This past spring I had contacted John Watson about sending him a bike for review. He was down so I scheduled the build to arrive at his doorstep in July this past summer for him to begin the review process. Being that this was formally my first bike out for any sort of test or …
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44 Bikes X Radavist
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Huntsman “Super Trail”
When we first moved to NH in 2006, the very first thing that became completely evident was just how many well groomed dirt roads were available at my fingertips. At the time I had a single speed mountain bike and a Kona Kula made out of Reynolds 853 sporting 25mm tires. And it immediately was …
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Time to Tell it Like it is…
I recently read a short statement via John Watson’s Instagram account for The Radavist regarding racing and riding and I whole-heartedly agree with the sentiment. Not to mention, it’s a notion I’ve held for a long, long time. The notion of riding more and racing less or maybe it’s more about riding and less about …
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What Season is it? Hunting Season!
We’ve got a lot of season’s it seems here in New England. Especially NH: We’ve got the text book Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter thing going on. But in there, between those lines there’s a bunch of others… Mud Season, Bug season (Which has it’s own subset of seasons, namely Black Fly Season, Horsefly Season, Mosquito …
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Huntsman 1×11 Build Check
A few weeks ago, the New England Builders’ Ball was approaching and right around the same time I had budgeted some time in the build list to rebuild a new Huntsman for myself. So planets were aligned and it was time to churn out a new prototype with a few new features to test out …
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FAB 5 Fridays
03082 Playlist : Swingin’ Utters
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FAB 5 Fridays
03082 Playlist : Screeching Weasel
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TA or QR?
A while back, Shimano and Fox teamed up to create the 15mm TA standard for suspension forks. (EDIT: More to that point of history, check out this article over on NSMB from 2010.) Up till then, Rock Shox had pioneered the 20mm thru axle, but these forks were really biased towards the freeride or DH …
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FAB 5 Fridays
03082 Playlist : BEAT BEAT
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Shimano XTR or Sram XX1?
I was asked online what I thought were the biggest differences between XTR and XX1 recently. I answered the question but thought I could expand on that short answer here in greater detail. Honestly, XTR and XX1 are just THAT good. It’s really, really tough to pick one over the other. It boils down to …
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