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2012 Avid X0 Trail Brakes Review

By the time you read this, the new 2012 Avid X0 Trail brakes should be hitting your local bike shop. I’ve had the chance to test these shiny new brakes for a few months now, and even managed to vaporize a set of pads in the process. For those who are unfamiliar with the Avid …

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SRAM 10spd X0 Grip Shifters: Locked and Dialed

Grip shifters literally launched SRAM into the bike market back in 1988. As a scrappy start-up, SRAM introduced grip shifters in the road market that year and just six years later the company had sales of $25 million (by 2010, the company would rake in just over half a billion dollars a year). I first …

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Santa Cruz V10 Carbon Downhill MTB: Reviewed

After a good three months of swapping parts around and playing with different settings (and loving every minute of it), I am finally ready to share my final review of the Santa Cruz V10 Carbon downhill bike. Having tried three different rear shocks and playing with both Fox 40 and Boxxer WC forks, I came …

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2012 SRAM X0 DH Group

I always enjoy seeing manufacturers improve their products when they see a need.SRAM recently saw a need in the gravity scene and took the opportunity to improve shifting performance and durability while keeping weights as low as possible. Cranks Truvativ (a SRAM subsidiary) did a great job last year reducing overall drivetrain weight by introducing …

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MTB Review: 2011 Avid X0 Hydraulic Disc Brakes

SRAM has been busy over the last year or two integrating and simplifying product lines across their brands (SRAM, Avid, RockShox and TruVativ) to offer true component group selections for mountain bikes. SRAM helped me set my bike up with the X0 component group this past fall which includes the freshly-designated XO hydraulic disc brakes. …

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