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Final Review: Fatback Aluminum Deluxe Fat Bike
At a time when the only fat bikes in the world were some one-off custom models and the fairly-heavy, steel-framed Surly Pugsley, Greg Matyas at Speedway Cycles in Anchorage, Alaska was inspired to create a fat bike with the terrain-conquering characteristics of the Pugsley, but in a package that rides and handles like a regular …
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Review: Truvativ Blackbox Athlete-Series Handlebars
Did you ever want to ride like a pro, using their own gear? In hockey, it happens all the time: you can purchase a player’s own branded stick with his own personal preferences. SRAM’s custom approach to bike components started 20 years ago with the Blackbox Program and the BoXXer forks, as they tuned and …
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“It’s Electric!” — Kreidler Vitality Dice 29er E-Assist Mountain Bike Review
One of the big, over-arching stories from Interbike this year is e-mountain bikes. So, I decided that before I could write an article hating on mountain bikes with electric motors, I had to at least ride one first. Enter the Vitality Dice 29er by Kreidler, a company out of Germany. Specs The Vitality Dice comes …
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Review: Niner Jet 9
The Jet 9 from Niner is a trail-ready 100mm full suspension 29er. Weighing in at one pound more than the carbon-framed Jet 9 RDO, the the aluminum-framed Jet 9 still tips the scales at a respectable ~26lbs with pedals. The four-star build kit (tested) includes a full X0 2×10 drivetrain, X0 brakes, Rock Shox SID …
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Review: Surly Instigator, 26+
The Surly Instigator is Surly’s first bike with a suspension fork. And no, as I already inquired, despite the fact that you see there’s a Fox fork on this bike, it does not mean that Fox is making a suspension fat bike fork. In actual fact, Surly purposely sought out the fork with the widest tire …
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