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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Strava--for Better and for Worse

    There's no denying it. Even the most pony-tailed, pot-smoking, Kombucha-drinking, hippiest of us has an inner triathlete buried somewhere deep inside of them. Dig deep enough and you'll find a corner of your Id that shaves its legs, rocks a team-issue Lycra body condom and actually gives a damn...
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    Tested: Specialized Butcher Control Tires

    Specialized's Butcher Control tires started life as downhill-only models and you can still pick up either the downhill or freeride versions. Here, however, is how the much lighter, all-mountain flavored Butcher Control fared during a season of riding. Tested: Specialized Butcher Control Tires
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Has Enduro Jumped the Shark?

    Enduro racing is overhyped, overplayed and over exploited. Kittens and angels die every time a marketing hack whispers the words, "enduro-specific." It's gotten that bad. And yet, enduro might just be the best thing to happen to mountain biking in years and years. The Web Monkey Speaks: Has...
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Has Enduro Jumped the Shark?

    The whole "enduro" thing is overhyped, overplayed and over exploited. Kittens and angels die every time a marketing person types the words, "enduro-specific." It's truly gotten that bad. And yet, enduro might also be the best thing to happen to mountain biking in years and years. The Web Monkey...
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    Preview: Garmin Edge 1000

    Where do we start? How about this: the Edge 1000 promises to be the most fully-functioned cyclocomputer on the market. That's a bold claim, but consider this: the Edge 1000 does all the typical high-end GPS and performance tricks-plus it communicates with your smart phone, lets you compete...
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    First impressions: 2015 Kona Bikes

    Kona Bikes rolled out the 2015 models today and let us put our dirty mitts all over them. Here's what we saw at the launch today. First impressions: 2015 Kona Bikes
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: A Different Kind of Family Vacation

    You can argue that mountain biking is all about the gear or that mountain biking is all about the rush of riding, but I think riding is also, at its core, a very human thing. Riding offers us a means of connecting with other people and this can be as profound as the ride itself. The Web Monkey...
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    Tested: Tioga Spyder Stratum

    It doesn't look comfortable. Not by a long shot. The new Tioga Spyder Stratum saddle looks more like a sexy cheese grater than a comfortable saddle and most of us are loathe to rub our tender bits on cheese graters. Looks, however, are deceiving--Tioga's innovative saddle is plenty comfortable...
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Throwing the Yellow Gauntlet

    What is it, exactly, about yellow shoes? I don't know how it happened, but they have become the de facto thrown gauntlet, a proclamation that their owner is not here for a friendly little group ride...he's here to demoralize, destroy and bury everyone on the trail today. The Web Monkey Speaks...
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    Interview: Breadwinner Cycles' Take on The Perfect Rowdy Hardtail

    There's a commonly held belief that ultra-light steel hardtails are relics of a more sedate time--that t they can't keep pace with today's more aggressive riding styles. Breadwinner Cycles' Bad Otis turns that notion on its head. Interview: Breadwinner Cycles' Take on The Perfect Rowdy Hardtail
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: There's no fighting bike technology

    When you dump a couple grand on a mountain bike, you may not expect it to remain The Pinnacle of Bitchen-ness forever, but you probably didn't expect it to become the butt of jokes within three seasons. Sometimes it's hard not to feel like you got, you know, a little screwed. Screwed by the...
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    Cannondale Scalpel 29 review

    Like their namesake, the Cannondale Scalpel has a reputation for precision. It is also, however, expensive. Cannondale Scalpel 29 review
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    Preview: Breadwinner Cycles' Bad Otis

    Do we feel bad about pummeling the bike voted "Best Mountain Bike" at this year's North American Handmade Bicycle Show? Hell no. Not when the winner, Breadwinner Cycle's Bad Otis, is 25 pounds of brawling fun. And, yes, that's a six-inch travel Pike up front. Preview: Breadwinner Cycles' Bad Otis
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Endangered Species

    One in three bike shops in America closed their doors during the past 13 years. While it's hard to deny the Internet's lure of big savings, if we spend all of today's dollars online, there aren't going to be many neighborhood bike shops tomorrow. You, however, can do something about that. The...
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    Gear: Transition TransAm 29

    If you think of 29er hardtails as being the domain of featherweight race whips, the TransAm 29 steps right up and dispels that stereotype. Yes, it's a 29er. A steel 29er at that. This, however, is no crusty throwback to yesteryear. Gear: Transition TransAm 29
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Get With the F@cking Program

    What really sets British Columbia apart from the rest of the world? It's trail access, as well as land-managers who support the building of new trails. The Web Monkey Speaks: Get With the F@cking Program
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    Tested: Race Face Flank Leg guards

    The Race Face Flank Leg guards offers solid protection and far greater comfort than you'd expect in a full-coverage pad. Tested: Race Face Flank Leg guards
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: Riding With Groms

    It's hard to get inside a kid's head, to remember how scary or intimidating riding a bike once was for yourself, before the same experience magically morphed into this thing that's thrilling and invigorating today. But if you do that--and put away your dream of teaching them to catch big air or...
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    Preview: Transition TransAM 29 1

    A hardtail is a hardtail is a hardtail, right? Nope. Sure, they all lack rear suspension, but that's where the similarity often ends. Transition's TransAM 29er is a good example--a steel-framed wagon wheeler that's less interested in winning races and entirely obsessed with making short work of...
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    The Web Monkey Speaks: I Can't Quit You

    I'm as sentimental as a razor blade when it comes to material stuff. It's just so much crap, really. The exception is old cycling gear. It litters every corner of my life. I haven't ridden toe-clips since 1990, but I will gouge your eyes out before I let you walk away with my last pair of...