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Race Report: Georgia Single Speed Championships

The Georgia State Single Speed Championships – the state championships of single speed mountain bicycle racing in the state of Georgia, for mountain bikes with only one speed. Single speed races are very serious. Yeah… it’s not exactly a super serious results-focused event.  It was however, an awesome weekend of bike riding, racing, and fun-having.  I …

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Interbike 2012: Spot Honey Badger Test Ride

New this year to Spot Brand Bicycles is the Honey Badger. Based off of their classic Rocker frame, the new steel-framed Honey Badger features a very similar geometry (that has been slightly tweaked), butthere have beenmany significant upgradesthathelp providesignificant performance improvement. New to the Honey Badger is a taperedheadtubeandacrenelateddowntubegusset integrated directly into the tubing (not …

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Civilian Luddite Mountain Bike Final Review

I’ve spent the last month riding almost exclusively on the Civilian Luddite – a steel framed, rigid forked, single speed 29er. On paper the Luddite looks like a good ride and a great value. I don’t know of any other $1,000-ish bike that comes with name brand rims, BB7 brakes, and a full carbon fiber …

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On Test: Civilian Luddite Singlespeed 29er Mountain Bike

The Luddites were Industrial Revolution era English textile workers who were pissed about being replaced by new machinery that did their jobs faster than they could. Many of them even went postal and destroyed the machines. Today, the word luddite is used to describe people opposed to technology, and it’s the name of Civilian’s rigid …

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How to Convert Your Mountain Bike to a Singlespeed

Hopefully my recent post, One Is Enough, convinced some of you to give singlespeed mountain biking a try. The nice thing about singlespeeding is you may be able to do it for cheap by converting a bike you already own for less than $30! You could spend a lot more, but the basic conversion will …

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