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Interviews

Ian Luff Interview | Endtroducing

With Ian Luff, each task is performed as enthusiastically as the last one, and is always carried out with a smile. Anyway, here’s his endtroducing...

Ian Luff Interview | Endtroducing
Apparel

Billy's Kit | Hammered

Billy’s Kit Billy is our online editor. He wear loads of different fashionable items, but some of these things he wears more than others. Raceface DH ¾ shorts I...

Billy's Kit | Hammered
Wheels and Tyres

Bontager, Mavic & Shimano Wheels | Hammered

Bontrager Race Lite Tubeless Wheelset Had a bit of a shoe–in this pair. These wheels needed to go in because having come as stock on a...

Bontager, Mavic & Shimano Wheels | Hammered
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Shimano XT 15mm XC Wheels | Fresh Produce

These Shimano XT rims are both a bit narrower and lighter than the AM ones, but they still feel like they’ll be up for a...

Shimano XT 15mm XC Wheels | Fresh Produce
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Token 1.5" Reducer Headset | Fresh Produce

Finding a sensibly priced/decent quality 1.5” to 1 1/8” reducer headset was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, but we’ve finally...

Token 1.5" Reducer Headset | Fresh Produce
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Funn Combat Grips | Fresh Produce

As used by a certain Mr Hill, and if this Monster green colour isn’t quite to your taste then there’s also more subtle versions of...

Funn Combat Grips | Fresh Produce
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Light & Motion Seca 700 Race Lights | Fresh Produce

Anyway, the good news is that these Seca 700 race lights were worth the wait...

Light & Motion Seca 700 Race Lights | Fresh Produce
Gear

Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush

Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush It is possibly by mistake that a bike of such badness has emerged out of the “marathon bike” category stamped on...

Bike Test: The Cannondale Rush
Gear

Bike Test: RAGE DH

Bike Test: RAGE DH Jones might be completely wrong about the look of this bike. You may think it has a raw industrial appeal that far...

Bike Test: RAGE DH
Interviews

Entroducing: Elayna Caldwell

Elayna Caldwell has been entrenched solidly as one of the few distinctly female personalities hanging tough in the boy’s club of mountain biking since the...

Entroducing: Elayna Caldwell
Apparel

Ed's Office Attire | Hammered

Ed is our assistant editor, he’s Dirt magazines resident expert on all things mechanical and we call him the Colonel. Here’s the kit he always...

Ed's Office Attire | Hammered
Wheels and Tyres

Shifting | Hammered

Sram X.0 and Gore Ride–On Cable Combo If you want a gear set up on your bike that’ll survive the worst Britain has to throw at it,...

Shifting | Hammered
Fresh Produce

Mountain Cycle Shockwave | Fresh Produce

For 2009 the Mountain Cycle Shockwave 9.5 becomes simply the Shockwave, and that’s because they’ve reduced the frames travel from 9.5” to 8”...

Mountain Cycle Shockwave | Fresh Produce
Wheels and Tyres

Tyres | Hammered

Bontrager Big Earl TLR ARC ‘Wet’ I’ve been a big fan of these tyres for a few years now, and thankfully Bontrager haven’t changed them....

Tyres | Hammered
Apparel

Stuff I wear for doin' photos like. Steve Jones | Hammered

STUFF I WEAR FOR DOIN’ PHOTOS LIKE. STEVE JONES Steve is our deputy editor, he rides his bike more than he’s supposed too, here’s the clothes...

Stuff I wear for doin' photos like. Steve Jones | Hammered
Hardware

Pedals | Hammered

Pedals Superstar Mag Lite CNC Pedals It was only when I picked these up off Ed H’s desk that I realised they were pretty special and...

Pedals | Hammered
Gear

Bike Test: DIRTY BUT CLEAN

Words Steve Jones Photos Victor Lucas This is a typical piece of French artistry, the likes of which we have not seen since the heady days of...

Bike Test: DIRTY BUT CLEAN
Interviews

John Lawlor Interview | Entroducing

It’d be good if you knew a bit more about some of our other contributors, so this time it’s the turn of ‘Your Neck of...

John Lawlor Interview | Entroducing
Suspension

Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard? | Hammered

Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard? Fox 36 Forks 2009 Here we bloody go again. Seems like only yesterday I was trying to make a meal out...

Why Doesn’t Tarzan Have A Beard? | Hammered
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Point One Racing | Fresh Produce

With all the stuff that comes through our door it takes something pretty special to get everyone gathered round...

Point One Racing | Fresh Produce
Gear

Bike Test: THE WHYTE E120

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...

Bike Test: THE WHYTE E120
Interviews

Jerry Schipper Interview | Entroducing

There are some faces that have been in the race scene for years, and then there are also just as many that disappear. Jerry Schipper...

Jerry Schipper Interview | Entroducing
Gear

Fly on the Wall: BIKE TEST

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...

Fly on the Wall: BIKE TEST
Fresh Produce

Superstar Superstrong 20mm HUB | Fresh Produce

Here’s another great value product from those ‘cut out the middleman’ guys at Superstar. The quality of finish is high and so is the construction...

Superstar Superstrong 20mm HUB | Fresh Produce
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