We Review 6 Mountain Bikes, From Hardtail to Long-Travel 29er
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Singletracks podcast, Jeff and Matt share their experience with six long term bike reviews completed recently. Get inside info on how Singletracks conducts bike reviews, and hear our extended thoughts on the bikes listed below.
* Pivot Firebird (29er enduro)
* Norco Sight (29er trail bike)
* Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt (alloy trail bike)
* Cannondale Scalpel SE2 (aggressive XC build)
* Marin San Quentin (trail/DJ hardtail)
* Ritchey Ultra (steel trail hardtail)
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:22.7 | My name is Jeff, and today Matt and I are going to be reviewing some mountain bikes for you. |
| 0:28.4 | We're currently testing or have recently wrapped testing on a number of new bikes |
| 0:32.1 | and wanted to share reviews with our podcast listeners. |
| 0:35.8 | Most of these reviews, all of these reviews, |
| 0:37.7 | will at some point be on the website where you can view photos and read a little bit more, |
| 0:44.2 | but we thought it would be good to do a whole podcast episode where we talk about some of these |
| 0:49.1 | long-term bike reviews and maybe give a different side to the review than what we're able to do online. |
| 0:55.8 | So I want to start just by talking about what a long-term bike review is. |
| 1:00.4 | What does that mean to you, Matt? |
| 1:02.0 | I mean, we do a lot of different types of bike reviews. |
| 1:04.8 | Sometimes we'll show up at a demo event or we'll just share a press release. |
| 1:09.4 | But what makes like a long-term bike review different or special to you? |
| 1:13.3 | I think it's really getting it dialed into preference. |
| 1:18.6 | You know, like when we rode this stuff interbike, everything happens really quickly. |
| 1:22.8 | You maybe have a few, I don't know, two or three hours to ride it at the most, which will give you |
| 1:29.0 | like, you know, some decent first impressions here and there. But I mean, I think, I mean, |
| 1:33.8 | obviously it needs more time than that to really get your suspension dialed in, to get your |
| 1:38.3 | cockpit adjusted to where you like it, and to actually get a legit feel for how the bike is. And I think it's different |
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