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Bike Test: Niner Air 9 RDO As their name implies, Niner Bikes is committed to big wheels. An early adopter of the 29er wheel...	Bike Test: Tomac Supermatic 120 Tomac Mountain Bikes —who pride themselves on the fact that they don’t offer road, cyclocross, BM...
Bike Test: Nukeproof Snap Comp In 4-Cross and dual slalom, every second counts. The races are short, the tracks are packed with ...	Bike Test: The Orbea Rallon 30 Racing Heritage Hits The Trail American riders think of Orbea as the brand that Julien Absalon ri...
Shootout: Attack of the Killer B Developed when mountain bikers had one bike for everything from cross-country to dow...	Bike Test: The Trek Rumblefish II It’s A New Beginning In case you haven’t been keeping up with current events, there are no more G...
Bike Test: Specialized Demo 8 II Unleash the Monster The Demo 8 II is Specialized's top downhill race platform. It’s ...	Bike Test: BMC Fourstroke FS01 - Nothing Lost In The Translation The BMC Fourstroke FS01 'Nothing Lost In The Translation' All too often, a mountain bike dreamed ...
Trail Testing: Marin Mount Vision XM6 An Inside Look at What's In the Test Fleet: Marin Mount Vision XM6 The Mount Vision receives a ne...	Bike Test: Intense Tracer Gets a 29er makeover We have had the opportunity to review two versions of Intense’s versatile and all new Tracer trai...
Trail Testing: Ibis Mojo HD 160 An Inside Look at What's In the Test Fleet: The Ibis Mojo HD 160 Good Mojo: The Mojo has always b...	Norco Range SE, A Premium Long-Travel Trail Performer The all-mountain cross-country bike category has seen serious improvements in versatility, making...
Bike Test: GT Karakoram 1.0 A Bike Ready for Many Peaks The GT Karakoram line of 29er aluminum hardtails is named...	Rocky Mountain Altitude 29er SE, Taking The Altitude Even Higher When we tested the 2009 Rocky Mountain 5.5-inch-travel Altitude we said, “If you need lots of tra...
Bike Test: Turner DHR Low-and-Slack Aluminum Rocket Ship Turner has been making the DHR since 2000, and since its incep...	Scott Scale 29 Pro, Low-Price, Low-Weight 29er You don’t need us to tell you that bikes like the $6300 Scott Scale 29 RC cross-country race hard...
Bike Test: Cannondale Jekyll 4 Aluminum The year 2012 marks the second year for the redesigned Cannondale Jekyll trailbike. This bike use...	Trek Fuel EX 9.7, A Speedy Trail Rocket Refuels Trek’s top-of-the-line, 4.7-inch-travel, carbon fiber Fuel EX trailbikes have impressed us with t...
Bike Test: Intense M9 FRO On Any Sunday The Intense M9 FRO Intense’s M series bikes have been at the forefront of downhill ...	Trek Remedy 9.8: An All-Mountain, Cure for the Common Trail It took a few years for all-mountain cross-country bikes to come into their own. Originally, when...
Shootout:The Cannondale Scalpel 29er Carbon 1 vs. the Scott Spark 29 RC Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Two Carbon 29ers Square Off The Cannondale Scalpel 29e...	Turner Sultan: American-Made 29er Built For The Long Haul I t has taken us too long to get a Sultan in here for testing. Introduced in 2007, the 29-inch-wh...
Bike Test: Trail Bike Shootout Shootout: Trailbikes for the rougher side of the mountain. The trailbike category casts a wide ne...	Specialized S-Works Epic 29er, Should Everyone Else Just Stop Trying The Specialized Epic is the world’s most popular cross-country race bike. When we tested the 26-i...
Bike Test: Rocky Mountain Element 950 A 29er Smooth as Maple Syrup Rocky Mountain Element 950 The Element line has long b...	Pivot Mach 5.7, How Adding A .7 Can Double The Value The Mach 5, one of our favorite trailbikes since we tested the first version in 2008, got a compl...
Bike Test: Trek Slash 9 Get Ready to Slash Some Singletrack The Trek Slash 9 Trek has improved their suspension technolog...	Giant’s Anthem 29er 1: Cross-Country Performance Meets Versatility The 29er movement, or should we say revolution, has largely taken over the performance-oriented c...
Bike Test: Niner R.I.P. 9 Your Favorite Trail Just Got Better The Niner R.I.P. 9 Niner specializes in bikes designed around...	Bike Test: Giant Faith 0 2010 Giant had one major goal for every 2010 Maestro suspension bike in their line—make it lighter. Fr...
