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Shimano shows some all-mountain love with new SLX

By Mike Smith ⋅ April 1, 2008 ⋅ One comment

A few years ago, in the heat of the bike industry’s shift from XC weight obsession to mid travel, go anywhere all-mountain bikes, Shimano unveiled a new line of components called Hone. The Hone parts were generally viewed as “Saint Lite”, and tended to be cheaper, a little lighter, and weaker than their full-bore Saint […]

Alphabet soup: the new MRP XCG, FTW!

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 31, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

MRP has announced the release of a new chainguide, the XCG. The XCG is aimed at all-mountain riders who want a bash guard to protect the big ring, but don’t want the extra weight of a big aluminum or polycarbonate dinner plate stuck to the cranks. The XCG mounts directly to the bottom bracket or ISCG […]

Truvativ fires up the hype machine: the Hammerschmidt is coming

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 25, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Truvativ has launched a teaser site for the “Hammerschmidt”. The problem is, being a teaser site, there really is no useful information to help us figure out what exactly Hammerschmidt is, so we’re forced to use our brilliant skills of rampant speculation. Popular opinion, and the prediction that we’re most inclined to agree with, is that […]

Welcome to the lodge, part 2: the Cannondale Moto

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

As a follow-up to yesterday’s look at the new Cannondale Rize comes a look at the big brother living in the lodge: the Moto. The Moto steps into the ring with a burly 160mm of travel and a relatively slack 67.5° head tube angle, which in our eyes push it towards the more aggressive end of […]

Welcome to the lodge, part 1: the Cannondale Rize

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 20, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

If you’ve picked up a bike magazine in the last month, you’ve probably seen one of Cannondale’s teaser ads telling you to check out “the lodge.” But, if you’re anything like me and pointed your browser there right away, you would have been disappointed to find out that all there was at the lodge was […]

Intense launches a new website

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 19, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Intense Cycles makes some of our favourite downhill bikes. In fact, the new M6 excites us in a way that no bike should. So when word comes in that Intense has unveiled a slick new website, it doesn’t take much further prompting to waste the next half hour of the day.
The new site looks great, and […]

Mountain bike fit: solving the saddle position puzzle

By Mike Smith ⋅ March 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s the deal: we’ve all heard about how important bike fit really is. Magazines go on about the ideal riding position, and bike shops boast about their fancy new bike fitting equipment, which often has its own special spot in the corner of the store. Despite this, the extent to which most riders actually undertake […]

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