Check out Matt Simmonds Privateer 161 bike build inside. Continue reading →

Check out these fun videos of the 2020 Santa Cruz mechanics talking about a wide range of topics in the sport including the mullet setup: 29″ front wheel and a 27.5″ rear wheel.

Everyone loves an inside look at pro athlete bikes and Red Bull walks you though Greg Minnaar’s inside.

Balance Your Bike (BYB) Telemetry sent over some details on their Kickstarter that launches today. It aims to make suspension setup easier for both professionals and amateurs alike with a telemetry system that straps to your bike. Details inside from … Continue reading →

Inside we take a look at products from Polygon, Magua, and Cam Zink’s YT Jeffsy.

Kurt Sorge is riding for Polygon this year and inside we snapped a few detailed shots of his bike. See the shots on his bike inside along with some details about the SR Suntour RUX fork he’s running.

Check out Curtis Keene’s Specialized Enduro bike inside that he’s been riding at Sea Otter inside. He’s got a few neat things on his bike including some personal touches.

Öhlins and Specialized have forged a relationship together on select 2014 model bikes. We’ve been testing one of their TTX 22M dampers out and have some additional details inside for you all on the Öhlins damper and spring setup. We … Continue reading →

FOX has been developing a smart pump concept that helps setup FOX suspension in a more automated fashion.  Check inside for a video walk through of how it works.

Bearings are an vital piece in the functionality of a frame. In this next stage of updates on our Project Sunday we’ve outfitted it with new Enduro bearings from Real World Cycling and a new paint job as well.
[Project Sunday Update] Continue reading →

A while back we posted a short guide of sorts for people looking for pieces and parts to build/upgrade their one bike solutions.  We’ve updated the list so check it out if you’re in the market for some new parts.

Steve Peat may not have won World Championships for 2010 but that doesn’t mean his bike doesn’t look like a winner. Check inside for details on Steve’s 2010 World Champs Santa Cruz Carbon V10.

Sam Hill won the UCI Downhill World Championships this year at Mont Sainte Anne. Specialized had his bike straight off the track on display at Interbike. Check inside for photos and info on his ride.

Greg Minnaar’s Santa Cruz Carbon V-10 was on display at Interbike. Check out his prototype Gamut chainguide… It is a bit different than an off the shelf Gamut guide. Check inside for more details.

Darren Berrecloth is a freeride and slopestyle legend. Darren walked us through his 2011 Specialized SX showing us some of his part choices and tweaks. Check inside for photos and full video.

We got to check out Brendan Fairclough’s 2011 Specialized Demo 8  world cup race bike. Check inside for details and an interview with Brendan about his Demo 8 experience.

We caught up with Fabien Cousinié at Sea Otter to check out his new Black Mountain Morewood United rides. Check inside for a video with Fabien and more photos.

We’ve updated our Transition TR450 project. The completed build is up and has been ran through some paces during early season riding. Find out what parts got put on the build as well as some initial riding impressions. [Transition TR450 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

2009 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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →