The Patriot makes a return to the Orange Mountain Bikes lineup for 2012. Taking up a position between the Alpine 160 and 224, the new bike delivers 180mm of balanced single pivot suspension. The original was responsible for much of our direction in design, the [...]
We’ve had several boxed of goodies arrive with us at DWR towers this week ready for fitting to our Trek Remedy test sled and given a good thrashing over the Summer. First up are the new Mountain King II treads from Continental. Good for “All [...]
A bit of a long lost review this one, mainly because I just found an old one that was written and never posted from last summer. So consider this one a long term test. The Iodine’s are the AM/Trail model in the Crank Brothers wheel [...]
First up here on the final test is the Nuke Proof Neutron Alloy-Ti pedal, these I have to say are my choice of pedal as before they arrived I was using the older Proton version which doesn’t have the Ti axle. I can’t praise these [...]
With the season well and truly upon us, it’s been really noticeable how “blinged” up everybody seems to be this year with all the latest threads from the likes of TLD, Fox etc. but how do you stand out from the crowd these days? When [...]
Hot on the heels of the latest Shimano XT release, SRAM are not to be out done..XO is updated today and it’s happening right now at the Sea Otter Classic…here’s extracts from their blurb! X0 brings the right gear to your most heated trail battles—any [...]
