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When Keegan Swenson crossed the finish line to win the gruelling Leadville Trail 100 MTB race in a time of five hours and 45 minutes, as soon as the celebrations died down, it was his Santa Cruz Blur

The Swiss rider’s adventure-focused BMC URS was readied for the rough

As a cyclist appraising an unfamiliar bike, what are the first two things you do? You give the brakes a cursory squeeze, then pick it up. Weight really is the only proper performance metric that anyon

Bob Parlee went from boats into bikes. It wasn’t a huge leap as his job remained essentially the same: composites engineer. Having made boats from carbon fibre, he decided to apply his knowledge to hi

As if it was meant to be, I finally managed to get my hands on the parts and tools needed to upgrade the cranks and chainring on my Wild. After some flurried Googling and general expert-bothering, I w