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Long Term Review: Zen TRAIL Frame

As mentioned in my “On Review” article, I’ve always been a big fan of hardtails. I think everyone should have one in their quiver. Riding a hardtail will keep your skills sharp, particularly when it comes to line choice, and from a practical standpoint, they’re easy to maintain. The modern geometry (long, low, and slack) …

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American Classic Wide Lightning Wheelset Review

Carbon wheels tend to garner most of the attention these days, but the vast majority of riders are still rocking aluminum hoops. American Classic is a big proponent of the metal and of wider rims. As I found with the Wide Lightnings, you don’t need carbon to make a wide, light, and stiff wheel. Specs …

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Salsa Pony Rustler 27.5+ Test Ride Review

With the Bucksaw already in Salsa’s lineup, they weren’t afraid of jumping on the full suspension plus-size tire band wagon, and their mid-summer release of the Pony Rustler marked one of the first wave of full suspension 27.5+ rigs to hit the market. Specs The Pony Rustler features a carbon frame, which in Salsa’s plus …

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Test Ride Review: Salsa Cutthroat Carbon Rival 1

Bikepacking is a fast-growing mountain bike discipline that provides the perfect combination of the go-fast mountain biking ethos with the wilderness survival ethos of backpacking. Finally, the bikes are starting to catch up with the riders, with more and more purpose-built bikepacking rigs hitting the market. The Salsa Cutthroat is one such bike. According to …

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Long Term Review: 2016 Commencal Meta AM V4 Race

The Meta AM V4 is Commencal’s bread-and-butter, 150mm rear wheel travel, 27.5″, all-mountain enduro machine. Already a mouthful of a description, I’d also like to add: bloody awesome! And before you think the next 1,479 words are going to be nothing but fluffy praise in a sustaining effort to lube the industry, I’ll cut to …

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