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Just a few weeks back, Norco was nice enough to send over a big bike box. Low and behold, inside that wondrous package of reinforced cardboard was a bike with one of the sexiest paint jobs on the planet: the Norco Aurum 1! I wasn’t sure if Norco was sending over the BoXXer or the …

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What does it take to adequately review a bike? Some people think a quick leg-over-the-top and a spin around a parking lot is enough to get a feel for a bike. Others take it out for a short spin on the singletrack, logging five miles or so, and then they think they know a bike. …

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The Raleigh XXIX+G is a steel hardtail 29er that sports classic styling with a real disposition toward modern technology and real performance. While it’s available as a singlespeed or with a 3×10 drivetrain, I chose to test the 3×10—Raliegh calls this version the +G. A couple months ago I wrote about the Raleigh XXIX+G’s specs …

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Vassago only builds big-wheeled bikes, and is best known for their steel single speed frame, the Jabberwocky.  I have been riding one for over three years now, and really like it, so I was sad to see the company go through a rough patch a while back.  But recently Vassago was bought by some former …

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I’ve been shopping around for a good bike to race the Cohutta 100 on. At first, I was hoping to find a carbon hardtail 29er to use for my race bike, but based on Jeff’s recommendation, I also threw some short-travel 29er FS XC rigs into the mix. When the opportunity came to do a …

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