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Announced late summer 2015, the Torrent 7 is Norco’s “aggressive” all-mountain hardtail and also happens to be the BC-based bike company’s first crack at the increasingly-popular 27.5+ game. Located within earshot of the ever-so-epic, steep-and-deep trails of the North Shore, you can count on Norco designing their rookie mid-fatty with the capability to handle just about anything you can dig up. While the Torrent’s figures seem to equate fervently …

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In this podcast episode we try to answer the question: How much suspension travel is necessary? We talk about how suspension can affect a bike’s geometry and how to choose the right amount of suspension travel for your bike.

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Phil Atwill: Crushing It from Tom Caldwell on Vimeo. Phil Atwill CRUSHES it on Orange’s “hardcore hardtail,” the Crush.

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Is the BTR Ranger the World's Fastest Hardtail? from BTR Fabrications on Vimeo. Emyr Davies gives the BTR Ranger 650B a hammering around his local trails in North Wales.

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Hardtail Downhill // Take two from Ben Walton on Vimeo. Who says you need full suspension to slay the descents?

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