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. Read More...
Canyon's new cross-country bike has a few tricks up its sleeve.
While it shares its heritage with the race-proven Lux World Cup, the Lux Trail sets itself apart by taking its performance beyond competitive racing. Read More...
When a Ti hardtail is the right tool for the trail
While the Nitrous has enough versatility to basically be a bike quiver on its own, it certainly backs up its claim that it could be the ideal +1 to your quiver. Read More...
Evie has already established herself as one of the best mountain bikers in the world, and since she’s only 25, we expect we’ll be seeing her for many years to come. Read More...
In today’s era of alternative materials (carbon fiber, titanium, magnesium and matrix composites), a lot of people forget that aluminum is the most successful alternative ever used. Read More...
It’s almost laughable that a longtime bike reviewer with an often critical opinion of products has never actually designed or built a bike. Read More...
Boutique-bike-brand performance at a big-box-store price
The question in our minds while staring at that Costco web page was, “Has Intense compromised its integrity as a high-end performance and race-focused brand with these value-driven models?” Read More...
Trek's new cross country race bike has the speed racers dream of.
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. Read More...
The bike brings with it the design heritage of some incredibly fast road machines, and even some of the technology that gives those bikes their race-winning quickness. Read More...
Now in their fourth iteration, the 2022 Spark RC and Spark 900 lines have continued their cross-country heritage on racetracks, blending modern technology and design to suit all levels of riders. Read More...
The SE version of the Scalpel uses the same frame as that ultra-light steed but with a longer-stroke shock and increased fork travel to combine the best attributes of a dedicated cross-country and trail bike into one machine. Read More...
Is downcountry a made-up marketing term or a real thing?
The word “downcountry” suggests these are magically cross-country bikes on the climbs and mini-downhill bikes on the descents, but such bikes simply do not exist. Read More...
When we heard the bike being released would be Pivot’s new flagship XC racer, we thought it may be an answer to the number of soft-tail, flex-pivot-style bikes we’ve seen from other manufacturers as of late. We were wrong. Read More...
Andri Frischknecht, 3 x Cape Epic finisher, stepped up from the backup team to join 2 x Cape Epic Champion Nino Schurter.
Never before have the SCOTT-SRAM team, and riders Nino Schurter and Andri Frischknecht, been so close to glory and yet in the end, so far away. Read More...
Last year, a new American face started showing up on the World Cup podiums—Gwendalyn Gibson, who won the Elite Women’s Short Track at the World Cup race in Snowshoe, West Virginia, last summer. Read More...
Aaron’s 700c wheel/flat-handlebar hybrid had a unique look to it and was just another reminder of how the different categories of off-road riding can come together to create a beautiful bike. Read More...
The all-new Cross-Country collection arrives on the scene with a line-up including the Fourstroke 01, Fourstroke and Fourstroke LT series. Read More...
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