June 2017

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Bike Magazine Reviews and Tests the Newest and Latest in Mountain Bikes.

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See the Forest
LET’S FACE IT: LIFE CAN BE REALLY HARD, EVEN FOR THE most privileged North Americans and Europeans. Even though most of us don’t have to struggle for clean drinking water or enough food to eat, just making ends meet in our hyper-commercial societies
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Letters
DEAR READER, there is no shortage of controversial subjects in the world of mountain biking, and over the years we’ve seen most of them addressed in our letters section. We’ve fielded arguments for and against the priority of the climber over the des
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Lost Borders
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, I CHASED LOVE across the U.S., from the forested, green hills of Pennsylvania to the tortoise-brown, corrugated tapestry of the high Mojave Desert, pulling into Ridgecrest, California, as the sun set on the southern Sierra Nevada
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Old Dog’s Tricks
NICKNAMES ARE A DOUBLE-EDGED sword. You can’t give yourself one and, for better or worse, one’s sobriquet could shadow them for a lifetime. “I’m not sure if I know when or how I became ‘Old Dog,’” says Mike Kelley, an accomplished outdoorsman and fat
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Lines in the Sand
OF ALL THE EXTREME-SPORTS EXTRAVAGANZAS AROUND THE world, few are more up close and personal than Red Bull Rampage, the annual big-mountain competition held amid the towering desert mesas near Virgin, Utah. These days, most fans experience the event
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Solo Mission
I HAVE A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH solitude, but don’t we all? As the only child of a single mom, my days as a latchkey kid started early and came often—and I loved them. After tossing my rusty bike aside and fumbling for the key buried deep in my pu
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Word Play
THE RULES OF THE TELEPHONE GAME are simple: “One person whispers a message to the ear of the next person through a line of people until the last player announces the message to the entire group. Although the objective is to relay the message without
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After the Flood
WHEN REG MULLET AND Andrew McIntosh set out for a couple days of digging on Moose Mountain in the spring of 2013, they knew a storm was coming. They just didn’t know how big it would be. The plan was to work until dark that Tuesday in the foothills o
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Suffering ? Fun Work ?
EARNING YOUR DESCENTS DOESNT APPLY IN MONTANAS QUEEN CITY FREE RIDE “HIPPIES BUILT THAT,” Timmy says as we pedal past a crumbling stone kiln on the edge of the road, his fullface helmet resting on top of his head. It’s a large limestone oven, roughly
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Bike Test
SPARK 900 | $5,600 IT’S A SHAME WHAT WE’VE DONE TO THE TERM ‘EPIC.’ LIKE the buffalo that used to roam the western states, this majestic word sustainably coexisted with humans for centuries. But along came mountain bikers, and in just a few short yea
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Top Notch
I WAS HESITANT TO REVIEW A SHIRT THAT costs this much, but because the District still looks brand new after having ridden in it almost exclusively for more than a year, I’ve concluded that this seemingly pretentious piece of clothing is worth every d
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Beatdown
IN THE GORE ONE PRO JACKET I $500 OVER THE YEARS, ONE THING ABOUT MY wet-weather riding experiences has remained constant: I never know if my gear is up to the challenge until it’s too late. Sure, most jackets will do the job through light showers an

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