Mountain Bike Rider

VITUS SOMMET 297 AMP

£4,599.99

The Vitus Sommet has been been around a while and has been refined multiple times already. But the latest Belfast-designed version has had more than just a face lift. The carbon backbone is now significantly beefier and with the addition of the new 297 mullet configuration, Vitus aims to ramp up the nimbleness and add extra clearance for hanging off the back of the bike down the steepest sections of trail.

Using T-700 carbon-fibre, the front triangle’s extra girth should bring extra stiffness for better tracking, but don’t get any ideas of some solid lifeless lump. The carbon/alloy chassis and supple suspension serves up by far the smoothest and most comfortable ride in the rough stuff when compared directly to the two

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