Looking for a complete slope style bike that offers performance and mad steeze? Look no further, the trend setting, chrome ball burnished, 2010 Kona Bass slope style and dirt jump bike dishes up a very aesthetically pleasing design and colour, while setting the bar for slope style bikes.

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The makers of the upcoming film, Life Cycles, stopped by Pinkbike HQ yesterday to give us a private showing of their soon to be released masterpiece. Inside you can read our thoughts on the movie and have a look at some actual film-camera images from the film!

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WTB’s Silverado saddle has proven to be a popular choice amongst its intended cross-country / all mountain riding audience, but it’s also pretty common to see the seat attached to weight-conscious downhill and freeride rigs. Pinkbike.com received a few of these saddles for test purposes in January and I’ve been putting one of the samples through its paces since then to provide y’all with the longer-term lowdown on the SL55.

Review inside,

Commencal's mean green machine is ready to rumble. With a slack and adjustable head angle, chain guide tabs, and a carbon fiber swing arm, it's one trick speed machine. But does it all come together on the trail where it counts? Keep reading to find out how the 160 mm travel Meta 6 VIP performed. Great riding video inside as well!

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DH World Cup Champery Results.
Men: 1 ATHERTON Gee, 2 MINNAAR Greg, 3 FAIRCLOUGH Brendan
Women: 1 RAGOT Emmeline, 2 JONNIER Sabrina, 3 NICOLE Myriam

Full results and times inside.

Some action from the world cup qualifying in Champery.

Video inside,

Munich, Germany, July 23rd, 2010 – Almost 60 riders from 13 countries joined the GO BIG OR GO HOME contest at the BIKE EXPO tradeshow in Munich. The open pre qualifying event promised ten set rider places at the BIG IN BAVARIA Vol.II dirt jump competition. The TOP6 riders of the GO BIG OR GO HOME were Jakub Vencl (1st/CZE), Thomas Genon (2nd/BEL), Simon Kirchmann (3rd/GER), Bartek Obukowicz (4th/POL), Daniel Madzia (5th/AUT) and Mehdi Gani (6th/FRA).

The Dueler shock from Diverse Suspension is a bit of an anomaly in the world of mountain bikes. Not only is it fully user tunable with all parts and shims available directly from Diverse for easy custom valving, but it also has a starting price of only $389 USD including a titanium spring! Inside you can read up on what we thought of this impressively priced shock and how it held up throughout the test.

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As 2011 bikes start to show up there's been some noise made about the new 12 x 142 mm rear axle spacing that many seem to be sporting, even the short travel XC bikes! There has been some confusion as to how we ended up with those numbers, as well as if the system makes any sense at all. Inside we take a closer look at the 'in between' standard and separate the wheat from the chaff to figure out if it makes any sense. Watch the video, read the facts, and then decide for yourself.

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CR1 Engineering brings a level of suspension performance that is hard to come by in the mountain bike world. Not only do they offer full custom tuning for rear shocks, but they also have fully sealed fork cartridges to fit both Boxxer's and Marzocchi 888 forks. Inside you can read about how the CR1 Boxxer cartridge performed for us over the last eight months that we've been using it and you'll also find a great riding video as well.

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Drift Innovations recently announced the release of their new HD170 helmet camera. You may have seen the original X170 around - it's hard to miss with its bright orange casing. The X170 was a good offering for first time users on a budget, but it lacked some features that higher end users wanted. The new HD170 has been designed to meet these requirements and then some. New features like HD video, digital zoom, night mode and a good rechargeable battery are welcome additions to the wireless remote control and colour LCD screen found on the X170.

Read the initial review inside:

Sunday, July 18

It’s the final day of the U.S. Cycling National Championships. The only event of the day on the gravity side is Pro Men and Cat. 1 (17-18 ) Downhill finals and Pro Woman Downhill finals.

Pics and details inside,

Whether it was the Burgers, Chorizo, Roast Beef or Frankfurters that tickled your fancy over the course the week in the end it was the trusty French Frog that came in as the dish of the day…

Zut Alors! The top spot in the Nike 6.0 Standby Barcelona is - TEAM FRANCE.

German company Acros joins the pedal war with their high end A-Flat pedals. The new pedals feature a larger than average platform and use a combination of allen head and set screws to keep your feet in place. Inside you can see all the specs and pictures, as well as find out how we got on with them!

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It’s that time of year again, change around time. The magazines are bombarded with press releases as the big guys churn out their latest bikes. Whether the changes are important is sometimes difficult to say, but we’ve seen so many clever acronyms, buzz words and so much sales jargon it’s easy to gloss over genuine improvements and reject the hype. So when MBR and Orange wanted to take a different approach I was completely up for seeing how things could be done. MBR’s plan was simple, get the scoop on one of the UK’s most popular trail bikes, and Orange got some video to throw at the internet massif. Yes, they’ll be doing the whole press release deal come today’s official ‘launch’, but if pictures say a thousand words, video…well, video rocks...

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