PRELIMINARY REVIEW of the 2020 SANTA CRUZ TALLBOY
2020 Santa Cruz Tallboy IV Ridden
Gravity riders looking for a short travel rocket may want to put the newest bike from Santa Cruz on their list...
Loooong Term Review
2019 Marin Mount Vision 8
" It's a unique feeling that had me picking the most chundery of lines just to see if it would hook up..."
FIRST IMPRESSIONS AND DETAILS
Riding the 2020 Kona Process 134 CR 29
Intended as a true trail bike, Kona's 2020 Process 134 is much more than just a little brother to the 153. Available in carbon as a 29er and in alloy with 29 or 27.5" wheels.
Press Release
YETI CYCLES RELEASES THE ALL-NEW SB140
The new 27.5” trail bike rounds out Yeti’s 2020 line
Dave Goes Gucci
Ibis Ripley: First Impressions
It scoots in and out of corners so quickly, and it handles steeps so well that you forget you're on a bike with only 120mm...
Birth of the New Santa Cruz Hightower
Interview: 2020 Hightower Lead Engineer Eamon Briggs
"The new HT was really a ground-up new design. It’s such a different animal in terms of suspension layout and geo..."
REVIEW
Introducing the 2020 Santa Cruz Hightower
We've been rallying Santa Cruz's latest 29er in the Pacific Northwest for several weeks...
First Impressions
Introducing the Forbidden Bikes Druid
Short travel, high pivot wizardry from a new outfit on Vancouver Island - a trail bike with DH technology...
FIRST LOOK
Specialized Stumpjumper EVO Carbon
Specialized expands on the Stumpy EVO line with carbon versions in both wheel sizes
The New 2019 Jeffsy in 27.5 and 29
Introducing the 2019 YT Jeffsy MK II (Ridden in Portugal)
The new Jeffsy gets more travel in both wheel sizes, a better pedalling platform, longer reach, shorter offset and of course Christopher Walken...
Brand New Everything
Forbidden Bike Company's High Single Pivot Trail Bike
The new Canadian company is looking to shake things up with a long chain and a currently unnamed trail bike…
Interview Video
Giant's Aggressive Trance 29 Trail Bike with Kevin Dana
Giant's Senior Global Category Manager, Kevin Dana, gets grilled on the new Trance 29 in a gondola…
First Impressions/Release
2019 Giant Trance 29 - Ridden in Italy
Can Giant's new, aggressive, short travel Trance 29er can hang with bigger bikes? They think so...
RELEASE | EDITORIAL
Maxing Value - The 2019 Marin Alpine Trail 7
Do you ever wonder why the suspension kinematics of lower-priced bikes doesn't match the effort going into higher priced platforms....
Interview
Interview: Santa Cruz Product Mgr. Josh Kissner on Bronson/5010 Mk 3
The man behind Santa Cruz's newest models rides for the camera and answers all our stupid questions....
First Impressions
2019 Santa Cruz 5010 V3 - Ridden on a Ledge
The Bronson's little brother gets longer, slacker and potentially fatter, with the option of tires up to 2.8"
INTERVIEW & PRESS RELEASE
Introducing the Mondraker Foxy Carbon 29
The venerable Mondraker Foxy has a new big-wheeled brother in the family...
Our Pick of the Litter
Weird (some but not all) Bikes of Sea Otter
A new ride from Alchemy, a boost to the top for trail builders and 29ers rolling on wee 27" wheels...
Touch and Feel
Yeti's SB100 In The Flesh
Yeti's new short travel 29er is good looking but it also responds to riders complaints about previous models...
First Impressions/Release
Specialized Announces Three New Stumpjumpers
The new bike has seen a complete overhaul from top to bottom…
Long-Term Review
2018 Kona Satori 29'er
Kona pegs this bike as a do anything machine but is it up to the rigours of aggressive technical trail riding...
First Impressions
2018 Kona Satori DL
After a brief absence from Kona's line-up the Satori is back and it's brought on some characteristics of other great rides like the Process 111 and the Hei Hei trail…
Mostly Sweet, Briefly Very Ugly...
Best of 2017 - Cam McRae
Dark times often reveal our strengths - but it wasn't all dark in bikes, movies, trails...
Long Term Review
Spot Mayhem 29 on the North Shore
"I was expecting to get punished by Whistler's late-season child swallowing braking bumps, but the Spot was more forgiving than any 130 mm bike has a right to be..."