself. “Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of having a bike that’s as light and fast as possible?” But after riding the Jamis Dragonslayer 27.5+ hardtail, …

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