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Carbon-Fiber for Mountainbike Making

Recently, a fairly revolutionary bike was released that seems to have pushed the use of carbon-fiber in mountainbikes to a level unseen as of yet. This design will surely raise a great number of eyebrows, and give some of us who tend to be cynical luddites ammunition to attack carbon-fiber bikes as being unsafe & overpriced. …

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Google Maps adds terrain

I noticed an interesting new map view on Google Maps when searching for directions the other day: Terrain. Up until now Google Maps has been a pretty bad choice for mapping mountain bike trails since the maps are built around roads and driving. With this new data layer mountain bikers have a much better choice …

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Deer hunting meets mountain biking

Now I’ve heard it all. Apparently hunters in Montana (and I assume other places as well) are ditching ATVs and pickup trucks in favor of mountain bikes in pursuit of the kill. Actually it doesn’t sound like the hunters use bikes to chase their prey but they do use bikes to get out into the …

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Deer hunting meets mountain biking

Now I’ve heard it all. Apparently hunters in Montana (and I assume other places as well) are ditching ATVs and pickup trucks in favor of mountain bikes in pursuit of the kill. Actually it doesn’t sound like the hunters use bikes to chase their prey but they do use bikes to get out into the …

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A Link to Mountainbiking’s Past

Recently unearthed by one of Mountainbiking’s forebears, Charlie Kelly; CK’s Mountainbiking Hubsite is a treasure trove of visual history, interesting anecdotes, and commentary.  And going beyond the typical bike “porn” movies laden with stunts, pounding soundtracks, and not much else, is the movie, “Klunkerz”.  It is available now on DVD at Amazon, and here is the Klunkerz trailer. …

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