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Bike Reviews, bucksaw, carbon, Fat Bike, i:2:11552, review, salsa - October 15, 2015

Test Ride Review: Salsa Bucksaw Carbon

After riding the Turner King Khan at Outerbike last year, I instantly became a fan of dual suspension fat bikes. Interestingly, the number of fully-suspended fatties hasn’t really expanded since that time, but a slightly-updated version of the Salsa Bucksaw was announced last November: the Bucksaw Carbon. Essentially, the Bucksaw Carbon maintains the same geometry …

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Norco Launches New and Revamped 27.5 Mountain Bikes

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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Fat Bike, Gear, interbike 2015, interbike2015, News - September 28, 2015

22 Brand-New Fat Bikes for 2015

While all the buzz at Interbike 2015 seemed to be around plus-size bikes, the fat bike trend shows absolutely no signs of stopping, or even slowing its forward momentum. Numerous fat bikes from last year or previous years received minor updates for the 2016 model year, and we also spotted a ton of totally-new fat …

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Test Ride Review: 2016 Scott Big Ed Fat Bike

Scott’s inaugural entry into the fat bike market, the Big Ed, was launched last year. But we hadn’t had a chance to ride it–until now. The Bike The Big Ed features an aluminum frame, 4.8″ tires, and comes kitted out to excel on the trail and in the snow. Ed wears the RockShox Bluto fork …

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Honk honk it’s the Reeb Donkadonk

It’s my unofficial job here at Singletracks to seek out and describe the weird and the wonderful. This is a job I take very seriously. And so, when I saw the Reeb cycles Donkadonk, a fat bike with Gates Carbon Drive mated to a Rohloff hub, I knew I had to turn its cranks. Behold, …

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