My top 11 of 2020
Yes, it’s been a challenging year – but at least we’ve had bikes (and new bike bits) to keep our
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Review: Orange Stage 4 – the lockdown lifesaver
If you’ve seen this blog before you’ll probably already know that I’m quite the fan of burly short-travel 29er mountain
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Review: Starling Murmur custom
Andy is back with another steel FS bike review, this time of his Starling Murmur custom… I’ve had this frame
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Review: Cotic SolarisMAX Mk 2 – A hardtail for all occasions
A few years ago I wrote a review of my previous Cotic Solaris, a lovely steel hardtail which (in my
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Review: Cotic FlareMAX Mk2 – is this the Goldilocks bike?
About a year ago I (Stace) wrote a report from a demo of the Cotic FlareMAX Mk2, and now you
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Review: Orange Stage 6
My initial review of the Orange Stage 6 was written 11 months ago, when I was firmly in the honeymoon
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Orange Stage 4 demo – the flyweight filing cabinet
If you follow this blog, you might have seen that I recently switched to an Orange Stage 6 for my
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Cotic demo day – SolarisMAX and FlareMAX
About a year and a half ago I went on a Cotic demo day on my local trails at Rivington.
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One pivot to rule them all? Orange Stage 6 early review
They say there’s no such thing as a bad bike any more, but then if you’ve had even a cursory
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Review: Sunrace MX8 cassette
A couple of years ago I went fully XD with my MTB cassettes, having been really impressed with the weight,
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