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At Dirtlabs, we approach mountain biking from a suspension perspective, and from that view point, there’s not really a suspension set up specific to women riders. Women shred, we know that. We [...]

Bike parks are having a moment.  There are more than 1,000 bike parks and pump tracks across the United States alone with new ones popping up all the time. In fact, there’s a good chance there’s [...]

The DPX2 has been the latest and greatest release out of Fox and has dominated the medium / high rear shock OEM from Pivot, Transition, Yeti, Santa Cruz, and more. The shock is a complete revamp [...]

Rockshox RCT3 charger damper does a pretty darn good job in their Pike and Lyrik A1 and B1 Models (Prior to the Charger 2) but there is ample room for improvement. In our Charger JB2 Tune [...]

Beginning in 2017 Rockshox released their A2 version Revelation fork that boasts 35mm stanchions and boost spacing chassis with their DebonAir air spring. It has come to our attention that quite [...]

The latest craze in the never-ending shock evolution has been the rear shock trunnion mount. The use of threaded bolts requires a more complex reducer hardware. Dirtlabs has the ability to [...]

We have said it before in our is tuning worth it article : A custom tuned fork damper can elevate performance well beyond that of the stock setup by “shifting the bell curve” and also [...]

The Trek Re:active thru shaft technology has its advantages in terms of transition from compression to rebound. With a designing missing the internal floating piston, IFP, comes some some issues. [...]

Fork travel changes can be confusing. While we won’t go into depth on ride characteristics associated with increasing or decreasing travel here, head tube angle, bottom bracket height, [...]