How do Banshee’s Wildcard, Corsair’s Konig, Intense’s SlopeStyle, Specialized’s SX Trail, and Transition’s BottleRocket stack up against each other?
We’ve had some time now on all of the park bikes. While we used essentially the same build kit across every bike, they certainly exhibited different characteristics the more we rode them. To wrap up our [...]
2009 Products / 2010 Products / Bike Setup / Events / Guide / How-to / Products / Review
January 6, 2010 22009 was an exciting year. We took a look at a lot of different products, traveled to events, covered breaking news, and debuted our first electronic magazine. Check inside to see some of our most popular articles from 2009.
In our latest special edition e-magazine we reviewed Banshee’s dirt jump/4x bike the AMP. We’ve had the bike for awhile making updates to our Projects section. You can view the full review in our interactive e-magazine format or as Adobe PDF.
[Review: Banshee AMP - E-Magazine Version | PDF Version]
After a long season we’ve made some final modifications to our Iron Horse SSO Project. This will be the final update on this faithful steed. Check the link below for our thoughts and watch out for more new projects in 2010.
[Project: Iron Horse SSO]
We’ve had a lot of riding time on Banshee’s Legend MK1 recently and we thought it was time for a project update. Check inside to find out more.
[Project: Banshee Legend MK1]
We’ve built up a perennial downhill favorite, the Santa Cruz V10. The V10 has been revised over the years and continues to be a solid performing bike winning races all over the world. Check out our build inside and look for a review later this month.
[Build: Santa Cruz V10]
We’ve changed a few things on our Iron Horse SSO project. We’ve replaced some of the temporary components, a custom saddle, and included some thoughts on a few of our component choices. An interview with Dave Weagle about the SSO has also been added to the project page for more information on this enigmatic bike.
[Project: [...]
For 2009 Steve Smith has joined the Evil MS Racing team with fellow teamates Filip Polc and Matti Lehikoinen. There hasn’t been a ton of info put out on the Evil Revolt but we got to take an up close look at Steve’s Evil Revolt at the U.S. Open. Check inside for more details.
Short travel full suspension bikes are quite popular amongst park / lift assisted riders for a wide variety of reasons. We’ve decided to build a few up with a static build kit to see how a select group of frames stack up and compare against each other.
The first bike we’ve selected is the Corsair König [...]
During the Sea Otter Classic we spotted quite a few Pros’ bikes. Check inside to see what riders like Greg Minnaar, Steve Smith, Jared Rando, Andrew Neethling, and many more were riding at the event.
Gee’s Commencal Supreme DH
Dirt has a nice article they posted up written by Steve Jones about the comparison of Gee Atherton’s race bike to the production consumer version. It has some insightful information about the changes to geometry and other detailed aspects of the bike. They’ve included a good amount of photos taken by Victor [...]
There are a few guys already doing this… but many more should be. Introducing reach and stack based sizing for mountain bikes (especially gravity ones). Expect to see many more companies on board, you should too if you’re a bike manufacturer. Details inside.
2008 Morewood Izimu
As we found out in our poll a while back, many riders are predominantly looking for a bike that will be reliable and durable. An often found characteristic of reliable and durable products is the fact they are often simple and use few moving parts. This typically allows for fewer mechanic complications.
For those interested [...]
2008 Intense M6 FRO
Intense is long known for creating high performance downhill bikes. This year they introduced the M6 to replace the M3 as their flagship downhill machine. We built up one to test for ourselves and see how it performs. Inside you’ll find our bike build and later down the road we’ll have a [...]
Canfield Brothers have got a lot of new bikes this year and we’ve had some time on their prototype bike called the One. Inside you’ll find our review of it and a small bike build segment showcasing some of the parts we equipped it with. It’s a short link 4-Bar (VPP) bike that [...]
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