Conclusion

That wraps up our 2022 Hardtail of Year test. And while it wasn’t the bumper harvest that we normally deliver, we were lucky enough to get the cream of the current hardtail crop.

In the direct-sales category, the test was the most hotly contested to date. Hardly surprising when you have two hardtail titans go toe to toe. In the ring, both bikes had slightly different approaches: the Vitus