In terms of proximity to world class trails, Pivot’s Tempe, AZ headquarters rank up there with the best. Hop in a car and you can find amazing rides in just about any direction, but better still – hop on your bike and you’re less than two miles from the South Mountain Trail System. For past Pivot launches we’ve been invited out to famous riding locations like Moab and Grand Junction, but this time, Pivot wanted us a little closer to home.
OK, really close to home. Keeping things family-style in Pivot tradition, we found ourselves in rental houses that you could literally ride straight out the side yard to the South Mountain trails. We were also just a very short drive from Pivot’s headquarters, and subsequently, the future home of Pivot Cycles as well.
So why bring us out to Tempe for the launch of an important new model like the 2020 Switchblade? For starters, it’s warm enough here in January that for those of us that live in colder winter climates, it was a nice break from the weather. More importantly, the trails at South Mountain are no joke. These aren’t just a handful of artificial trails piped in out of necessity. Rather, the established network of trails here are a mix of everything from tame, rolling singletrack, to bike and body-punishing gardens of rock dotted with extremely technical features and lined with every sharp plant you could imagine. In short, it’s the perfect place to test a new full suspension all mountain bike, and it just happens to be in Pivot’s backyard.
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