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Apr
6
Book Review: Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell

Book Review: Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Apr. 6, 2010

Paris-Roubaix: The Past Inspires Greatness

When the peloton leaves the capital and heads north, it traverses the industrial suburbs where smokestacks abound. But it's Sunday and no one's working today: “Pass in peace gentleman, you have enough to deal with in Hell...

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Mar
29
Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac

Boneshaker: A Bicycling Almanac

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Mar. 29, 2010

The cover of this pocket-sized publication states, “Boneshaker is a practical bicyclist’s handbook and a basic field and street manual for utilitarian cycling.” But it’s not a handbook in the classical sense.

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Mar
6
ROAM: a film by the Collective.

ROAM: a film by the Collective.

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Mar. 6, 2010

Reviewed by Dave Sheldon As the snow piles up outside and the winter doldrums set in, it’s essential to find a little two-wheeled inspiration. The fat tire video ROAM supplies just that and more, as its adrenaline tapping footage left me dry mounted, red eyed, and craving more…

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Mar
6
Fruita Fate Tire Guidebook – Sixth Edition

Fruita Fate Tire Guidebook – Sixth Edition

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Mar. 6, 2010

Written by Troy Rarick and Anne Keller Sixth Edition? Has it really been that many? Has it really been that long since we all started blasting into Fruita for sun, singletrack and desert delinquency? Yup.

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Mar
6
Gallup Waypoints

Gallup Waypoints

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Mar. 6, 2010

A collection of singletrack mountain bike trails based out of Gallup, New Mexico.

By Steinar Smith

Yatahey – The Navajo word for hello.

Yataho – Get on your bike and go!

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Mar
5
Specialized Stumpjumper: 25 years of Mountain Biking.

Specialized Stumpjumper: 25 years of Mountain Biking.

Brian Riepe / Category: Bikes & Gear, Reading / Mar. 5, 2010

Reviewed by Dave Sheldon

If you’re looking to reminisce about the early days of fat tired riding, or simply want to gain an understanding of where and how mountain biking started, pick yourself up a copy of “Specialized Stumpjumper: 25 years of Mountain Biking.”

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