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This versatile location makes it accessible to pretty much anybody in Southern California to make a day trip up to the mountains or have a short weekend getaway.
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Not one to rest on its laurels, Trek has introduced a second generation of the Supercaliber with a completely new frame with more travel and evolved features to take on the highest levels of racing.
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They are designed to handle anything from a quick afternoon flow ride to all-day epic pedal missions and everything in between.
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Kona’s Process X platform gained a wide following as a hard-hitting and durable long-travel platform, but there was still a die-hard group who wanted an alloy version with the same capabilities.
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Overall, the balanced feel and simplicity of the La Sal Peak, along with the excellent price point of the Comp Shimano build, make this a hard-hitting and versatile enduro bike that can handle a wide range of trails and terrain.
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From icy chills to T-shirt weather, this extraordinary trip served up all extremes, underscoring the thrilling unpredictability of mountain biking.
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The bike is very stable in all conditions and loves to do nose wheelies around tight switchbacks.
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To tell the story of DVO Suspension, we have to tell the story of its founder.
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“I’ve spent thousands of dollars, watched tons of videos, taken so many classes and broken my collarbone six times trying to learn jumping, and that’s all there is to it?”
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Our feelings about the Gen 6 Slash may be mixed, but the good outweighs the bad, and we were able to get past the inconveniences.
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Although it rolled fast, the braking performance was still excellent and provided consistent and predictable traction when slowing down, particularly on steeper descents.
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When those cold, snowy spring days linger for a little too long up north, or if you have a primary reason beyond riding to visit central Texas, both areas offer a great riding—if not cultural—experience for a day or three.
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Having trained and raced with the two best cross-country riders in history, Lars Forster looks like he’s ready for greatness now.
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If that’s not enough, you can continue beneath the earth, along the Black Hole Trail, through an abandoned mine—an unforgettable adventure!
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This is me, Alex Diehl, in Whistler Bike Park eating dirt after blowing a flat corner.
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"It was not racing, but perhaps just as significant in my life."
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As their most popular bike, Cannondale had some big shoes to fill when redesigning and revising their trail bike, the Habit.
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Before my daughter was born, I already had visions of us two hooting and hollering as we flew down a buff, winding alpine singletrack together.
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For those bikers who seek the pure experience of real wilderness riding, this place is paradise.
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While slated as their enduro race bike, we found that the bike was a much more well-rounded machine and handled the wide variety of terrain we threw at it very well.
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In the last decade, Guerrilla Gravity grew from its humble garage beginnings into a state-of-the-art carbon production facility only to close its doors late this year.
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Those ready to graduate to their first full suspension or young riders who are paying their own way into the passion of the sport should consider the Rift Zone 29” 2.
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The revamped Kovee wheels deliver every bit of performance and technology you’d find in an aftermarket wheel with a higher price tag
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On paper, it’s on par with bikes costing far more, so we were quite curious to see how it stacks up in the eMTB world.
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This cycle tends to continue until, one day, I get the call saying, “I think I’m gonna sell my bike and get something else. What are you liking these days?”
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Starting and running a business is filled with daily challenges. Making the bikes ourselves means that we both control the end-to-end process, and thus everything is ours to solve.” 
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Kyle was only 13 when our magazine first started using him as one of our test riders
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Spot’s latest bike is a second-generation Ryve 115 cross-country bike with a long list of updates that puts it at the forefront of this category’s rapid evolution.
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n this episode of “Appetite for Instruction,” I’m gonna teach you the keys to rolling down rocks, roots, curbs and other types of ledges with no risk of crashing.
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We polled our staff and friends in the bike industry to find out some of their favorite places to ride in the U.S. and Canada.
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