First Look: Diamondback Mission 4 AM Mountain Bike
Review: Specialized Enduro SL Pro Carbon – Sub 30 lbs 160mm
Specialized S-Works Epic Carbon 29er Mountain Bike Revealed
Video: 2011 Cannondale Jekyll – Adjustable 150mm Trail Bike
First Look: Santa Cruz Tallboy – Carbon 29er Mountain Bike
Santa Cruz V10 Carbon – Long Travel Carbon DH Bike
Poll: Do You Run Tubes Or Go Tubeless In Your Tires?
First Look: WTB TCS Customized Integrated Wheel System
Review: Shimano SLX Mountain Bike Component Group
Poll Results: Who’s Mountain Bike Suspension Are You Running?
Who’s MTB Suspension Are You Running?
Review: Hive Fifteen.G XC/AM Mountain Bike Crankset
Riding Tip: Big Mountain Riding – Tackle The Peaks
Returning To The Scene Of The Crime: Wreck Recovery
Discount Bike Parts: Where To Find and What To Trust
Mountain Bike Maps, Routes and Courses – Plan Your Next Trip
Down But Not Out: Top 5 Things To Do When On Wreck Leave
The Overworked Leg Trap: Preventing Dead Legs
Review: Specialized Vice AM Style Mountain Bike Helmet
Pimp My Ride – A Look Inside Spectrum Powder Works
How To Protect Your Frame From Scratches and Cable Rub
Review: Harlot Murray Short and Primo Jersey – MTB Gear Review
Review: Specialized S-Works MT Mountain Bike Helmet
Review: Kool ‘N Fit Sport Performance Spray
Bike Reviews
First Look: Diamondback Mission 4 AM Mountain Bike
Next up on the chopping block at Bike198 is the Mission 4 from Diamondback. This 150mm rear wheel...
Review: Specialized Enduro SL Pro Carbon – Sub 30 lbs 160mm
For the past 7 months, the Bike198 crew has been ripping up the Specialized Enduro SL Pro Carbon...
Specialized S-Works Epic Carbon 29er Mountain Bike Revealed
The Specialized Epic Carbon 29er marks a new entry point for Specialized Mountain Bikes…a...
- Video: 2011 Cannondale Jekyll – Adjustable 150mm Trail Bike
- First Look: Santa Cruz Tallboy – Carbon 29er Mountain Bike
- Santa Cruz V10 Carbon – Long Travel Carbon DH Bike
Component Reviews
Poll: Do You Run Tubes Or Go Tubeless In Your Tires?
Gone are the days of 1.8 tires filled up with 50 psi just hoping that you do not pinch flat your...
First Look: WTB TCS Customized Integrated Wheel System
For 2010, WTB is releasing new lineup of wheels implementing their TCS (tubeless compatible system)...
Review: Shimano SLX Mountain Bike Component Group
When Shimano set out to design a new budget group for mountain bikers, they ditched the LX (moved...
- Poll Results: Who’s Mountain Bike Suspension Are You Running?
- Who’s MTB Suspension Are You Running?
- Review: Hive Fifteen.G XC/AM Mountain Bike Crankset
Riding Tips
Riding Tip: Big Mountain Riding – Tackle The Peaks
For those lucky riders in mountainous areas like Colorado, North Carolina, Sections of California,...
Returning To The Scene Of The Crime: Wreck Recovery
My wrecks come in series. I’ll go months without hitting the ground and then…like it...
Discount Bike Parts: Where To Find and What To Trust
Finding the best discount bike parts and mountain bikes is going to become even more crucial as...
- Mountain Bike Maps, Routes and Courses – Plan Your Next Trip
- Down But Not Out: Top 5 Things To Do When On Wreck Leave
- The Overworked Leg Trap: Preventing Dead Legs
Gear Reviews
Review: Specialized Vice AM Style Mountain Bike Helmet
There is a growing trend in the mountain biking industry for helmets that provide more protection...
Pimp My Ride – A Look Inside Spectrum Powder Works
Bike 198 has become a great place to look at the latest and greatest the cycling world has to offer,...
