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You may remember the Cannondale Dutchess concept bike, which was designed by Wytze van Mansum a few years ago. That bike was a student project, but after his graduation Wytze was contacted by two entrepreneurs, Gerald van Weel and Jorrit Kreek, and asked to design an updated bakfiets. Wytze points out that what really interested [...]

This year WTB is rolling a well-tested new wheel system for the XC -Trail rider. Perhaps you might recall the TSC tires that we reviewed a month or so back (Mutano and Weirwolf). Well, to complete the system, WTB now offers a wheel set that perfectly matches their tires. WTB’s new TCS (Tubeless Compatible System) [...]

It is hard to believe it is that time of year already, but Eurobike will be kicking off this Friday. If you are in Friedrichshafen over the weekend, you will most likely notice the curved seattube bikes from the Australian company Vuelo Velo (check out the about section of their website for a little background). [...]

Having sampled Gore products before and being very familiar with their high level of fit and finish, I was interested to see how the Countdown shorts compared to the Freeride shorts I reviewed a while back. Since I love my Freeride shorts so much I decided to be sorta tough and nit-picky with my review [...]

The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is officially in the books as racing wrapped up on Windham Mountain in New York’s Catskills on Sunday with the men’s and women’s downhill contests. Reigning U.S. national champ Aaron Gwin earned a spot on the overall World Cup podium in only his second year racing the World [...]

Saturday was a good day for American women as both Willow Koerber and Georgia Gould wrapped up the Mountain Bike World Cup season on the podium, in second and fourth respectively in the final overall standings. The women’s success came during a busy day of racing at New York’s Windham Mountain. The UCI Mountain Bike [...]

I’ve been riding my hardtail cross-country 29er with a 1×9 drivetrain for nearly 2 years now and I love it. The set-up is lightweight, simple, and lower maintenance than a 2-derailleur system yet still offers more gears (8 more to be exact) than a single speed drivetrain. One disadvantage, however, is mine seems to drop [...]

This post would have been timelier last month during the Tour when Cadel Evans and George Hincapie were first riding the new BMC ‘impec’. I planned to post about it at the time, but as so often happens it sort of slipped through the cracks. Though it is not exactly a breaking story at this [...]

Brenda Simril (Motor Mile) and Sue Haywood caked in Georgia red clay and loving it. This past weekend the annual Fool’s Gold 100 took place in the north Georgia mountains near Dahlonega with some of the most extreme weather conditions we’ve heard of in a mountain bike race. A dirty century mountain bike ride is [...]

For the first time since 2005, a UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is being held in the United States. It gets underway this weekend with the top off-road athletes from around the world gathering in Windham, NY for the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup finale. Citizen bicyclists are invited to join in on the action [...]