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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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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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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First impressions: Transition Smuggler
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I’ve been a big fan of 29ers for a while now, and
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Review: Nukeproof Mega 290
When Nukeproof launched the Mega 290 late in 2015 I remember thinking they’d really turned a corner with their frame
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Review: Cotic Solaris
There was a time I thought I’d always have a steel hardtail. I rode them exclusively for the first 19
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First impressions: Specialized Enduro 29
Ask a group of MTBers to name a few iconic bikes and it’s dead cert that at least one person
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Review: Boardman Pro 29er
Bikes are so expensive these days, eh? Remember when you could get a really good spec hardtail for well under
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