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Progress is relentless and for 2021 Whyte has turned up the 29er heat once again with the Whyte G-180. 167mm rear travel married to 180mm RockShox Zeb fork.
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Product: Whyte G-180 Works 29er V1 review
£5,150.00
The Whyte G-170 was a benchmark long-travel 29er. With slack angles, a ground-hugging BB and plush suspension, it was a formidable enduro race machine. The biggest changes found on the Whyte G-180 though are to the frame itself. Gone is the carbon monocoque front end, replaced instead by a 6061 alloy construction that’s used across the two-bike 29er range.
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The latest issue of MBR is out now, packed full of inspiring ideas and routes to help you find new places to get out and ride. Here’s what you’ll find inside…
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THE RANGE OF THE AWFUL HAND, SCOTLAND
Doesn’t sound great, does it? The Range of the Awful Hand is almost certainly somewhere you’ve never heard of; we hadn’t either, and that’s precisely why we headed there last summer for an adventure. Lockdown has narrowed our horizons, forced us to ride closer to home, in isolation, which makes it more important than ever to head to pastures new when we can. Will this strange and unknown mountain range in Scotland prove as awful as it sounds? Time to find out…
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Nukeproof pushes the boundaries of the enduro bike with its new 180mm travel Giga. Is it a sign of modern excess, or proof you can never have too much of a good thing?
Nukeproof Giga Credit: Roo Fowler
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A monster truck with genuine versatility. Slick array of details and features. Excellent spec for the money.
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Product: Nukeproof Giga 290 Carbon Factory: first ride review
£5,499.00
For when mega just isn’t enough, Nukeproof presents the Giga – a 180mm travel ‘super-enduro’ bike. But is it 1,000 times better? We find out.
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Available with a carbon frame and either 27.5in or 29in wheels
Nukeproof unveils the Giga, its all-new âsuper enduroâ bike The Giga is Nukeproofâs longest travel trail bike to date, but is it destined to tread on the toes of its very successful Mega enduro bike?
January 27, 2021 at 9:00 am
Nukeproofâs new Giga is the brandâs take on a âsuper enduroâ bike, and is inspired by its current Mega enduro machine and Dissent downhill bike. Look closely and it doesnât take long to see just how the two bikes have morphed into what you see here.
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The roots of the Giga actually stem from way back in 2013, when Nukeproof created a one-off Mega for the Chain Reaction/Nukeproof Team with increased travel and more aggressive geometry to take on the downhill World Championships in South Africa (race footage suggests Sam Hill actually raced the Pulse DH bike in the end, but sadly crashed out in spectacular style).
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Bike parks, super enduro races and just plain sending it; new Nukeproof Giga aims to sate the appetite of the greediest gluttons. Nukeproof goes super-size!
Nukeproof Giga
The Nukeproof Giga adjustable pivot that lets you tune the progression rate, thus blurring the line between bike park shredder, enduro racer and downhill sled. But if the cry ‘one hundred and eighty!’ seems more appropriate for a game of darts than a pedal-able, agile, multi-tasking, single-crown machine, then Nukeproof is keen to stress that the Giga has been designed and engineered with maximum dynamic range. According to people behind it, this is no point and shoot plow.