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    Books you must read

    Bike related: The Art of Wheelbuilding (A Bench Reference for Neophytes, Pros & Wheelaholics) - Gerd Schraner, pretty much the bible of wheelbulding, still worth owning even if you've laced a wheel or 2 Non-bike: Mao: The Unknown Story - Jung Chang, provids a peek of some of the absolute...
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    boxxer or boxxer

    Q. Why do bike forks have legs but eating forks have tines? A. Because they are not the same thing. Lets just end the argument by calling it just another americanisation (americanization for those who can't read 'english') of a word and leave the poor bloke to find some info about some new...
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    first it was "looks flexy"....

    I'm pretty sure "but will there be a version for freeriding?" used to be up there with "does it come in rootbeer?"
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    UCI Bans the "SAM Hill" Look

    Are the UCI going to set a "minimum Peak Length" just to make sure riders arn't going bullit style. I think Peaty and Dirt have achieved victory in their long running campaign.
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    2009 Manitou Dorado

    Rennies yeti with the double top crown Dorados was for sale recently at my lbs, I almost bought as a piece of sporting memorabilia.
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    the mrp/e13 battle continues

    you honestly think the Model T was the first car with 4 wheels?
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    Whatever happened to . . . ?

    Steve Geal? (UK) I had a poster of him circa 98, doing a past flat table and rocking a pair of orignal z.1s with the discs on the right hand side. I thought that was the coolest thing ever back then.
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    Crazy Stem

    2 sharks fins on your TLD lid and a set of Oakley 'money' hologram goggles took at least 3 seconds off your race run.
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    Dakine builders pack

    i'm guessing that most people would use a blade cover if they were planning to use that pack. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Chainsaw_ms280c_1.jpg
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    Ssssssssssssssss!

    looks like a 'Armor' rotor toodles, I've got a similar one on my leg.
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    Who's the new YETI DH guy for 08?

    Insane Wayne Croasdale is due to make a come back
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    Broken Jaw, food options?

    baby food is great as quick snack if your out of reach of a blender, say at work or while travelling, some of the meat based stuff is pretty good, try to buy in bulk as buying single jars/tubs is expensive.
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    NICOLAI "Ion" Release

    sorry, just to add the standard RM sillyness, "will there be a Ion for freeriding" and on a serious note, anyone got a different angle pic or details of the dropouts?
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    Honda RN01 frameset

    um, i think the whole 2004 madcatz team really relaunched IH in the race scene, rennie took the world champioship that year too. sorry for the de/re-rail
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    Oldest Working Part?

    I had to dig out a '95(?) 8spd STX-RC rear mech as i am slowly running out of shimano 8spd parts for my dirt jump/hack bike. with 97 xtr shifters it's still suprisingly smooth and crisp. i also run a mavic 217 sup (not much sup left) rim on the front of that bike, circa '95 aswell maybe? my...
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    Team Maxxis/ellsworth Spy Photos

    kickin' it, LTS style, maybe they're are just holding back on the new secret ninja "Rocker Tuned Suspension" design that'll takeover from this current VPP trend
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    Is there a funnier word than Wang?

    Chode, i used the term alot while traveling in europe because even if people understood some english insults, no-one knew chode.
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    Derailleur protector/guard for thru axle bikes

    with the guards the aussie ridders are using it's mainly for sticks/vines more so that rocks, i'd even go so far as to say it's a cairns thing (edge cycles is a shop in cairns) as all of the tracks there are in very dense rainforest and getting your rear mech caught in a fine sucks. you can't...
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    Drama BMX

    cory bohan, allen cooke, dave dillward, colin makay, damn aussies and bikes, now if we could just get our roadies and XC boys and girls to step it up. (that disaster to 360 tailtap to tailwhip back in by makay was probably the most talked about thing at my park in the past year (browns...
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    Some dude on vodka binge blows 0.462

    well australia has only about 8 major cities with some massive distances between some of them for example it's 3000km from darwin to adelaide which is the cloest major center, and perth to adelaide it's 2800 kms, again adelaide being the cloest major center. just in the state of queensland it's...