NS Bikes isn’t a company synonymous with cross-country, but its new Synonym represents a serious investment into the category and illustrates the growth of a brand that started out making handlebars for freeride bikes.
The Synonym is an XC rig that comes in two flavours: the RC, short for race, packs 100mm of travel, while the TR on test here, short for trail, boosts travel to 120mm for a bit more shredding capability if you’re not into pulling on spandex and pinning on a number.
Both bikes share a smart carbon frame and swingarm, par for the course on XC bikes, but it’s the geometry that sets this bike apart. Borrowing heavily from its burlier bikes, this is an XC rig with geometry that lives up to the oft used progressive tag and is enough to embarrass many longer travel trail bikes.
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