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Watch: The Derailleur Hanger Alignment Tool is The Most Important Bike Tool You Don’t Have
This video shows how to use a derailleur hanger alignment tool to straighten a bent derailleur hanger.
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Where Mountain Bike Drivetrains Are Going, in 2 Charts
Mountain bikers overwhelmingly prefer single chainring drivetrains. New 12-speed cassettes are quickly gaining traction, while 11-speed cassettes are still the most popular.
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Watch: 5 Shifting Problems You’ll Have, and How to Solve Them
Are you having problems with your shifting? Your rear derailleur isn’t playing ball and nothing but noise happens when you press your shifter? This is the video for you! From limit screws to cable tension, there are so many ways that your derailleur can mess up and result in imperfect shifting. Here are some of the …
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3.4% of Mountain Bikers Own an Internally Geared Drivetrain Bike
As a part of our annual mountain bike gear survey, we asked questions about several fringe but potentially up-and-coming mountain bike technologies to gauge current adoption rates. For example, we found 1.2% of our readers own at least one electric bike and 1.4% are running electronic shifting (like Di2). Yet despite grabbing all the headlines and stirring raucous debate among …
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New e*thirteen Cassette Flies Higher than Eagle
e*thirteen is touting their new TRS Plus cassette that has a range of 511%, which bests SRAM’s Eagle cassettes at 500%. And they manage to do it with 11 gears as opposed to the 12 on SRAM’s latest groups. The TRS+ cassette starts with a tiny 9-tooth cog and goes up to a 46-tooth. These are the …
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