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    CALIBRE BOSSNUT

    Oct 16, 2019 3 minutes
    Alan Muldoon

    £1,100 / 27.5in / calibrebicycles.com

    Game-changing is a term that’s overused, especially when it’s used to describe products or ideas that are simply updated versions of what came before... hardly game-changing at all then.

    Take the latest version of the Calibre Bossnut for example. It’s seen a raft of revisions to the geometry, tubing profiles and specification, all of which we’ll dig deeper into in a moment, but it’s hardly a game-changing bike.

    That honour goes to the original Bossnut.

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