SPOT RYVE 115 REVIEW – THE SPICY SIDE OF CROSS COUNTRY

Spot started as a small Canadian brand focused on single speeds but changed course when it was acquired by the Lumpkin family in 2009 and moved to Golden Colorado. If the Lumpkin name sounds familiar it should because Wayne Lumpkin founded Avid – the brake brand that was sold to SRAM. After developing the Center Drive belt technology that they later sold to Gates (now called Gates Carbon Drive) and dabbling in commuter bikes, the Lumpkins turned their focus to mountain bikes and the innovation of their patented Living Link suspension system. This dual-link system relies on a rather unique leaf spring for one of its pivots and is a system that the wrecking crew has historically been quite fond of. Spot’s latest bike is a second-generation Ryve 115 cross-country bike with a long list of updates that put it at the forefront of this category’s rapid evolution.