How To Protect Your Frame From Scratches and Cable Rub
Let me start this by saying that I am pretty sure I have used EVERY bike specific tape product to...
- Review: Harlot Murray Short and Primo Jersey – MTB Gear Review
- Review: Specialized S-Works MT Mountain Bike Helmet
- Review: Kool ‘N Fit Sport Performance Spray
Other News
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Dumbing Down The Trail: The Art Of Removing Technical Trail Features
A wreck over the weekend has stirred up some intense debate over removing obstacles in the trail in the name of safety. This past weekend, a friend of ours fractured his C7 vertebrae after having a head on collision with a diagonal tree that overhangs the trail on a non-technical trail in north Georgia. This specific tree has been known for collarbone breaks and numerous life flights out of the area, so after this last serious encounter, it was removed. [...]
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The New Look, The Livestrong Foundation and Bike198
There have been some big changes and releases over at Bike198.com, so I wanted to give you a heads up on each. Bike198.com and The Livestrong Foundation Starting today, we are releasing Bike198 jersey’s and shorts for purchase. However, we didn’t want it to be just another “me too” website cycling jersey. We wanted the sale of our kits to actually mean something and give back to an industry that has provided so much to us over the years…so we [...]
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First Look: Diamondback Mission 4 AM Mountain Bike
Next up on the chopping block at Bike198 is the Mission 4 from Diamondback. This 150mm rear wheel travel all mountain styled mountain bike comes kitted out with some of the best the industry has to offer with the Truvativ Hammerschmidt AM mated to a 9 speed X.0 drivetrain with top of the line Fox Racing Shox components to handle the suspension work. The Mission 4 is the top of the line in the Mission lineup with several more options all the [...]
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Poll: Do You Run Tubes Or Go Tubeless In Your Tires?
Gone are the days of 1.8 tires filled up with 50 psi just hoping that you do not pinch flat your tubes and have to tear the tight tires off the v-brake rims. With wider and lighter tires, wider and lighter rims and a wide variety of different options for mountain bikers, you can enjoy the benefits of more rubber in more ways than ever. Running a set of tubeless tires used to mean heavy rims and heavy tires, but [...]
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Here Is Your 29er Mr. President – Niner Bikes Goes Presidential
I just received a pretty cool email from the crew over at Niner Bikes. The attached press release (below) and picture (credit: C.A. Smith | casmithphotography.com) you see above is Chris Cugai and Steve Domahidy of Niner Bikes delivering a Niner Jet 9 to former President George W. Bush. President Bush has been known for his 26″ obsession, but this is his first jump into the big wheeled category and he picked a great bike to start on. This story [...]
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Review: Specialized Vice AM Style Mountain Bike Helmet
There is a growing trend in the mountain biking industry for helmets that provide more protection while trail riding. Mountain bikers looking for increased protection that are not as weight sensitive now have a wide range of lids to choose from that going away from the typical racer look that mtb helmets have typically had in the past. It all seemed to start with the Fox Flux and now we are seeing helmets like this Specialized Vice on review and [...]
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Riding Tip: Big Mountain Riding – Tackle The Peaks
For those lucky riders in mountainous areas like Colorado, North Carolina, Sections of California, Canada, sections of Europe and other places that are graced with big mountain riding, you guys are used to taking in the tips I am about to lay out on your regular weekday rides. And don’t worry…the rest of us are incredibly jealous… But for those mountain bikers that find most of our riding with short climbs to short descents, we handle water consumption and ride [...]
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First Look: WTB TCS Customized Integrated Wheel System
For 2010, WTB is releasing new lineup of wheels implementing their TCS (tubeless compatible system) to provide a lightweight wheelset option to compliment their lightweight TCS lineup of tires. The idea is to bring high volume, lightweight, tubeless tires to a lightweight wheel setup to bring down overall rotational weight while still getting the benefits of running tubeless. The 23mm wide AM version is going right in line with the trend of wider rims at a lower weight that was [...]
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