£7,299 • MX or 29in • forbiddenbike.com
needn’t have worried about getting back on the Druid V2 after falling in love with it on a first date… As soon as we launched into a chattery root section and I felt the high-pivot ‘Trifecta’ rear end seemingly catapult me forwards through the normally speed-killing roots, the stoke reignited immediately. A couple