Shimano and the Path of MTB Di2
April 25th, 2016 | Components | Comments Off on Shimano and the Path of MTB Di2
The day I landed in the general Sea Otter area was the evening of the press launch announcing two significant upgrades to both XT and SLX. Unfortunately my travel schedule ...
Sea Otter Impressions Day 2
April 22nd, 2016 | 27+ | Comments Off on Sea Otter Impressions Day 2
Just before Sea Otter week, Rocky Mountain bikes announced the Pipeline, a 150/130mm travel, aggressive 27.5+ bike running 2.8" tires. There were a lot of them here for demo through ...
Sea Otter Impressions Day 1
April 21st, 2016 | 27+ | 2 Comments
I was posting up daily photos and comments on our Facebook page, so this is a follow up on what I saw and how the overall show impressed me, what ...
New Whip: The Parts Process
April 11th, 2016 | 27+ | 12 Comments
Since I decided to do a frame up build of a 2015 (non-Boost) Salsa Cycles Horsethief as my all-round MTB ride for this next year or so, I did it ...
Rocky Mountain Bikes shows the new Pipeline
April 11th, 2016 | 27.5+ | 4 Comments
Last year at a press event, I spied a Rocky Mountain employee riding a prototype 27+ FS bike based on a converted Rocky Mountain model. I was sworn to take ...
Ready to go Viral?
Domahidy Designs, as in Steve Domahidy from Niner bikes founding fame, and most recently of the bike brand of the same moniker, is rebranding and tweaking some things with his ...
Fox Introduces the 32 Step Cast XC Fork
April 5th, 2016 | 29er | Comments Off on Fox Introduces the 32 Step Cast XC Fork
Fox unwrapped the latest XC weapon in the front fork wars, the Fox 32 SC. With a possible weight under 3lbs, that is pretty impressive. 29er versions of course, and ...
Specialized Fuse Pro 6 Fattie: The Wrap
April 1st, 2016 | 27.5+ | 6 Comments
We began our long term look at the Specialized Fuse Pro 6 Fattie with this OOB post here and then our First Impressions, then the Midterm here. In this time I ...
