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Specialized Stumpjumper 15 Long-Term Review: The Trail-Taming Classic Reimagined

Specialized updates its iconic trail platform with the Stumpjumper 15, combining new suspension tech, adjustable geometry, and trail-ready refinement

Mar 27, 2025

If you want a platform to keep your stable small and something to cover virtually all of your bases, the Stumpjumper 15 might be the ticket.
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Long-Term Review: Giant Trance X Advanced – Advanced Performance on Every Trail

It feels like a true trail bike through and through, and thrives on flowy trails, jumps, and lighter tech

Mar 19, 2025

Now, with 140mm of rear travel and the same 150mm fork, Giant’s new mid-travel platform packs multiple points of adjustability into a durable and capable all-mountain machine.
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Norco Optic Long-Term Review – Short-Travel, High-Pivot Trail Smasher Tested

Norco did not throw the baby out with the bathwater on the new Optic.

Mar 12, 2025

If you live for technical descents but need to do a lot of equally challenging climbing to get there, the Optic is a clear choice for being on the short list of options.
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Ari Wire Peak 2.0 eMTB Long-Term Review – Affordable Electric Trail Fun

Ari has given the 29-inch-wheel Wire Peak ebike a revamp and “2.0” designation with a long list of updates and spec changes

Mar 6, 2025

It has a smart spec that with a little tweak can be great, but perhaps the best part of all is that you don’t have to take a second mortgage out on the house to get a great electric-assist mountain bike.
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Haro Saguaro 2 Long-Term Review – The Fun-Focused Hardtail

Haro bills the Saguaro as a versatile hardtail that isn’t afraid to get rowdy if it needs to

Feb 25, 2025

Haro’s latest aluminum hardtail offering is billed as being “simple, slack and full-on fun,” and the frame’s geometry certainly reflects its downhill-oriented ethos.
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Video: Testing the Rocky Mountain Element Carbon 70

A Versatile Trail Machine for Climbs and Descents

Feb 14, 2025

The Rocky Mountain Element Carbon 70 is built for riders who want a bike that climbs efficiently, descends with confidence, and delivers a playful, responsive ride.
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Yeti SB165 Long-Term Review – Not for Racing Only

Yeti’s latest take on the SB165 platform sees it gain a 29-inch front wheel, making it the brand’s first dedicated mixed-wheel bike.

Feb 11, 2025

The new SB165 receives several significant updates, but one thing that hasn’t changed is its appetite for gravity and the steeper side of riding.
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VIDEO: Specialized Status 2 170 Review

An all-around fun bike with a great price.

Feb 4, 2025

Built to be ridden anywhere and withstand abuse, the Specialized Status 2 170 was a bike that we were very excited to test. We had a hunch that this would be a great bike for ripping park laps, but we really wanted to know how it performed…
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Pivot Trailcat Review – A Vision of Trail Bike Excellence

Two versions of Pivot's all-new Trailcat make it a trail bike for any rider

Feb 4, 2025

The Trailcat is a trail bike that’s designed for everything from long climbs to technical singletrack descents.
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YETI CYCLES ASR LONG TERM REVIEW – CALL IT A CROSS-COUNTRY COMEBACK

Yeti's ASR cross-country bike goes back to its flex-stay, gram-counting heritage and pushes the brand back into the forefront of modern XC racing

Jan 22, 2025

Once again, the ASR is pushing geometry and weight boundaries that match up perfectly with the trajectory of modern cross-country racecourses.
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REVEL RASCAL V2 LONG TERM REVIEW – A VISION OF TRAIL BIKE VERSATILITY

Built for the mountain biker who want to ride a bit of everything with confidence

Jan 14, 2025

The bike is best suited to the rider who sees a lot of elevation on a day-to-day basis riding trails that range from flow to moderate tech or even light enduro and downhill if ridden in moderation.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: NORCO RANGE VLT E-MOUNTAIN BIKE – THE EDITOR’S CHOICE

All the travel, all the power, all the range

Jan 7, 2025

It’s the kind of bike that makes you want to smash your favorite downhill trail into oblivion, but the bonus is getting to have a lot of fun on the way up, too.
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TRAIL BIKE VS. FAT BIKE SHOOTOUT

Check out our 2015 Shootout between the KHS 4 Season 3000 and the KHS SixFifty 2500, which appeared on our website in January of 2015

Jan 7, 2025

To Keep it Slim or Go Fat
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LONG TERM REVIEW: ROCKY MOUNTAIN ALTITUDE – REACHING NEW ELEVATIONS IN ENDURO PERFORMANCE

Rocky Mountain's redesigned enduro mountain bike is more capable than ever

Jan 2, 2025

From our first test ride, the new Altitude felt like a true race bike, but not one that was confined to the tape.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: TRANSITION SPUR – MINIMIZED EFFORT FOR MAXIMUM TRAIL EXPERIENCE

The mountain bike that blurs the lines between trail and cross country categories more than most

Dec 18, 2024

Transition’s lightness, both in feel and on the scales, makes for a bike that can be pedaled farther and pointed down gnarly lines with fresh legs, thanks to the overall efficiency.
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: 20 YEARS AGO

