Trek vs Kona Downhill 29er Shoot Out
These bikes are the hardest to justify buying unless…
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These bikes are the hardest to justify buying unless…
Twist a throttle Brah 🤙
Are you afraid of the dark?
1998’s Fasetest Downhill Bikes
The Good Old Days
Avoid those hip pointers
Don’t Leave Home Without Some
2016’s Best Of The Best
The winner of this comparison is in your hands
Is a 27.5-plus bike right for you is the question
Today’s Your Lucky Day! We found 6-Trailbikes at the end of this rainbow
Marzocchi DH-3 and RockShox DH Go Head To Head
GT vs. Schwinn – The Battle Of The Big Guns
If you are looking for every bit of efficiency that you can get from a hardtail…
What’s The Right Size For You?
Protection and comfort, together as one. Elbow pads you’ll forget you’re wearing.
The MBA crew did three shootouts involving bikes with 26, 27.5 and 29-inch wheels in 2011 and 2012, including this one from our July 2012 issue, where we tested three full-suspension bikes from KHS, including all three wheel sizes. The 27.5-inch size won all three of our shootouts, and the mountain bike world hasn’t been the same since. […]
Shootout – Fat-Bike vs. 27.5 Trail Bike
You don’t have to be a genius to make the right decision Ten years ago, Scott unveiled the Genius, its first “Do-it-All” super-lightweight carbon trail bike. Times have changed, and trails have changed, and Scott’s genius line of bikes has evolved to fit the needs of today’s riders. The latest Genius bikes are full-suspension trail […]
Shootouts have always been a popular feature in Mountain Bike Action because everyone likes a good race. And believe us, many of our shootouts are super-tight races. We have gather our bike, product and apparel shootouts from the last few years and put them all in a 100-page Shootout Digital Special. We even included our […]
The most frequently requested shootout is a 26-inch-wheeled bike versus a 29-inch-wheeled bike. The opportunity to do such a shootout presented itself when Cannondale Bicycles graciously supplied us with two mid-priced aluminum hardtails that sell for the same suggested retail of $1069. Why offer two bikes at the exact same price? Because the Cannondale Trail […]
Aside from your hands on the bars, the pedal is the most important interface between you and the bike. While a clipless system and a stiff-soled shoe will offer the most efficient platform, there are some pretty talented riders who swear by platforms?and not just gravity guys. For this shootout, we rounded up some of […]
Last year Mountain Bike Action took three Jamis hardtails and conducted a shootout. The difference? The wheel sizes. There was a 26, 27.5 and a 29er in the mix. You can read the entire shootout by clicking here. Three wheel sizes go knob-to-knob; 26-inch, 27.5-inch and 29-inch. We pick our favorite and give you the […]
What’s the Best Way to Spend 20 Benjamins? Two thousand dollars will buy you many things. It could buy you a junky car, a laptop computer, a thousand cups of coffee, or one very competent trailbike. While the Mountain Bike Action wrecking crew tests our share of $10,000 mountain bikes, spending that type of dough is […]
THULE T2 AND YAKIMA HOLDUP RACKS Rack ’em up We picked two of the most popular hitch-mounted bike racks, both of which are designed to haul bikes without removing wheels or scratching up the paint, and mounted them to two Mountain Bike Action vehicles. Tech features: Both the Thule T2 and Yakima Holdup racks are […]