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Polygon are best known for their value-oriented range of mountain bikes, especially their Siskiu line up. You would be hard pressed to head to the trails on the weekend and not see someone aboard a Siskiu of one type or another with a grin as wide as their handlebars. Polygon have worked to bring a wide range of very capable mountain bikes to market at prices to work with just about any budget. Of course, their range is much broader than just trail and all-mountain bikes, and Polygon have a popular range of road bikes, gravel bikes and some hard-hitting gravity bikes as well.
The Polygon Bend has long been a well-regarded gravel bike, but earlier this year I heard there was a new model in the works. Gravel sure has had a bit of a buzz around it of late, and the demands of what a gravel bike should be capable of, and therefore what the features are, has been evolving. In late July, Polygon released three new Bend gravel bikes, starting with the $2299 Bend R7, and going up to the $5299 Bend V9X we have on test. This one is the top model, but built on the same
