Browsing Category MTB
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MTB 2
Review: Kona Process 111
Blimey, it’s nearly a year since I wrote a first ride review of the Kona Process 111 – which you can find here if you’re interested. Reading it ...
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Review: Royal Turbulence shorts 2015
The original Turbulence were my all-time favourite pair of MTB shorts, with heavy duty materials, a great baggy cut and a really useful waterproof panel on the bum. ...
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First ride: Radon Swoop 170
If you haven’t heard of Radon before, it’s a German bike company which sells direct to consumers exclusively through the Bike-discount.de website – with the Swoop 170 being ...
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MTB 0
Review: Kona Process 153
The Kona Process 153 has already become a bit of a modern classic in the two or three years it’s been on the market. Before “long, low and ...
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Transfer talk: 2017 downhill team rumours round-up
With the dust barely settled on a sensational World Champs in Val di Sole, it looks like we could be in for a busy winter of team changes ...
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MTB 1
PMBA Enduro Graythwaite – The enduro that broke me
I toyed with a few subtitles for this report; “The hot and hard one”, “Fifty shades of Graythwaite”, “Can you have too much of a good thing?”. But ...
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PMBA Enduro Series Round 2: Grizedale
With me (Stace) laid low with a virus, there were only two Mackerel and Laphroaig members – Neal and Chris – in attendance as this year’s Hope PMBA ...
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Review: Mavic Crossmax XL wheelset
Mavic is one of those firms which likes to do things its own way. While other wheelmakers are going wider and wider in the rim department, or pushing ...
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Review: Giant Reign 2015
If you’re going to give your bike a grandiose name like “Reign”, you’d better make sure it’s good enough to live up to it. But unfortunately previous iterations ...
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2016 World Cup DH series preview
Is there any finer spectator sport than World Cup-level downhill racing? No, don’t bother answering – it should have been obvious that was a rhetorical question. And after ...
