Mountain Bike Rider

GEARING REVOLUTION

Geometron is one of the most influential brands in mountain biking. Alongside Mondraker, much of the credit for today’s modern sizing and geometry must surely go to the Forest of Dean-based firm, which for a decade or more told all of us we were riding bikes too darned small. Of course it was right, and the industry and riders slowly crept closer to the geometry charts of Geometron’s now-retired G13, a bike built by Nicolai, but radically slackened and lengthened by Geometron.

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