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Guy Kesteven

5 things a lifetime of bike testing has taught me about how to upgrade your MTB

A man doing an air on a mountain bike.

He's tested a ton of kit that could turn your current mountain bike into your dream ride, but how do you decide which kit to buy, or whether you even need it all? Here’s what forty years of riding over a quarter of a century of professional kit testing has taught our reviewer-in-chief, Guy Kesteven, about MTB upgrading.

1. Do you really need new?

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