Mondraker, Spain’s best-known bike brand, arrived on UK shores last year when Silverfish (distributors of RaceFace, Rocky Mountain, e.13, Evoc and more) started bringing them in, and they’ve quickly garnered something of a reputation for well sorted bikes.

This is our pick of the range, and falls in Mondraker’s ‘Enduro’ lineup. It’s the Dune RR and packs 160mm of travel from the Zero Suspension all wrapped up in a sexy looking frame.

The Dune’s aluminium frame using the company’s Stealth tubeset, with each tube a rectangular shape and hydroformed in key places for the best balance of weight and stiffness. Details include a direct mount front mech hanger, replaceable dropouts and 12mm bolt-thru rear axle, a tapered head tube and sealed bearings throughout.

The 160mm rear travel is handled by Mondraker’s proprietary Zero Suspension setup, which is claimed to cancel out pedal and brake feedback so keeping the suspension working all the time. Zero Suspension is used throughout the range, from the shorter travel XC rigs right up to the World Cup downhill bikes.

It works by the rear shock, a Fox RP23 on the Dune RR, being attached top and bottom by short rocker links (kind of similar to Trek’s Full Floater design) and so being compressed from both ends. According to the official Mondraker blurb in front of us, the lower link compresses the rear shock an average of about 35 % of its total length and the upper link approximately 65%.

The Dune RR costs £4699 and is specced with a Fox 36 Float RLC Fit fork, SRAM X0/X9 and Shimano SLX parts, Easton Haven wheels, bars and stem, Kenda Nevegal tyres and Crank Brothers Joplin dropper seatpost.

www.silverfish-uk.com and more info at www.mondraker.com