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Don’t you just love it when a tool does its task well? Well I do! The Park CRP-2 is one of those tools that just does its job. The CRP-2 is a shop-quality precision tool designed to rapidly and carefully remove the headset crown race from the crown race seat of the fork without any …

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Last fall at Outerbike, the Pivot booth had crazy amounts of traffic and their demo bikes were constantly out on the trail. I didn’t get to ride any of their models during the expo, but they have sent over the Firebird 27.5 for a long term review. Phoenix-based Pivot Cycles designs all of their bikes in …

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I can’t stand the damp, yucky feeling when my clothing begins to soak up water. The bad thing about having water resistant mountain biking gear is that, unlike skiing or snow boarding, MTB gear will more than likely get dirty. After a while, all MTB gear will require some TLC. Most wet weather clothing has …

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With spring officially here, and with polar vortices and record snowfall hopefully behind us, it’s time to spruce up the riding wardrobe with some new mountain bike-specific shorts. While you can easily spend north of $100 (and even more than $200, believe it or not) on high-end shorts, these 5 pairs offer great performance at …

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Fat bikes might just be the biggest advancement in the mountain bike industry in the last decade. Perhaps that’s a bold thing to say, but I can’t think of a single change over the last 10 years that has had a bigger impact on the way we look at mountain biking. No longer does snow …

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