Dirt Mountain Biking

Complete Bikes

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• • Dirt 100 2010: BLACK MARKET RIOT

  • December 17th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 5

  • Black Market have excelled in producing such a well finished bike and frameset at
    this price point, it has most of the features of the more expensive Mob frameset but
    uses a cheaper, but still high quality, tubeset. All the details are …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: DMR TRANSITION

  • December 16th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 1

  • DMR are one of the founders of the steel mountain bike jump frame with their classic Trailstar model.
    The dirt scene, trails and mountain bikes, have all come a long way from those early days, but DMR
    have kept things real, with …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: CHARGE BLENDER

  • December 15th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 8

  • Why do we like the Blender so much? Well because it is the perfect do–it–all hardtail…a brilliant woods bike. Hit berms, jumps and drops with confidence, put some XC miles in or hit the trails, all on the same bike. …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: CANNONDALE RUSH

  • December 11th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 3

  • Now we don’t all live in the mountainous areas of the UK – Wales or Scotland. For the vast majority of us that don’t, the Rush could just be the perfect bike. It’s agile, fast and handles superbly thanks to …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: LAPIERRE ZESTY 714

  • December 10th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 4

  • Lapierre has made a pretty significant impact on the UK market, and no model more so than the Zesty. They have been spotted all over the UK ripping apart trail centres and it comes as no big surprise when you …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: ORANGE FIVE

  • December 9th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 6

  • Amazing – it’s probably the simplest way to sum the Orange Five up, it’s the bike that every company wants in their range, but so few can get near to. The bike has been tweaked and refined over the past …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: GARY FISHER ROSCOE

  • December 8th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 2

  • An unfamiliar addition to the Dirt 100 you may think, Gary Fisher typically hasn’t been a brand that you would associate with the pages of Dirt – (well not since Michael Ronning rode World Cups on one in the 90’s), …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: ORANGE ALPINE 160

  • December 7th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 0

  • Some people raised the question ‘why’ when Orange announced they were pulling the Patriot out of their range. Looking at the replacement, the Alpine 160, again some people commented that this was just a beefed up Five? Again Orange silenced …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: TRAIL 160MM TREK REMEDY

  • December 5th, 2009 @ 3:15 PM | 5

  • The Trek Remedy for 2010 is pretty dialled. It has been refined since its introduction to the market a few years ago. It descends with confidence yet retains its ability to whip along singletrack and go uphill like a bike …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: SPECIALIZED PITCH

  • December 4th, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 1

  • Since we featured this bike in last year’s guide I have witnessed it climb hills that I have failed on before, ridden down insane slopes and hills in Italy that I couldn’t walk down and dealt with all manner of …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: SPECIALIZED SX TRAIL

  • December 3rd, 2009 @ 9:30 AM | 4

  • The SX trail has long been a favourite of the Dirt staff, perfectly balanced with a low centre of gravity and aggressive geometry, it inspires you to throw it into corners and whip it out over jumps and crests with …

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• • Dirt 100 2010: MONDRAKER KAISER

  • December 2nd, 2009 @ 9:29 AM | 2

  • The Kaiser was a familiar sight on the UCI World Cup circuit over the past two seasons with the Subaru Mondraker World Cup team on board it up until it was superseded by the Summum. The knock on effect of …

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• • 2010 Dirt 100 K–9 DH001–S

  • November 27th, 2009 @ 11:44 AM | 32

  • The sheer amount of research and development that Luis Arraiz and his team have put into this bike has meant that no stone has been left unturned. What you are looking at here is a full factory set-up at a …

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• • 2010 Dirt 100 TRANSITION TR 450

  • November 24th, 2009 @ 3:51 PM | 13

  • The TR450 is Washington State based, and company Transition’s first foray into the long travel market. Impressively they have managed to step straight up to the mark with this downhill bike whereas most companies take a few years of development …

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• • 2010 Dirt 100 SPECIALIZED DEMO 8 II

  • November 13th, 2009 @ 3:43 PM | 15

  • On his day Sam Hill is the fastest man to have ever swung his leg over a downhill bike – without question. So is it all down to the rider? Well not entirely, Sam is pretty switched on when it …

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• • 2010 Dirt 100 Orange 224

  • November 12th, 2009 @ 1:33 PM | 13

  • What hasn’t been said about Orange’s simple single pivot design? Over many years it has been well and truly proven, and short of reeling off the usual list of superlatives you can rest safe in the knowledge that the 224 …

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• • 2010 Dirt 100 Trek Session 88

  • November 11th, 2009 @ 3:41 PM | 16

  • Some people would say that Trek have come out of nowhere to produce this high spec performance machine. Others with their finger on the pulse will have recognised the improvements in their trail bike range over the last couple of …

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