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Canfield seems like an awesome company that has quietly been making awesome products for a long while now. They're in my neighborhood now (PNW), so I'm looking forward to a trip up to their HQ to demo a couple bikes in the next month or two.

Review by Fred Robinson // Photos by Josh Job (action) and Fred Robinson Hailing from the mountain bike mecca that is Squamish, B.C., OneUp Components has been churning out truly unique and innovative drivetrain components and upgrades for a number of years now. Replacement derailleur cages said to improve shifting performance, expander sprockets that increase the range of your stock cassette, and some elegantly simple and well-thought-out chainguides have come from the small team at OneUp. Their creations are inspired by what they’d like to see on their personal bikes. Recently, OneUp gave us the chance to spin on one...

Perhaps we should start at the beginning: why a hardtail? Just the other day, my Nimble 9 was resting against a fence alongside my friend's 6" full-sus über bike. I considered them a while. The fully, hewn in fibres and decked out with state of the art gear, made the Nimble 9 look positively agricultural. Every point was a juxtaposition. His bike was plastic, mine steel. His aesthetic was stealthy black, mine modelled on some sort of exotic gutter slime. His tyre choice made sense together, mine was whatever chewed out tread I'd dragged out of the shed to give...