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August 29, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

Bike Check: Ryan Standish’s Merida Ninety Six

Ryan Standish Merida MarathonMTB Bike Check

This Merida Ninety Six was photographed on location on the Mongolian steppe by Alex Malone from Cyclist. The whole bike shot is noticeably different as it’s clean! This was taken in Park City by Ryan. Ryan Standish is an American bike racer who has grown up on the rocky and spikey trails of Alice Springs, […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: BIke Check, Fox suspension, Knight composites, MarathonMTB, Merida, Merida ninety Six, Mongolia BIke, Ryan Standish, Schwalbe Tyres, sram eagle

June 26, 2018 By Mike Blewitt Leave a Comment

8 things you should know about the new Canyon Lux

Canyon Lux Alban Lakata

A few months ago we put together a feature on what we could pick up from phots of the new bike Canyon team riders were on. But we still had questions. What was the geometry? What was the travel? The weight? Canyon have just released all that information. There are 6 models of the all-new […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: alban lakata, bikes, Canyon, canyon lux, marathon, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, outside, Shimano XTR, sram eagle

February 28, 2018 By MarathonMTB Leave a Comment

How can SRAM Eagle eTap change mountain biking?

SRAM Eagle etap wireless mountain bike

Numerous images have been spread across the internet in recent days of Nino Schurter, and other riders, testing parts for SRAM. By all appearances, it looks like SRAM’s 12-speed Eagle group set has gone wireless, much like their eTap group sets on the road. Having heard from a SRAM employee in late 2014 that they […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: MarathonMTB, mountain bike, nino schurter, sram eagle, SRAM etap, wireless

March 7, 2017 By Mike Blewitt 2 Comments

Bike Check: Peta Mullens’ Focus O1E

On the last weekend of February, Peta Mullens pulled on her new Focus-Attaquer MTB kit and raced on the dirt for the first time in months, aboard her new Focus O1E. Although Mullens has a number of mountain bike national titles to her name, her summer had consisted of road racing until she lined up […]

Filed Under: Tech Tagged With: Bike, BIke Check, cross country, focus, Focus o1e, MarathonMTB, mountain bike, Peta Mullens, SRAM, sram eagle, XCM

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