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Rocky Mountain Pipeline 770 MSL Test Ride Review

Jeff checked out the Pipeline at last year’s Sea Otter when the bike was brand new. However, as he mentioned in his review, the trails at the Laguna Seca Raceway are pretty tame. It’s a great place to try out an XC bike, but anything more than 120mm is beyond overkill. Because of this, and …

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Terrene Chunk Plus Tire Review

Given their high turnover rate, ability to boost your bike’s performance at a relatively low cost, and ever-widening wheels, if there’s one thing I won’t hate on, it’s more tire options! And the list doesn’t just end there, as varying tread patterns, casings, compounds, and other tire characteristics would continue to keep us interested, if …

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Introducing the First-Ever Full Suspension 29+ Mountain Bike: The Salsa Deadwood Sus

Salsa has just launched the first-ever full suspension 29+ mountain bike: the Deadwood Sus. We have postulated before that creating a mountain bike with both rear suspension and 29+ wheels would be extremely difficult, but Salsa has decided to break barriers yet again! (Recall their innovation with fat bikes, including the first production full suspension fat bike.) …

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Burley Introduces a Fat Bike Wheel Kit for Cargo, Kid Carriers

Burley has been producing a full line of bike trailers designed for hauling cargo and kids for years now, and this year they’re introducing a wheel kit designed to extend the places those trailers can go. The company’s 16+ Wheel Kit allows Burley owners to swap out the stock wheels on Bee, Honey Bee, Encore, Solo, D’Lite, Rental …

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Convert Your 27.5 Bike to 26+ with Rims and Tires from WTB

Over the past few years many riders have purchased 27.5 bikes, only to have plus-envy once 27.5+ bikes started catching on. Some intrepid 29er owners (including yours truly) found they could convert their bikes to 27.5+ using WTB Scraper rims and Trailblazer tires. In fact, the Scraper/Trailblazer combo was designed with this purpose in mind. Now, WTB is …

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