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RockyMounts TomaHawk Roof Rack Review

Despite the convenience of a pickup and the growing popularity of car hitch mounts, I would guess the roof rack remains the most popular bike-hauling solution. Roof racks offer a convenience of their own and a lower cost of entry. While they’re relatively simple, there are many ways to go about designing a roof-mounted rack, with …

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Strava Wants To Be the Home of Your Entire Athletic Life

Strava has just announced the addition of new types of content onto their platform, including “stories, photos, questions, gear tips, race reports, recommendations, workouts – all kinds of content in addition to activity uploads,” according to their release. For now, though, these new types of content will only be available to 36 professional athletes, with …

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Clockable Oval Chainrings from Rotor

Oval chainrings are nothing new in the cycling world. In fact, they aren’t even new to the mountain bike side of the sport. We’ve reviewed several of them here on Singletracks over the past couple years. Rotor, a company from Spain, has a slightly different take on the oval chainring with their Q-Rings. The basic …

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“Can I Ride X Type of Bike on Y Trail?” Yes! Yes, you can.

Any opinions expressed in this article are Jeff’s personal opinions, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Singletracks.com. There’s a feature on Singletracks that allows registered users to post questions about individual mountain bike trails, and our readers have the opportunity to answer those questions to help a brother (or sister) out. It’s great seeing how helpful our …

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In Appreciation of the Non-Riding Spouse

We hardcore mountain bikers are a rare breed. Sure, there seems to be a lot of us when we show up at a busy trailhead on a weekend, but relative to the overall population, we are but a drop in the bucket. What’s more, we don’t always gravitate toward each other–romantically speaking, that is. Wouldn’t …

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