Today is the day Transition unveils their new Sentinel. The short version of the changes they made to their mid-travel 29″ trail bike reads like this: 10mm more travel, slightly slacker at the head tube, slightly steeper at the seat tube, 5mm longer chain stays, increased tire clearance, and, it won’t take you long to notice, a revised visual ID that looks less like the swoopy organic shapes many brands have been favouring, and more angular and stealth-fighterish.

I’ve been riding a brand new Sentinel for the past little while, and will share some early observations and comparisons with the prior generation Sentinel, the parts from which I stripped and moved over to the new frame.

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