£8,999 • 29in • boldcycles.com
NEED TO KNOW
● Bold’s enduro bike gets a redesigned frame, with hidden horizontal Fox Float X shock
● Frame travel has been increased to 160mm and paired with a 170mm-travel fork
● 29in wheels on L and XL sizes, mullet for S and M
● Increased standover height, with longer dropper posts on all sizes
● Clean lines, thanks to Syncros Hixon one-piece bar/stem and SRAM AXS shifting
● Two models: Pro with Fox fork and Ultimate with Öhlins, or a frame, shock and bar/stem only option for £5,999
● Down-tube storage with a Save the Day tube/pump/tool wrap
When 29ers first started to appear they looked plain wrong – malproportioned machines with crappy head angles and sky-high frames. And to be fair, those early models were worse to ride than they looked. Today, the opposite is true: 26in-wheel bikes look bizarre, they’re almost exclusively for kids now, and it’s incredible to believe we ever rode them. And survived.
My point is that what you
