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Full Suspension MTB Frames

admin | May 4th, 2009 | Comments Off

MTB Full Suspension
Photo by Jonathan Shield

In mountain bike styles where the bike, and rider is put under extreme stress full suspension bikes have become increasingly popular.  The bikes feature a fairly standard frame geometry however include rear suspension and may be further customised by the type of event the rider is interested in such as freeride (FR), Downhill (DH), Mountain cross or “4-cross racing” (4X).

Commonly, inferior mass produced high street bikes will also be full suspension as a marketing ploy and to give an impression of being ‘more expensive’, don’t be fooled!

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