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April Fools’: Industry Nine Introduces State Of The Art, Cutting Edge, Ground-Breaking Wheel Testing Campus with Optimized, Best In Class, Vertically Stiff, Laterally Compliant, Cloud-Based Data-Acquisition Metric Analytics that Leverages Social Media...

(Asheville, NC) – Industry Nine, an innovative company in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, unveils its new industry leading wheel testing facility and lab. As the Bicycle Industry moves towards increased quantified testing to advance and refine the sport, Industry Nine has taken the lead to push development to the brink of sanity …

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Review: Origin8 Devist-8er Ultralight Fat Bike Tire

I was extremely underwhelmed with the stock tires that came on my Bike Nashbar Big Ol’ Fat Bike, so I emailed Origin8 to see if I could test out some of their new Devist-8er Ultralight tires… and I’m so glad I did! Specs The Devist-8er Ultralight (UL) tires sport a medium-depth, directional knob pattern with …

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Race Report: Rumble at 18 Road (aka the Damp Disaster in the Desert)

I picked a bad time to start racing.  After all, I’m getting a little long in the tooth for this sort of thing.  This August marks my half-century point.  Why would I take up such an activity now? Actually, this wasn’t my first race.  I entered my first race at age 39.  Of course, I …

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North Table Mountain, CO: A Fat Bike Odyssey in Snow and Mud

Annoyed, snot clung to my nose in the howling headwind, and I could do nothing about it. I was too busy trying to keep my balance and muscle up a steep, muddy trail against a bitterly cold 30mph headwind. Man, that wind sucks. My fat 4.0 Dillinger tires struggled to find purchase in the wet …

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Review: 4.8in Fatback Aluminum Fat Bike

Hot on the heels of maddslacker’s long-term review of the 3.5in 3.8in-tired version of Fatback’s aluminum fat bike, I had a chance to take the massive 4.8in version for a spin around the Outerbike test loop. Specs First, and most obviously, this rig sports the biggest fat bike tires you can buy, at 4.8 inches wide. …

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