PIVOT TRAIL 429
One of US company Pivot's best known bikes, the 120mm travel 429 dually, has been made over for the new age of trail-munching, all-day 29ers. The all-carbon rig offers 120mm of travel - up 4mm - from its Fox Evol-suspended DW Link rear end, matched to a 130mm travel front fork (in our case, a Fox Performance 34). We grabbed Pivot's international sales manager John Pentecost, who was in Australia for the launch, for a bit of a debrief.
MBA: Okay, mate, what’s the deal with the new Trail 429?
The idea is basically we updated the geometry, shortened the chain stays. So, this is a 29er bike with 430mm chain stays, which is really short for a
