The SB120 has an uncanny ability to make everything from tires to grips to saddle, to mid-corner or black-grade, boulder run body position feel totally in the right place. It’s a tribute to how dialed the overall geometry is on the SB120; it’s nothing radical, just a brilliant place to be to enjoy all sorts of trails. That makes the SB120 an overachiever on descents with flowing rocky, rooty sections with a ridiculous amount of speed sustain for a 120mm travel bike. Travel is available when needed but support and ride height is maintained through even the hardest corners and compressions. For all the details and to find out what over four decades of evolution rides like, check out our full review of the Specialized Stumpjumper Evo Comp.
Today, Santa Cruz and Julianna continue to hand-assemble all models in its California factory and they stand behind that process. They are so sure of the quality they put out that all Santa Cruz bikes come with a lifetime warranty covering the frame and fork. Since then Trek, like Specialized, has been one of the pivotal brands when it comes to introducing new tech into mountain biking. Under the Gary Fisher name, it was the first brand to make a commercial push with the 29er wheel. While that took some development and weathered much criticism, Trek has certainly come out on the right side of history with 29ers becoming the most common wheel size in almost every MTB discipline. Trek was also one of the brands that made huge inroads by introducing carbon fiber to mountain biking with its OCLV development.
These bikes usually come from the factory with all bearings too tight.Check both hubs, the bottom bracket and the headset before riding. We are proud to announce our transformation into Motion Matrix “A Kids Business”. We are expanding our services, improving our facility and implementing technology into our business management systems to create an enhanced customer experience. We will continue to provide the excellence in recreational and competitive huffy mountain bike gymnastics that you have become accustomed to. He likes the feeling of riding a bike that’s too big for him — Iremember that feeling and can understand the appeal. He’s extremely lazybut instead of making him sensitive to the exertion it seems to have madehim ambivalent to its slowness.
Like a lot of mountain bike companies, Trek is a brand born from a lack of offerings. The dream was to start a nationwide chain of stores in America in the early 1970s, but things didn’t turn out like that and a lack of available bikes required a re-think. Before an era of globalization, good American bikes weren’t available so Trek set out to change that. They envisioned high-quality options from the middle price points all the way to the top shelf offerings but the focus was on road bikes. The company became synonymous with the American mountain bike scene with the release of the first Stumpjumper in 1981.
While tires were a normal wear-and-tear thing (as the bike was ridden nearly daily over the span of time I had it, as long as the weather was good), the bike started having other issues. One of the first issues I had with this bike was a flat tire after my grandfather massively overinflated (and blew) a tire with his air compressor. Designers wanted to lower the Jekyll’s center of gravity, and its frame features a twin-spar downtube. This is a bike targeted at committed enduro riders, who never shy away from any black-rated descent. In 1985 a welder from California named John Parker turned his passion into a business and founded Yeti.