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How to Replace Cartridge Bearings in Your Front MTB Wheel

If the front hub on your mountain bike feels slow, chunky, gritty, or generally not smooth, it's time to change the bearings. This guide tells you how to replace them.

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Hope’s Homemade HB.211 Carbon Bike

A common question at trade shows is, “What’s the coolest thing you’ve seen?” Often it’s hard to come up with an answer. Not because I haven’t seen anything cool, but rather because I’ve seen so much moderately cool shit that it all runs together into one big blur. That wasn’t to be the case this year, …

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Hope Technology Crankset and Retainer Ring Review

Hope Technology is a company known for their no B.S., made in the UK, machined components. Probably like many of you, my first set of “nice” hubs were from Hope. Those Pro 2 hubs struck a solid balance of weight, durability, and cost. After several years I detonated the rear hub during a particularly expensive …

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Hope Slick Chain Device Review

Along with their crankset, Hope sent over their Slick Chain Device for review. It’s a chain guide intended to be run with a 1x drivetrain. Unfortunately, the Zen TRAIL frame that I used for testing the cranks didn’t have ISCG-05 tabs on it, so I wasn’t able to use it on that bike. My Kona Process does …

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On Review: NOX Composites XCR-29 Carbon Rims

Several years ago carbon fiber scared most mountain bikers, who tended to think carbon was just for road bikes and too light and fragile for beating on it in the woods.  However, advances in design and manufacturing over the last several years have resulted in carbon components that are stronger, stiffer, and more durable than …

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