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BEATDOWN

SOMETIMES IT SEEMS LIKE BMX RACING TECHNOLOGY IS stuck in the bronze age. Maybe that’s got something to do with the BMX being an Olympic sport. Advancements we take for granted like tapered steerer tubes, thru-axles and 31.8-millimeter bar-clamp diameters are only just surfacing in the

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