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Giant's versatile Trance X was bound to get a big-wheel makeover, and the company took pains to ensure it still competes in the trail category. To that end, there's clearance to spare around the voluminous Schwalbe tires, the chainstays remain a reasonable 17.8 inches, and the standover is even lower than on the 26er TranceX. Uninterrupted, internal cable housing is becoming de rigueur on all-condition bikes, but..

First, we'll admit, this "Kona House of the Big Wheel 3" video is a glorified commercial. But considering the impressive aerial shots taken from a helicopter, the beautiful scenery of the Selkirk Mountains above Revelstoke, British Columbia, and the singletrack cross-country riding during "the fading days of a long Indian summer," it's definitely worth a look. And anyway, the real commercial doesn't reveal itself until around the 2:00 mark, so there is plenty to enjoy:

The..

Sinamatella Productions is a relatively new production company based out of South Africa that attempts to use vivid imagery to encourage people to get outside. As such, they've released their latest film project, "Kunye," which juxtaposes the 2012 Single Speed World Championships, which was held in Africa (South Africa) for the first time in history last year, with the story of South Africa itself. The film, which runs about six minutes, is inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem "Little..

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Bike magazine correspondent Seb Kemp is currently on an assignment that is aptly titled "The Escape," as he's riding 400 miles through bountiful British Columbia by circumnavigating the Georgia Strait and "stopping off in Squamish, Sunshine Coast, Powell River, Cumberland, Hornby Island, Parksville, Duncan, and Saturna Island," he wrote.

The journey, which is being..

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There is a peculiar granite rock formation in the middle of Western Australia's Hyden Wildlife Park that looks like a multi-colored wave, frozen in time.

The wave, known as "Wave Rock," apparently called to Australian BMX rider Danny Campbell, who recently released a video of him mastering it. Like most skilled BMX riders, he makes conquering the 47-foot formation look easy, but the riding was more difficult than it appears,..

Extreme mountain biking is crazy enough, but take away one wheel and what are you left with? Extreme mountain unicycling, or put another way, extreme craziness. We've seen mountain unicycling, aka muni, but not the extreme version. We wonder just how popular it could become, based on this video, particularly the part where the unicycle goes tumbling down the mountain without its rider. Watch two German unicyclists as they go extreme:

The two crazies are Lutz Eichholz and Stephanie..