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10 tips to get your mountain bike ready for spring

Spring tune-up tips for mountain bikers
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Seven trailside repairs you need to know

Save your ride with these easy tricks
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How to inspect and care for your helmet

Know the signs and when it's time for a new brain bucket
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How to convert your bike to a 1x drivetrain

Cheap and effective solutions for DIY single-ring set-ups
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How to adjust a Shimano Shadow Plus clutch rear derailleur

Keep your Shimano XTR, XT or SLX Shadow Plus rear derailleur performing at its best
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The ‘new’ bottom bracket standard we can all get behind

Companies are pressing the case for a return to threaded bottom brackets
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The real problem with electric mountain bikes

In the US, the cycling industry must figure out how to keep e-MTBs from ruining it for the rest of us
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How 26+ breathes new life into 'old' wheel standard

What benefits does the smallest plus-sized wheel offer?
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Defining the gravel race bike

Is this new discipline worthy of a new genre of bicycle?
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Shock talk – the coil-sprung comeback

Coils bounce back thanks to enduro racing
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Examining the next generation of dropper seatposts

Auto-dropping seatposts are on the horizon
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Trail Tech: When form meets function

As the Ibis Mojo 3 reminds us, looking good is half the battle
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Trail Tech: Could The Wreckoning re-write the long-travel 29er playbook?

Details on the new 29er from the master of Evil
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Trail Tech: Into the night

Make the most of short days and long nights
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Trail Tech: Dropper seatposts for cyclocross

A competitive edge or superfluous technology?
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Trail Tech: Ditch the slipping grips

WTB's new PadLoc concept designed to keep grips from rotating
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Trail Tech: Exploring 27.5+ - video

The next big thing in mountain biking
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Five mountain bike technologies that'll be huge in 2016

Electronics, longer droppers and wider-range drivetrains are on their way
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Trail Tech: eye on innovations

Five new technologies that might make an appearance this year
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Best of Trail Tech 2014

We highlight some of the most popular 2014 Trail Tech columns
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Trail Tech: Exploring 27.5+ – video

The next big thing in mountain biking
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Trail Tech: Advancements in post-ride hydration technology

Better ways to hit the bottle
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Trail Tech: converting 29ers to 27.5 – just don’t do it

Leave well alone and try the real deal
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