LONGTERMERS

PB has the new ‘Shigura’ brake mod up and running on his Haibike Allmtn 6 e-bike this month, splicing an SLX lever onto a Magura caliper. Now the wheels are falling off though, almost literally. Meanwhile, Ben Day switches to flat pedals to try and stop his lower limbs getting tangled up in the Vitus Escarpe, Ben Smith gets beaten up at Bikepark Wales on his Kona Process, and Sean discovers that the Nukeproof Scout’s onestop-shop SLX drivetrain beats a more eclectic approach to speccing a bike