Just a few days after we learned of sweeping updates to the Meta TR 29, our inboxes lit up with another piece of news. The Commencal Meta HT AM, Commencal’s aggressive hardtail, was getting a refresh. Scrolling down to the geometry chart, I went straight to the most exciting numbers. Reach, head angle and seat tube angle. Will the large be 500 and the XL be 525? Will it get the head angle of a downhill race bike? The Meta TR 29 we saw released a few days ago appears to have gotten a seat tube angle from the future, so the Meta HT AM must be the same. Are we gonna see a crazy 78-degree seat tube angle on a hardtail?

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