By reputation and by look, the Meta AM 29 is a big, burly, aluminum Enduro World Series crusher. But when we threw a leg over it in the parking lot of Deer Valley Resort, it felt surprisingly conservative. That’s due in part to head angle—which on the Meta is 65.5 degrees—and reach, which is a couple millimeters shy of 470 on the size large we rode. That these numbers would be considered conservative says more about how quickly bike geometry has been changing than about the Commencal itself. Especially because, on the trail, it is not a totally conservative-feeling bike.
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