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.
No, it’s not a new Black Crowes album, but riding roots and rocks can be some mountain biker’s worst fear.
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.
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.
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.
