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Watch: Top 5 Mountain Bike Industry Trends in 2017

The MTB Industry changes quickly, but always tends to follow certain trends. Whether it’s an idea for bikes that are built for bigger wheels, longer lower and slacker geometries, brighter paint jobs or the materials used in manufacture…the trends are always there, so here are our Top 5 so far in 2017.

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New Mountain Bikes Lose About 45% of Their Value After Year One

Everyone understands that new cars lose their value quickly, but I was curious to know whether mountain bikes depreciate in the same way. So, I researched sales prices from completed eBay auctions for nearly 100 popular mountain bikes, and also noted bike values on BicycleBluebook.com to double-check my work. Here’s what I found. Mountain Bike Values Tank in Year …

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Watch: “What Is the Greatest Innovation in Mountain Biking in the Last 10 Years?”

The focus of the recent Developing Mountain Biking in Scotland conference was innovation, and what’s next for Scotland. Asking “what’s next for Scotland?” could be the same thing as asking “what’s next for the world?” because as I’ve argued, Scotland may just be one off the most progressive mountain bike destinations in the world. But …

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The 10 Best Apps for Mountain Biking

The smartphone is the single most ubiquitous piece of technology today. These days, everyone from your 80-year-old grandma on down to your 12-year-old nephew is walking around with their head down, tapping away on their iPhone. While some have decried the smartphone as a distraction from real life and the natural world around us, these ever-present …

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Apple Watch and MTB… What If?

I’m taking a quick break from Interbike coverage–without my editor Greg’s consent, I might add–to do some quick speculation about the Apple Watch. The Singletracks team was on its way to Las Vegas when the watch came out. It seemed the world saw the watch, leaned its head back as far as it would go, …

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