Fall 2020

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

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EDITORIAL Nicole Formosa EDITOR Satchel Cronk PHOTO & VIDEO EDITOR Travis Engel GEAR EDITOR Robert Sawyer ART DIRECTOR Ryan Palmer SENIOR EDITOR Mike Ferrentino EDITOR-AT-LARGE David Reddick FOUNDING PHOTO EDITOR Mike Vihon CAPTAIN GRAVITY Senior Wri
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Start
I don’t take so many photos these days. Yet amid a strange year, the images I do capture feel more meaningful than before. With less time spent on the road, shooting everything all of the time, my lenses tend to focus on the people and places close t
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Letters
Thank you and, WOW! Mike Ferrentino and Nicole Formosa in the summer 2020 issue, thank you (Grimy Handshake and Start Here, Vol 27. Issue 2). Don’t give a thought to those who say, “I come here to get away from politics.” As you both say so perfectly
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Crafting A Rescue
Skye Schillhammer was shooting photos in Bellingham, Washington, on a winter day with Pacific Northwest ripper Taylor James, a local well-known for his wild-guy antics on and off the bike, when suddenly the day took a serious turn. James had just att
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Empty Handed
It was 1991. Nirvana had just released “Nevermind.” I had just stripped my black Yeti FRO of its gears, as well as the heavy and failure-prone Mountain Cycle Suspenders fork and Pro-Stop disc brake, and decided to chase after the simplicity of single
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Butcher Paper
To all the newbs I'Ve loved before don't ever change I haven’t written a letter like this in a while. Hell, last time I had the clammy-hand feeling of putting these types of words into writing, I was still a gap-toothed middle school kid whose go-to
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Progression Proven
When Casey Brown greased the landing of a difficult 30-foot jump at last summer’s Proving Grounds, the first-ever qualifier for Red Bull Rampage, no one watching could contain their excitement. Certainly not photographer Paris Gore, recalling the emo
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Watering Hole
We’ve all been there. Exhausted, even if we love it. Pushed. Every creative drop squeezed, empty of words, energy wrung from a now-hollow inner. This ended a week of careful consideration—free flowing yet meticulous and thoughtful line choices. Camp
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Turns You Earn
If modern shred groms learn that trail work today makes for better berms tomorrow, well then, that’s a generation of riders who will warp through technique, PRs and fear until they’re teetering on the edge of carnage. “He certainly can huck his meat,
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Permanent Installation
IT’S SATURDAY, SUNNY AND 75 DEGREES. THE FOREST IS A vibrant green and recent rains have made the loamy, redwood soil nothing short of magical. A seemingly endless conga line of riders labors up a dirt road. Before embarking on their descent, nearly
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Test
I drafted a few deep, philosophical analogies to lead us into this review, but I scrapped them all. The Murmur isn’t about the clever wordplay or fancy sentence structure that typical Bike intros normally traffic in. The Murmur is about riding your d
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Test
I tend to assume that anyone making a steel full-suspension bike must hold a dogmatic belief in ferrous metals. Don’t get me wrong: dogmatic beliefs can be correct, but the tiny proportion of the mountain bike market dedicated to steel full-suspensio
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Re-formation
Sometimes the most difficult part of being a pro athlete is figuring out how to not be a pro athlete anymore. When racing or sponsorship obligations no longer fill your cup, financially or otherwise, what’s the next step and how do you take it? For K

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