About Bike - November 2009 (US):
Bike covers all types of bikes, takes you on wild adventures and helps you out. Bike is the world of motorcycling in one magazine. It includes world exclusives, first looks at the hottest new bikes, informative and in-depth group road tests, and inspiration for your motorcycling trips of a lifetime.

Content issue:
eatures 056 South The South is often reduced to clichés and is generally misunderstood by those who live outside it. But what’s the riding like? That simple question drove us to venture below the Mason- Dixon Line in search of answers. Starting in New Orleans and winding east, we set out to explore one of the country’s most overlooked regions. The quality of the characters we met along the way was matched only by the caliber of trails they showed us. Some were defi antly scratched into swampland, while others were built with church-group labor. We came looking for trails and found an under-exposed mountain bike scene with its own wild and exotic singletrack. Companies turn out new products like trees turn over leaves. Every year, manufacturers take lessons learned from the trail, from local bike shops and from the wish lists of pro riders, and set out designing the latest components and accessories. They’re aiming for the perfect concoction of features and benefi ts, for designs that connect with riders—like SRAM’s all-new XX drivetrain, engineered to be the ultimate XC weapon, or Garmin’s new all-in-one digital riding partner, which comes complete with a 3.2-megapixel camera and a pinpoint-accurate GPS. We polled leading companies for the brightest new products—here are 10 standouts for 2010. 067 gear departments 075 080 084 021 022 032 035 048 052 090 Start Here: Lou Mazzante has the best of times Buzz: Eight pages of photographic grandeur Letters: Brodeos; mountain biking dinosaurs; smelly shoes; sadistic friends; and a visit to some padded cells Splatter: Riding tall in Bellingham; the world’s longest-running mountain bike race; Trek’s secret DH wind-tunnel tests; the Obi-Wan Kenobi of trail building; the legacy of Iron Maiden; and the Upper Peninsula’s singletrack Utopia Ask Chopper: Wise words from mountain biking’s most cantankerous commentator Grimy Handshake: Garage-sale sentimentality The Sh*tbike goes down to Downieville Bike Test: Bionicon Golden Willow SC ][ , Ibis Tranny, Jamis XAM II, Rocky Mountain Altitude 70 Fresh Produce: Three pages of gear, trail tested on Oregon’s North Umpqua trail Blueprint: Kona’s new Magic Link Cadabra