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1 week ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between. We'd love to answer some of your questions - feel free to ask away in the comments, or leave us a message here.
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1 week ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
DT Swiss have announced that they will be shutting down Trickstuff's headquarters in Freiburg, Germany, at the end of June. Sales and customer service will now take place at DT Swiss' existing facility in Oelde, Germany; engineering, product management and marketing will be handled by DT's Biel, Switzerland, location, and the assembly of Trickstuff's products will occur in Oborniki, Poland.
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2 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Santa Cruz Bicycles has announced a recall of certain Heckler 9 eMTBs due to the risk of the lithium ion battery heating. According to the CPSC recall notice, 2,850 bikes were sold in the United States, plus 550 in Canada. The units affected have a 720 Wh battery, and were manufactured before February 2023. The CPSC has received three reports of fires, including some property damage. No injuries have been reported.
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2 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between. We'd love to answer some of your questions - feel free to ask away in the comments, or leave us a message here.
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2 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Forbidden's first entries into the eMTB world are the Druid CorE and the Druid LitE, two models that sit somewhere in the nebulous trail / all-mountain categories. And yes, that's how the model names are supposed to be capitalized, but that makes my eyes cross, so I'm going to stick with regular capitalization for the rest of this article.
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3 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Apr 24, 2025 Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between. We'd love to answer some of your questions - feel free to ask away in the comments, or leave us a message here.
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3 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Ultra light and ultra expensive wheels tend to be the norm in the cross-country world, where the pursuit of marginal gains can lead to incredibly high prices. Hunt’s XC Wide 29 MTB aluminum wheels take things in a different direction - the’re still designed with the demands of modern XC racing in mind, but the $490 (marked down from $699) price tag should allow privateers to still afford things like entry fees and food.
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4 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
A lot of gear comes across our desks here at Pinkbike. Check Out is an occasional round up of everything our tech editors have gotten their hands on. Sometimes it's products we're doing long-term tests on, other times it's stuff we're stoked on but don't have time to fully review. And, sometimes it's crazy shit someone sent us unsolicited and we're having a laugh.
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4 weeks ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
Featuring a rotating cast of the editorial team and other guests, the Pinkbike podcast is a weekly update on all the latest stories from around the world of mountain biking, as well as some frank discussion about tech, racing, and everything in between. We'd love to answer some of your questions - feel free to ask away in the comments, or leave us a message here.
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1 month ago | 
pinkbike.com | Mike Kazimer
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video This bike and its amazing anodized finish is being raffled off to help raise money to rebuild trails destroyed by the LA fires. Topeak has a new high-flow tubeless valve that's claimed to offer a 300% increase in airflow over a Presta valve. I'm fairly certain this is the design developed by Legion that we saw at the Taipei Cycle Show last year.
