Welcome to a lean, mean collection of the best cross-country mountain bikes built for speed ... and it’s surprisingly capable downhill, but there are better climbing XC bikes. We found the suspension ...

Cross-country races often use parkland ... which allow for off-road access. Downhill bikes are much more robustly built, with longer travel suspension, tougher wheels and tyres and different frame ...

This old idiom perfectly describes adventure bikes they can handle just about ... Even more so when youre planning a cross-country ride. A cruiser would break your back and fail to go over ...

The Yeti ASR is the Colorado company's reentry into cross-country racing. But the mountain bike can do more than race.

Taking a bike off-road was nothing new, but the development of a new bike that relished such terrain was; these bikes had fatter tyres ... They invented the Repack Downhill race, held regularly ...

including fast and efficient cross-country bikes and long-travel enduro rigs or downhill machines. He rides on the road and gravel, too. He’s tested hundreds of bikes, piles of components and ...