Behind the Numbers is back!
If you’d like to know more about the Behind the Numbers series, aren’t familiar with the terms being used or want to know why the hell we’re doing, this then head back to out our introduction article for that.
We’re also trying to take certain terms and set about explaining them, how they might be analysed and add some food for thought by re-inserting the violently chaotic real world in which we ride back into the analysis. Recently we touched on anti-squat, but look out for more of the Enginerding articles in the future.
But, we’re back for another round of bikes and this time we’re looking at the vast category of trail bikes. There’s quite some discussion as to what a trail bike is. Our recent podcast did just that with differing opinions on the boundaries of trail bike in terms of travel, geometry and bike intent. We’ve tried to take a good sampling of bikes that look a few different takes on that trail bike category with different suspension systems from some of the big names in the industry, different wheel sizes and bikes with hugely varying price tags all up for analysis.
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