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[Bike Check] Minaar, Hill and Bruni

Rainy day in Andorra. The right time to look closer at some bikes. Greg Minnaar   Sam Hill Loic Bruni

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[First Look] Alutech’s Crowd Designed ICB2.0 Trail Bike

Alutech is a German bike company that likes to do things differently. They designed a trail bike based on a range of opinions from an online community of bikers from Germany and came out with the...

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[Video] Legendary Bikes, Jason McRoy’s Specialized S-Works FSR

Jason McRoy was one of the early 90’s legends in mountain biking from the UK, he was the first UK rider to make it big in the USA, a close friend of Steve Peat and one of the originators of the speed...

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[Bike Check] Kurt Sorge’s Rampage Winning Polygon Collosus

Unless you’ve been living under a rock and ignoring the MTB world, you likely already know that Kurt Sorge just won his second Red Bull Rampage. His first was in 2012. Amidst the highs and lows of the...

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Josh Bender’s Canfield Secret Weapon

While attending the inauguration of the new T9 bikepark in Sacramento, CA, managed by Terry Cox of College Cyclery, we spent some time in his incredible garage, full of vintage bikes. We found a very...

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[Bike Check] Sam Dale’s GT Fury

If you haven’t heard of Sam Dale, that’s because he isn’t the loudest or most brash character on the World Cup DH circuit.  Sam lets his riding do the talking.  A UK legend, Sam has the honor of...

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[Bike Check] Rachel Throop’s GT Force X Carbon

Rachel Throop recently made the move from a brand ambassador to a full time racer aboard GT’s factory enduro team.  She’ll be hitting the big EWS rounds.  Coming off of a leg injury from last year,...

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[Bike Check] Enduro Champion Nicola Casadei’s Santa Cruz Bronson C

Whilst out putting the km’s in the bag testing in Punta Ala, we spent one particularly warm February afternoon riding with and chatting with the 2015 Italian Enduro champion and Santa Cruz sponsored...

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[Bike Check] Valparaiso Winning Bike: Johannes Fischbach

Johannes Fischbach won the Valparaiso Urban Downhill  (full report here) on his Radon Swoop 200, a German Bike. We took a closer look. Happy winner. Well, he didn’t know it yet, because the photos...

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[Bike Check] Morgane Charre’s Bergamont World Cup Downhill Bike

2012 UCI Downhill Women’s World Champion Morgane Charre has been knocking around the trails of Punta Ala recently, doing some pre-season training and testing. We managed to pull her aside to take a...

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[Bike Check] Davide Sottocornola’s Rocky Mountain Altitude

Davide Sottocornola is well known in Italy as one of the top Enduro riders. The first serious international race of the year the Superenduro is taking place in Massa Marittima, Tuscany. Davide showed...

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[Bike Check] Clementz’s Cannondale Jekyll with Sram Eagle 1×12

Directly from the EWS in Chile, Jerome’s Cannondale Jekyll with the brand new SRAM Eagle 1×12 drivetrain. 27.5″, size M, carbon frame. 160mm of rear travel,  Dyad 2 shock. The Eagle X01. RockShox...

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[Bike Check] Devinci Spartan – Damien Oton

While down in South America, we decided to do a quick bike check with French enduro athlete Damian Oton. DevinciSpartan  2016, size Medium . 165mm Travel from the carbon fiber frameRockShox Monarch...

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[Bike Check] Richie Rude’s Yeti SB6C

We just caught up with Richie Rude at the first round of the Enduro World Series.   Richie won last years overall aboard a very similar bike.  Here are the details… Yeti SB6c 2016. Carbon frame with...

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[Bike check] Curtis Keene’s Specialized S-Works Enduro 650b

Today is race day 1 at the Enduro World Series in Chile. Before bringing you all the action, let’s check the bikes of the Specialized team. Let’s start with Curtis Keene. Specialized S-Works Enduro...

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[Bike check] Jared Graves’ Specialized S-Works Enduro 650B

Jared Graves changed team this year, and a bunch of sponsor too. From Shimano to SRAM, from Fox to Rock Shox, this is Jared’s new bike. Specialized S-Works Enduro 650b 2016. Carbon S-Works frame with...

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[BIKE CHECK] Florian Nicolai’s Rocky Mountain Altitude

In our first Bike Check from down south this weekend, we go over the details of the Rocky Mountain Altitude that Florian Nicolai is piloting in the second round of the Enduro World Series in Argentina....

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Fontana riding the new Cannondale Scalpel

Today we spotted Marco Aurelio Fontana doing laps on the Monte Tamaro XC track with a new bike, what probably will be presented as the new Cannondale Scalpel. Full carbon frame for 29″ wheels. Flexing...

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[BIKE CHECK] Commencal AM – Cecile Ravanel

Cecile Ravanel, the fastest female racer in the Enduro World Series shows off her bike before the last day of racing in Argentina . Commencal AM in 27.5″    Aluminum frame with 150mm of travel Full...

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[BIKE CHECK] Nicolas Vouilloz’ Lapierre Spicy

As the winningest downhiller of all time, Nicolas Vouilloz needs no introduction. Here are the details on his Lapierre Spicy team 27.5 .Lapierre Spicy team 27,5″.  Carbon fiber frame with 165 mm of...

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