Dirt Mountain Biking

Tests

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• • 2010 YETI DJ Premier Gander

  • November 24th, 2009 @ 11:53 AM | 24

  • It’s no secret that Jared Graves annihilated (well most of the time) the opposition at this year’s world cup four-cross rounds. He simply out gated …

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• • Bike Test: CORSAIR CROWN

  • October 6th, 2009 @ 10:05 AM | 2

  • Bike Test: CORSAIR CROWN
    It’s only a few years since Pablo Montoya and his colleague appeared …

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• • Bike Test: Mythic Banshee Ledgend

  • September 22nd, 2009 @ 11:17 AM | 0

  • Keith Scott has taken over at Banshee as head engineer and had almost the opposite …

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• • Bike Test: KTM Tribute

  • September 22nd, 2009 @ 8:42 AM | 0

  • Bike Test: KTM Tribute

    If paying for a name comes at a price with many brands, …

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• • Bike Test: K-9 The Full Package

  • September 22nd, 2009 @ 8:21 AM | 1

  • Bike Test: K-9 The Full Package
    Of the production bikes that have been featured recently only …

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• • Bike Test: Specialised Big Hit

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 2:45 PM | 1

  • WITH MOST PRODUCTION DOWNHILL BIKES WEIGHING IN ON AVERAGE AT AROUND FOUR GRAND, IS THERE …

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• • Bike Test: All Square – Orange Alpine 160, Specialized SX Trail and Commencal Supreme

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 2:02 PM | 1

  • Bike Test: All Square – Orange Alpine 160, Specialized SX Trail and Commencal Supreme

    THREE WELL–INTENTIONED FREERIDERS – AN AMERICAN, AN ANDORRAN AND A NORTHERNER, ALL …

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• • BIKE TEST: INTENSE M6…

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 12:20 PM | 0

  • BIKE TEST: INTENSE M6…

    Intense. The company, the name and the bikes have a passionate and …

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• • BIKE TEST Sam Blenkinsop’s Yeti 303 and Yeti RDH

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 11:12 AM | 0

  • BIKE TEST Sam Blenkinsop’s Yeti 303 and Yeti RDH

    It is vitally important from the outset …

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• • Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 8:55 AM | 1

  • Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush
    It is possibly by mistake that a bike of such badness …

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• • Bike Test: RAGE DH

  • September 21st, 2009 @ 8:24 AM | 0

  • Bike Test: RAGE DH
    Jones might be completely wrong about the look of this bike. You …

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• • Bike Test: DIRTY BUT CLEAN

  • September 20th, 2009 @ 3:57 PM | 0

  • Words Steve Jones
    Photos Victor Lucas
    This is a typical piece of French artistry, the likes of …

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• • Bike Test: THE WHYTE E120

  • September 20th, 2009 @ 2:29 PM | 0

  • THE WHYTE E120
    This bike teeters on the very edge of the kind of bikes we have in this magazine. Its inclusion is hardly about its …

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• • Fly on the Wall: BIKE TEST

  • September 20th, 2009 @ 1:22 PM | 0

  • For a while it was the free thinkers who ruled. Niche brands roamed the blistered, wrinkled and ripped skin of the earth’s surface on brawny …

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• • Bike Test: 2STAGE ELITE9

  • August 23rd, 2009 @ 10:47 AM | 0

  • Bike Test: 2STAGE ELITE9

    It’s not often that we get the chance to ride a bike …

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• • Gee Atherton’s Commencal Supreme DH

  • January 21st, 2009 @ 2:16 PM | 0

  • A COMPARISON BETWEEN
    GEE ATHERTON’S PRO BIKE
    AND THE PRODUCTION MODEL
    Words Steve Jones Photos Victor Lucas
    The Commencal Supreme DH bike ridden by Gee,
    Dan and Rachel Atherton is …

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• • Fox forks, Talas, Float and Van

  • January 20th, 2009 @ 8:44 AM | 0

  • Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard?
    Fox 36 Forks 2009 by Steve Jones.
    Here we bloody go again. Seems like only yesterday I was trying to make …

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• • Pedal to the metal

  • January 15th, 2009 @ 10:36 AM | 0

  • Here’s three sets of pedals the Dirt crew have been hammering

    Superstar Mag Lite CNC Pedals

    It was only when I picked these …

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• • GT DHi

  • March 28th, 2007 @ 8:19 AM | 0

  • >THE TECH

    RTS, LTS (in all it‘s various guises), LOBO…OK, so each of these bikes may have later turned out …

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• • Marin Quake AL7

  • March 27th, 2007 @ 4:14 PM | 0

  • >THE TECH

    For years Marin cut themselves a furrow in the single pivot field, but over the past few …

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• • Turner RFX

  • March 27th, 2007 @ 4:00 PM | 0

  • >THE TECH

    Before you all start thinking we really have finally gone completely stark raving mad, we do realise …

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• • Group Test – Hardtails 2

  • March 27th, 2007 @ 3:10 PM | 0

  • We’ve probably already harped on enough about how you shouldn’t ever forget the humble hardtail, and all their qualities, so this time we’ll keep …

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• • Group Test – Hardtails

  • March 26th, 2007 @ 2:12 PM | 0

  • I think I’ve died and gone to heaven, I’ve got hardtails coming out of my ears! It’s like I said before, there’s a whole heap …

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• • Yeti 303

  • March 26th, 2007 @ 8:51 AM | 0

  • In the world of downhill I can only think of a few bikes that are both ‘super’ …

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