Earlier this year we went out to Andorra to ride with Commencal and try out the company’s latest offering in the Meta All-Mountain range. The Meta platform has been around for a couple of years now but for 2014 it appears to have all the bases covered, not least in the wheel size spectrum.

The 650b version is the latest addition and also arguably the most versatile of all the Metas and, we reckon, the fastest. In this edit, Gwen Fouche proves just that as he tears the mountains apart on his Meta AM. Although the film shoot didn’t exactly end in the best of ways, as you’ll find out…

Click here to find out about the bikes and our time on them in Andorra