Check out our cover from December 2004

Dec 11, 2024

Our cover from December of 2004 featured one of the latest bikes from Marin, the Mount Vision Pro. In the lower left photo you can see Mike King leading eventual series champion Eric Carter in the mountaincross race at the 2004 NORBA…
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LONG TERM REVIEW: SPECIALIZED S-WORKS EPIC 8 – THE EVOLUTION CONTINUES

Arguably the best-known cross country race mountain bike of all time sees a major redesign

Dec 12, 2024

The result is a single-frame design that, depending on the components added, can be either a competitive XC racing rig or a confident trail bike that is ready for anything thrown its way.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: SCOR 2030 – THE TRAIL BIKE THAT TRULY PUNCHES ABOVE ITS CLASS

The younger brother to Score's 4060 trail bike really packs a punch for a short travel trail bike

Dec 2, 2024

On paper it sounds like an ordinary trail bike, but the enduro-inspired geometry and choice components let this bike earn the cliche and overused therm "punch above its class."
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BIG THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES – YT JEFFSY PRIMUS JUNIOR REVIEW

A cutting edge full suspension mountain bike for kids

Nov 20, 2024

With a value spec of workhorse components, and putting higher-end components where it matters, this is a hard package to beat.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: PIVOT SWITCHBLADE – A SHARPER TRAIL WEAPON

Pivot's refined third generation Switchblade builds upon the platform that made it one of the best trail mountain bikes

Nov 12, 2024

From fast-paced, flowy trail rides with lots of climbing to well-traveled, beat-up, chunky steep descents, the V3 Switchblade pushes the fun factor a bit farther out on both sides of the all-mountain spectrum.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: CANFIELD’S TILT PRO OFFERS TIMELESS TRAIL EXCELLENCE

This verstaile aluminum all mountain machine checks a lot of the boxes

Oct 30, 2024

We wouldn’t think twice about taking the Tilt out on an all-day epic with thousands of feet of climbing and hours in the saddle, yet we would also pick it for a day in the bike park.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: TRANSITION REPEATER POWERTRAIN CARBON – WE BROKE SRAM’S MOTOR!

Shifting technology raises the E-mountain bike bar

Oct 25, 2024

The travel has been bumped up to 170mm front and rear on this second-generation machine, as well as longer and slacker geometry numbers and revised suspension kinematics to make it even more capable.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: CANYON SPECTRAL CF 8 CLLCTV – BROADENING THE SPECTRUM

The new Spectral trail bike enhances the model's capabilities even further

Oct 16, 2024

It’s a bike that wants to climb and descend in just about any creative way you can imagine, aside from professional-level enduro racing, and is a versatile platform that can cater to a wide range of riders.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: CANNONDALE MOTERRA NEO LT – THE LONG-TRAVEL ELECTRIC JOYRIDE

A big mountain ebike with all the range, all the power and all the suspension travel

Oct 9, 2024

Even though the Moterra Neo LT is a long-travel, enduro-focused bike, it comes with versatility that makes it a great all-arounder.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: GASGAS ECC 6 – THE MOTOCROSS INFUSED EBIKE

GasGas brings motocross suspension technology to the electric mountain bike

Oct 2, 2024

This SRAM powertrain-driven eMTB is more than just a 29-inch-wheel, 160mm-travel trail smasher; it brings cone-valve technology from the brand’s motocross division for the very first time on a mountain bike.
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EXPLORE THE POWER OF THE FANTIC RAMPAGE 1.4 FACTORY E-BIKE

The lighter side of ebikes

Sep 25, 2024

EXPLORE THE POWER OF THE FANTIC RAMPAGE 1.4 FACTORY E-BIKE Italian brand Fantic’s roots run deep in off-road motorcycles, but it’s making a splash in mountain biking with its full line of e-bikes. We got the chance to test the Fantic…
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LONG-TERM REVIEW: CHROMAG LOWDOWN G2 – LONG, LOW, BUT DIFFERENT

A long-travel steel full-suspension mountain bike that defies the status quo

Sep 18, 2024

From a company historically known more for sturdy and slack steel hardtails, this steel/alloy full-suspension option is one worth eyeing for the chromoly connoisseur.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: SAGE POWERLINE V3 TITANIUM HARDTAIL

The fast and the furious

Sep 11, 2024

We loved how versatile and capable the bike was, but bikes have quickly evolved in the last few years, so Sage adapted the Powerline to not just stay ahead of the curve but set the bar.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: YETI SB120 – BLURING THE LINES OF CROSS COUNTRY AND TRAIL MOUNTAIN BIKES

The prefect mix of fun and fast?

Sep 3, 2024

Efficiency was built into this bike’s DNA, which was apparent as soon as we swung our leg over the top tube.
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LONG TERM REVIEW: SPECIALIZED S-WORKS TURBO LEVO SL LIGHTWEIGHT ELECTRIC MOUNTAIN BIKE

The ebike with a traditional feel and electric power

Aug 27, 2024

Simply put, they took all the positives of the Stumpjumper platform and added a motor to make this an extremely versatile all-mountain machine.
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