”A marathon bike made to rip it up,” is how Spot describes the 115mm-travel Ryve that I’ve been riding for the past few months. The 29″ wheeled and very, very red Ryve can also be had in a 100mm-travel flavor to be used as a pure race rig, but my slacker and more forgiving version is more race-lite; it still only weighs 24.7lb, but gets a 120mm Fox 34 Step-Cast (the race bike has a 100mm 32 Step-Cast) fork that relaxes the head angle a full degree.
My test bike has the appropriately named “6-Star XTR Build Kit” that comes with, well, a bunch of fancy XTR components. Six stars are the most stars, so you’ll also find a set of ENVE’s lightweight M525 rims with Industry Nine Hydra hubs at the center. The rear one is very buzzy, which I love, and it all adds up to a price tag is $7,599 USD, which not many people are going to love.
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