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Having Fun on a Mountain Bike Without Spending a Fortune

How much does it cost to go for a bike ride? If youre like me, you remember tooling around your neighborhood as a kid on a hand-me-down Schwinn, or riding your bike to the park to play ball with your friends, and the answer that pops into your head isNothing! Actually, it never really was …

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How-to: Mountain Bike Cabling

Installing or replacing the cables on your mountain bike can do wonders to improve shifting performance on the trail and you might be surprised just how easy it is to do yourself. This article will focus mainly on derailleur cabling but many of the concepts are transferable to mechanical brakes (disc and V-brakes) for those …

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Santa Cruz Tallboy (Carbon) 29er Mountain Bike Build

After testing six different full suspension 29ers at Interbike last year, I decided it was finally time to get one for myself. I’ve owned several hardtail mountain bikes since 1992, including a 29er, but this would be my first big move into full suspension mountain biking. Turns out it would also be my first carbon …

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2012 DH Build: Trimming and Bleeding MTB Brake Cables

This is the third in a series of how-to articles detailing my 2012 DH bike build, the Santa Cruz V-10. Trimming Brake Hoses I tend to save the brake hoses until last, cutting them after the fittings are set at the correct angle and the exact position of the hose on the frame has been …

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2012 DH Bike Build: Installing the Drivetrain

After installing the fork and headset on my new Santa Cruz V-10 build, it was time to install the drivetrain. I started off by adding a bit of grease to the bottom bracket cups. Following the well-illustrated SRAM guide, I placed the correct spacers for the Truvativ bottom bracket width and used a proper bottom …

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