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Forgive me, for I must confess that I committed a cardinal sin of bike travel. I swapped out a major component on my bike the day before leaving on my trip. Changing cranks used to be a simple process, but it’s now a shit show thanks to our friend, the press fit bottom bracket. After mounting the new cranks …

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My mission at Interbike this year was to demo and photograph as many 27.5+ bikes as possible. It turned out that there were so many new plus-sized that I couldn’t possibly ride all of them, but the 6fattie from Specialized was at the top of my to-do list! Specs I tested the top-tier S-Works StumpJumper …

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The plan was to ride Specialized’s highly-acclaimed Enduro 29er, a bike that changed many minds about what a 29er could do. Well, when we showed up for our appointment with Specialized, the bike was still out on a test ride. Four hours after someone checked it out. Uh oh. Luckily, the crew at Specialized is …

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29er, Bike Reviews, carbon, evo, i:2:9218, Interbike 2014, review, specialized, stumpjumper -

If there’s one model name that’s synonymous mountain biking, it’s the moniker “Stumpjumper.” The Stumpjumper has been around basically as long as mountain bikes have existed, but it has continued to morph and evolve over the years with the changing of mountain bike technology. The new Stumpjumper FSR Expert Evo Carbon 29er embodies some of …

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I’ve ridden a few long-travel 29ers (5+ inches of travel) over the last 12 months and up until now, I haven’t been totally impressed. Not only did the bikes seem to handle clumsily but none of them climbed very well–a big turn off for an XC guy like me. A true trail bike should climb …

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