Bike Test: Pivot Phoenix Pivot founder Chris Cocalis made a name for himself building legendary cross-country race bikes a...	Bike Test: The Foes B29 Big-wheel trailbikes are headlining every mountain bike brand’s 2010 lineup, so it should come as...
Bike Test: Giant XTC Composite 0 The Giant XTC Composite 0 A racing thoroughbred that loves to shred trails Giant, d...	Bike Test: The Cannondale F4 All the excitement in mountain bike design seems to surround 29-inch wheels, ten-cog cassettes, t...
Bike Test: Orbea Alma 29er S30 The Orbea Alma 29er S30 Pride Of Spain Two-time Olympic gold medalist and four-time World Champio...	Bike Test: The Scott Scale RC Scott takes cross-country racing seriously. They offer ten models of their Scale hardtail and nin...
Bike Test: Spot Rocker SS The Spot Rocker SS Taking the Belt to You Single-speeders have carved out a niche for themselves ...	Bike Test: The MSC Hunter RR Founded in 1999, MSC offers a complete lineup of bikes with everything from ultra-light, carbon c...
Bike Test: Niner Jet 9 RDO Niner Jet 9 RDO Carbon here we come Niner has always been a small company willing to swim with th...	Test: Carbon Fiber GT Fury In 2008 at the annual Interbike tradeshow in Las Vegas, there was a buzz among those who cruised ...
Bike Test: Giant Glory 0 The Giant Glory 0 World Championship Performance The Giant Glory downhill race bike was th...	Bike Test: The Felt Virtue Two It has been over two years since a Felt Virtue rolled through our test fleet, and when the Felt V...
Bike Test: GT Zaskar Expert The all-new GT Zaskar 100 takes the place of GT’s Marathon line, but that doesn’t tell the entire...	Test: Trek Fuel EX 9.9 We raved about Trek’s 2009 carbon fiber Fuel EX 9.9 trailbike (MBA, August 2009). The 4.7-inch tr...
Bike Test: Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert Carbon Evo Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert Carbon Evo Blurring The Lines Of Conventional Wisdom Th...	Test: The Titus FTM Carbon The new-in-2009 aluminum Titus FTM (Full Tilt Moto) tested in our July 2009 issue unseated a pere...
Bike Test: BMC Trailfox TF01 Swiss Army Knife BMC’s 2012 Trailfox TF01 We promised to follow up on our preview of the 2012 Tra...	Test: Redline D660 29er Redline only offers two mountain bike models, the MonoCog and D Series. The MonoCog is a single-s...
Bike Test: Airborne Wingman The growing popularity of jump bikes, based more closely on conventional 26-inch-wheeled mountain...	Bike Test: The Motobecane Fly Team 29 Ti XX Motobecane U.S.A . has a reputation for delivering a lot of bike for the bucks. The Fly Team 29 T...
Bike Test: The Ellsworth Evolution 29er If 29-inch wheels had not gained wide acceptance, the concept of one bike that does it all would ...	Bike Test: The Morpheus Oracle World Cup Wandering the new-exhibitor section of the annual Interbike trade show, we discovered a 10x10 boo...
Bike Test: The Pivot Firebird Long-Travel Bird Of Prey: The Pivot Firebird The Firebird is a remarkable bike. No doubt about it...	Bike Test: Tomac Snyper 140 Can it really be only two years since the Tomac brand was reintroduced (for the third time) under...
Bike Test: The Scott Genius LT Long-travel trailbikes have become a popular weapon of choice for riders looking to blur the line...	Test: Specialized Epic Expert Specialized Bicycles produces seven models in their Epic cross-country race line. The top offerin...
Bike Test: The Kona Unit Singlespeed In this day of dual-suspension mountain bikes, with their heavily defended patents, licensing agr...	Bike Test: Norco Fluid One Norco is located in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, north of our border in Canada. Their locati...
Bike Test: The Intense Tracer 2 Jeff Steber and crew are known for building frames their own way. Just about everything on their ...	Test: Trek Fuel EX 9.9 Last year, Trek introduced a totally redesigned trailbike with their 4.7-inch-travel Fuel EX line...
Bike Test: Trek Superfly 100 Elite A Stealth Figh te r on Singletrack: The Trek Superfly 100 Elite Still confusing to some riders, t...

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