Think Marin and you tend to think of the company's nearly ubiquitous full suspension designs.
The 2004 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR is pretty much an all-new bike and fills that lightweight, short travel gap
Dialled Bikes Kobe Ti £699 (frame only) Dialled Bikes Hurrah for the sizable bike manufactories of the Far East. Bike snobs may turn their noses up at Taiwan-made...
For some time now we've been on the receiving end of mysterious communications from a shadowy organisation calling itself "Bikehotrod".
This is the new Dialled Bikes Kobe Ti XC. At this point you're probably thinking, "Dialled Bikes? Who?"
Edge Blade XC £1,099 (frame only, Fox shock); £1,199 (frame only, Fifth Element shock) www.edgebikes.com/ 08707 449362 The Blade XC is the third variant of Edge’s parallelogram-linkage suspension design,...
Bottecchia FX5.7 £775 (limited offer) www.bottecchia.com PCL 0845 458 5222 Bottecchia may not be a familiar name, but the Italian company turns out a range of good-looking road and...
Cotic Soul £400 frame only www.soulsforsale.co.uk With such a variety of bikes out there these days, you’d imagine that everybody would be able to find something to suit...
Muddy Fox are nothing if not resilient. The pioneering brand has disappeared and resurfaced so many times
The Scott G-Zero FX20 is in the "Progressive" range, which equates to all-round bikes with a slight freeridey leaning.
Sheffield's Edge Bikes will launch their all new Blade-DH downhill frame at The Bike Show this weekend.
Fresh out of the box, here's the aggressive-looking Scott G-Zero FX20.
Kona King Kikapu £2,995 The King Kikapu is Kona’s top of the range XCish full suspension bike, sitting about the basic Kikapu and the Kikapu Deluxe. The...
Cove importers Silverfish have released a limited-edition bike built up around a customised Stiffee frame. Called the Stiffee 69er, there’ll be a limited edition run...
Giant XTC NRS3 £950 www.giant-bicycles.com 0115 9775900 With all the brouhaha about new supsension designs like Santa Cruz’s VPP, Marin’s Quad and Specialized’s Epic, it’s easy to forget that...
The Cotic Soul pushes the boundary by being intended for 100mm at a minimum, with 125mm being better...
When we tested the new Pace RC36 Stealth fork we commented on Pace's recommendation not to run disc rotors bigger than 165mm
Specialized Epic Pro £2,299.99 www.specialized.com 01372 840800 After a brief respite, 2003 is looking like the year of suspension innovation. And it’s all combating the old pedal-induced bob chestnut....
Bottecchia Bikes – The finest from Italy have returned to English stores to a rapturous response. These bikes have had had great reviews to date...
Marin Mount Vision Pro £3445 www.marin.co.uk 01424 753566 Marin’s Mount Vision has become almost ubiquitous. And deservedly so. Its simple but effective single-pivot suspension design is well-suited to UK...
Santa Cruz Blur £3105 as tested, £1499 anodised frame only The Blur (and its downhill brother the V10) is something of a departure for Santa Cruz. For...
Suspension bob has always been seen as the enemy. Which is fair enough. The last thing you want is for the big dollops of oomph...
Here's Santa Cruz's long-awaited Blur Virtual Pivot Point full susser, freshly arrived at BIKEmagic
Specialized Hardrock Pro Disc £499.99 www.specialized.com 01372 840800 The Hardrocks are Specialized’s entry level mountain bikes, running from the £249.95 Hardrock Rigid (see how ‘Rigid’ is a USP these...
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