Bikes - Hardtails

While it's clear the Stache wasn't designed for the nastiest, steepest terrain, for trails where it shines it lights up like a near-sighted goalie...

Kona has done a side run around e-bike opponents - and it's (almost) impossible to be mad...

Not just a wagon-wheeler but a Plus wagon wheeler - Trek's Stache 29+ hardtail getting ready for North Shore testing...

Up For Anything; Down For Anything

Three testers had the chance to ride Kona's hardtail fatbike during the snowiest North Shore winter in years - and on good old dirt as well...

Going back to a hardtail – even one with progressive geometry like the Primer – required patience. The payoff was well worth it.

“Is this some kind of masochistic manifestation of mid-life in crisis, or just the next phase in my infatuation with bikes?”

Rocky Mountain’s Blizzard is now a fat bike with a RockShox suspension fork.

“This frame has a perceptible compliance I’ve not experienced with previous aluminum frames…”

“I purchased my frame a couple of years ago, and fell in love with it right away. Since then I lost my love…”

She was a hand me down that sat in my basement for years – and now she’s become a favourite in my stable