Mountain Bike Rider

VOODOO BRAAG

£550 / 29in / halfords.com

Yeti probably thought it had pulled off a pretty neat engineering feat when it unveiled its first ever e-bike, the E160. After all, that bike’s got a six-bar suspension design, for goodness’ sake. But in its own quiet way, I believe Voodoo has pulled off something just as impressive at the other end of the market in its redesigned Braag hardtail: a fiendishly hard balancing act of performance and cost.

Voodoo has completely reworked its range of hardtails for 2022, with a new frame that’s shared across all the bikes it now sells, where a clever tweak in the head tube length allows for different-travel forks while maintaining the same geometry. It starts

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