2021 Holiday Gift Guide – Alchemy Arktos 120
This is one for my Christmas list. The Alchemy Arktos hits the sweet spot for travel for riding around here (though you can’t go wrong with a hardtail either).
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For Your Viewing Pleasure: Alex Howes & Lachlan Morton do the Pikes Peak Apex – on hardtails!
EF Education First adventure cycling pros Alex Howes and Lachlan Morton recently put the new Cannondale Scalpel hardtail through its paces, racing at the Pikes Peak Apex.
Bikes We’d Like to Own: the Cannondale Scalpel HT Hi-Mod
If there is any indication that XC riders are starting to see the light on slacker, more forgiving geometry, it might be Cannondale’s recent reboot of their Scalpel HT Hi-Mod XC race bike.
Yes, You Can Ride a Hardtail Pretty Hard – Version 2.0
British Columbia-based Enduro World Series star Yoann Barelli could probably ride any bike well and hard, but here, he shows us just how hard and fast a hardtail can be ridden over technical terrain.
HGG 2020: Diamondback Line 24
If your younger kids got serious about mountain biking this year, it’s time to take it to the next level with the Diamondback Line 24.
Yes, You Can Ride a Hardtail Pretty Hard
Blake from GMBN recently took his Nukeproof hardtail to Whistler to see just how hard you can ride a hardtail. Turns out, pretty hard.
Mountain Bikes We’d Like To Own: The Santa Cruz Chameleon
I’m suffering from enplusone disease after seeing Santa Cruz’s new aluminum 27.5 + / 29 Chameleon hardtail.
Where IS The Hardtail Love?
BIKE Magazine recently published their 2017 Bible of Bike Tests. While I was not the least bit surprised that there were no hardtails in the test, I felt the need to call them out on the obvious exclusion.
Hardtail bests full suspension in enduro test
The boys over at Global Mountain Bike Network pit a full on XC bike vs. a 165mm travel enduro rig and the XC comes out on top.