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Review: Vassago OptimusTi Mountain Bike Frame
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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Club Ride New West Cycling Jersey: Ready for Summer
Last summer I volunteered in the merch tent at the New Belgium Fat Tire festival in Atlanta where I was first introduced to the Club Ride New West jersey. Everyone wanted to see and touch this jersey and we quickly sold out of our allotment early in the day, despite the fact that it was …
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Easton Havoc 35 Carbon Bar and Alloy Stem
Not too long ago, Easton spec’d their Havoc Carbon bar at 750mm wide, but with demands from riders and bike manufactures for wider bars, Easton needed to do something. After extensive testing of a longer 31.8mm diameter bar, Easton concluded that in order to achieve their design parameters (weight, length, and stiffness), something drastic had …
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The Grind: Your Mountain Bike is Falling Apart
Mountain biking is a beautiful sport. It’s hard to beat the rush of adrenaline and euphoria felt while bobbing and weaving through the trees on fast singletrack, cleaning a tough technical section of trail, or finally working up the balls to ride that drop you’ve been eyeing for days, weeks, or maybe even longer. Even …
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On Review: Trek Superfly 100 AL Pro Mountain Bike
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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