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Watch: Mountain Bike Action First Ride: Cannondale Scalpel SE 1 XC Race Bike
The key feature to the Scalpel is Cannondale’s new four-bar...
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Flashback Friday: MBA, January ’91, Canondale’s First Suspension Bike
Cannondale showed us this bike, their first with rear suspension, at the UCI World Championships in 1990. Notice that the bike didn't have front suspension yet, so we can't call it a full-suspension bike. Paul Turner had recently…
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“Ghost Training With a Racing Drone”—Vlad Dascalu in Europe
This Romanian XCO champ has an unusual riding partner
It's likely that Vlad has a hard time finding anybody else who can keep up with him when he's training, since he's one of the fastest mountain bikers in Europe.
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Rear Derailleur Shootout, MBA, November, 1986
They looked a lot different back then
In looking over our second issue of MBA, dated November 1986, we came upon this shootout of five rear derailleurs from almost 35 years ago. The article was written by future MBA editor Richard Cunningham, who was still making a living…
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USA Cycling 2021 Pro Cross-Country Tour Calendar
The ProXCT shakes up in 2021 and kicks off with the familiar Vail Lake on...
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Watch: Shimano’s-In Between The Rounds With Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado
What goes through their minds, what are they doing when the spotlight is dimmed, when...
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Throwback Thursday: Sunset Ride in Simi Valley, January 27, 2017
The end of a late afternoon photo session with the freeway in the distance
MBA's Brandon Castelli rounds one last corner on a rocky trail before heading home. Things were so different back then. This was right around three years before COVID-19 changed the world. Photo by John Ker.
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Watch: Lowering the White Rim Fastest Known Times
The White Rim Trail in Utah’s Canyonlands Is Now The New Proving Ground
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Getting Back to Racing
Even though the racing action this year has been affected so much, it was good...
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UCI Mountain Bike World Championships: Full Results, Including Men’s and Women’s…
Rough day for the top downhill stars
The UCI has posted all the results for this year's World Championships, including the Team Relay, the downhill qualifiers, and all the cross-country and downhill races held this past weekend. Here's the link. https://www.…
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Intense Racing At The Nove Mesto World Cup
The shortest World Cup season in history turned out to be one of the most intense for SCOTT SRAM and an indication of strong form in the ramp-up to the 2020 World Champs.
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UCI World Cup Cross Country Racing Is On
Loana Lecomte and Simon Andreassen excelled on Thursday in Nove Mesto.
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2020 World Cup XC Series Is Now Underway in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic
Elite-level XCO Racing Takes Place Thursday Oct. 1 and Sunday Oct. 4
The first round of the long-delayed 2020 World Cup XC Series is finally underway in Europe and will run through Sunday. The XCC (Short Track) event was held yesterday in wet weather, as can be seen in the Nove Mesto Instagram post shown…
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