Spring 2019 Mountain Bike Reviews – 9 Recent and Upcoming Tests
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Matt, Gerow, and Jeff talk about recent, current, and future mountain bike review tests. We share impressions and thoughts on the following bikes:
* GT Force
* Ancillotti Scarab Evo 29
* Ibis Ripley
* Salsa Spearfish
* Orbea Rallon
* Orange P7
* Fezzari Signal Peak
* Cannondale Jekyll 29
* Diamondback SyncR carbon
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| 0:30.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Joe Roe and Matt and I |
| 0:36.5 | are going to be talking about some of the mountain |
| 0:38.7 | bikes that we're currently reviewing and some of the bikes that we're going to be reviewing. |
| 0:43.5 | So before we get started, I want to just talk briefly about how we pick the bikes that we end up |
| 0:49.7 | reviewing, you know, how all that comes together and just ask you guys, what kind of bikes are you |
| 0:54.9 | guys into right now? How are you finding bikes to review? I think it's definitely like looking at |
| 1:01.8 | what, what is out that's new right now, doesn't have a lot of reviews. What are people going to be |
| 1:06.8 | into? And also, what do we like to write? Because there there's there's a lot out there that we can |
| 1:12.5 | sort of pick what we enjoy as long as it's something that you know readers are going to be into |
| 1:17.8 | right yeah no e-bike reviews for us right now yeah the readers I mean a lot of you are |
| 1:24.9 | interested in them a lot of our podcast listeners are |
| 1:27.6 | interested in them as well. But yeah, it's still not the kind of thing where we feel like |
| 1:32.6 | the majority of the audience is going to be interested in that. Yeah, it would be, it would |
| 1:37.2 | quickly divide much of the people just like anytime we talk about e-bikes already does. |
| 1:43.7 | Yep. Yep. Yeah, for sure. I also think about what bikes are going to work well on the trails I ride. There are a lot of really cool cross-country bikes that I'd love to test, but nearby I don't have a lot of trails where I could ride them. So I could ride them, but they're just not the greatest testing grounds for cross-country bikes. Yeah. That's certainly a |
| 2:01.9 | factor. It's the longer travel works better for you, Jero. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, one 40 and up, I would say, |
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