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The Element has long been Rocky Mountain’s purpose-built cross country race machine, first appearing in their catalog in 1996. Over the past two decades Rocky has tweaked, updated, and overhauled the Element regularly to keep it relevant — including the most recent 2017 model tested here. It’s more capable than ever thanks to an increase …

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Let’s be honest: it’s pretty hard to screw up a hardtail mountain bike. But producing a quality full suspension mountain bike on a budget is much more difficult to do. While we could include a bunch of dirt-cheap FS bikes on this list, we’re not going to. Instead, we’re only including tried-and-true suspension designs that, while …

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Rocky Mountain has just released a new version of their Altitude trail bike. Rocky is using the term “trail bike” pretty liberally, with the latest Altitude sporting 150mm of rear travel and 160mm up front. Of course, compare that to what they label “enduro”: their Slayer Enduro bike with 160mm rear and 170mm front. If …

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Rocky Mountain announced the new-and-improved version of their venerable Slayer in late 2016. The latest rendition features everything you could want in a modern, aggressive enduro bike: Full-carbon frame Boost spacing Wide tire clearance Slack (and adjustable) geometry Internal cable routing An aggressive component build …and so much more While the sleek frame lines and pleasing …

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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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