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Back in February, a trail runner was impaled by a deliberately-planted spike at Pinnacle Park in Sylva, North Carolina. Now, local lawmakers have introduced a domestic terrorism bill that would qualify spiking a trail as an act of terrorism, according to a report on WLOS.com. Many folks thought I was being facetious when I asked, “Are Trail …

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We’ve reported about trail booby traps many times in the past, and often the argument has arisen in the comments section that spike-based booby traps are likely to be much more dangerous and damaging for hikers or horseback riders than they would be for mountain bikers. This generally-accepted hypothetical argument has unfortunately moved from the realm of …

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If you haven’t heard of ANVL Components before, don’t worry: it’s a relatively-new company started by the guys at Transition Bikes. However, ANVL wasn’t started simply to provide Transition-branded parts for their own bikes; instead, the company was founded because they thought they could make some legit components that everyone would want to ride. At …

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At Interbike last year we wrote a bit about some exciting new gear from Spank. Well not too long ago Spank sent over a couple items for review! The new Spank Spike 777 Evo bar and Spike Race stem both showed up on my doorstep, so needless to say I tossed them on my DH …

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