Summer Mountain Bike Reviews: Salsa, Orbea, Yeti, Viathon, Fezzari, Diamondback
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Gerow, Matt, and Jeff share updates and impressions from recent and upcoming mountain bike tests, from gravel and XC to trail and enduro bikes. Plus, we preview other bikes we’ll be testing and reviewing later this year.
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| 0:00.0 | Something unexpected has arrived in Happy Meal. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Hello Kitty and friends are teaming up for the ultimate collab. |
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| 0:20.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. My name is Jeff and today Jereau and Matt and I are |
| 0:26.5 | going to be talking about some of the mountain bikes that we're reviewing this summer and some of the |
| 0:31.7 | ones that we have coming up. So let's start with some of the long-term tests that we've wrapped up recently. Matt, one of the ones, I think it's probably the most recent that we've published, was the salsa spearfish, which is a cross-country bike, but leaning a little bit toward the trail into the spectrum. Tell us what you thought about that bike. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah, it is. I mean, |
| 0:55.3 | if you were to place into a category, yeah, it'd be cross-country because it's like 100 |
| 1:00.0 | millimeters rear and 120-millimeter fork. But it's probably like a cross-country bike for people |
| 1:06.0 | who really don't care that much about being serious about cross-country. |
| 1:16.4 | Because, yeah, I mean, it's a salsa, and they're not like, they're not a big competitive company or anything like that. And always lean more towards the adventurous side of riding. |
| 1:22.8 | And yeah, I had a blast with it. It was probably one of my favorite review bikes I've had in a long |
| 1:27.8 | time just because it's so much fun to ride. |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah. What makes it sort of different from other bikes or like what are some of the standout |
| 1:34.7 | features? |
| 1:36.1 | I'd say like, I mean, it was just a lot of fun. Like when I think this is just how bikes have |
| 1:42.6 | changed over the past few years. But I don't know, when I was |
| 1:45.9 | getting into mountain biking, like the last thing you would have seen me on is a hundred millimeter |
| 1:49.4 | 29er. Those things are freaking dorky. I'm not touching them. Like, they don't look fun at all. They |
| 1:55.7 | like bikes for, you know, people who want to wear spandex all the time and like just crush their climbing times. |
| 2:04.9 | And like to me the salsa kind of opened up this other side of short travel 29ers to where it's like it's a bike that's really, really fun to climb on. |
| 2:16.0 | The suspension is great on it. |
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