Category: RIDDEN
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The Great Plus +/- Minus Experiment
Click or not: The Great Plus +/- Minus ExperimentWith a new innovation seemingly rolling out every week in mountain biking, it’s easy for some of them to get left by the wayside, while others slip seamlessly into the mainstream and take over as a new standard while you weren’t looking. When 27.5 or––650b as it was first known––hit the scene, it seemed only… …
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Ridden: Teravail Rampart
Click or not: Ridden: Teravail RampartThere are a number of unassuming pieces of kit that always outperform their appearances: Cactus’ indestructible fleece pull over, Continental GP 4000s in 25c, or that plastic spork you got for Christmas all those years ago that you still use all come to mind. The Teravail Rampart is also a subtle, unassuming tyre that shines… …
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Ways To Carry Stuff: EDC – Excellence Does Charm
Click or not: Ways To Carry Stuff: EDC – Excellence Does CharmSince the days when they only made 10 speed expander cogs, One Up Components have tugged at my heartstrings. Every new product released from their tiny Squamish headquarters seems to outdo the prior in terms of quality of manufacture, thoughtful design and functionality in the field; and this past year has seen them with a… …
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Ridden: Vittoria Corsas
Click or not: Ridden: Vittoria CorsasThe capellini that you’re used to seeing on road bikes are quickly falling out of fashion. Even the pros, known for their loyalty to skinny and fast at all costs have been spotted chowing down on wider and wider rubber. The average punter (you and I and that other guy) can benefit from the many… …
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Ridden: Specialized Sequoia Expert
Click or not: Ridden: Specialized Sequoia ExpertWhen the Specialized Sequoia Expert arrived at Slap HQ, I wasn’t really harbouring any thoughts that it might be a bike that would replace riding two or three others. It’s not a road bike, it’s definitely not a mountain bike, but it’s both of those and more, admittedly in smaller portions of each of the… …
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Ridden: Teravail Cannonball Tyres
Click or not: Ridden: Teravail Cannonball TyresWords: Kristine Ford Photos: Brett Kennedy On my very first mountain bike ride about five years ago I was given some pretty sage advice: “Trust your tyres.” This advice has stayed with me and been my mantra whenever I’m freaking about the terrain I’m riding. I say it over and over while trying to negotiate… …
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Ridden: OneUpmanship – A New Hope
Click or not: Ridden: OneUpmanship – A New HopeThe frequently bonkers and often backwards bicycle industry has a problem of getting too big for its britches and while it may seem a strange thing to comment, smaller is and always will be better. Small, local bike shops aren’t going away any time soon despite what some of the major online retailers would have… …
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Ridden: Maxxis Treadlite: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Click or not: Ridden: Maxxis Treadlite: What Goes Around, Comes Around“Happiness is a function of expectations.” Jalen Rose, from Jalen and Jacoby. The Maxxis Treadlite is a 1990s race MTB semi-slick reincarnated in 2017 as a tyre pursuing an activity that really boomed in the 60s and 70s. The 2017 guise comes tubeless-happy with a middling 2.1″ footprint in all three rim sizes. We rode the goldilocks… …