![]() With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. ![]() He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. ![]() Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom Marvin is a technical editor at and MBUK magazine. On bigger compressions and hits we’d have liked a touch more support from the shock’s mid stroke, because we found the bike was prone to dipping towards the end of its travel prematurely. Under braking there’s a little bit of skitter from the back end – you’ll either love or hate this, but you certainly aren’t left feeling isolated from what’s happening under the tyres. The ‘Performance Elite’ suspension front and back is controlled and tunable, only missing out on the top five per cent of potential performance because it lacks the gold-standard Kashima coating.īecause the wide rims allow lower pressures, the chunky tyres are able to conform effortlessly to the ground beneath them, letting you push hard into corners and brake late when things get lairy. With a low bottom bracket, slack-ish head angle and stacks of suspension travel, it would be hard for the Altitude to lack attitude when the trail descends. We’d have liked more mid-stroke support from the Fox DPS EVOL shock Russell Burton Rocky Mountain Altitude Carbon 70 ride impression Wide Stan’s Flow rims (29mm internal) are wrapped in high-volume Maxxis Minion tyres in the new ‘Wide Trail’ format to provide a spot-on wheelset. The bike comes with one of our favourite droppers, the Fox Transfer, and Race Face and Rocky Mountain take care of the finishing kit. Shimano bring it all to a halt too, with XT stoppers. The drivetrain is based around Shimano’s 11-speed XT group, with Race Face Turbine Cinch cranks. There’s no slippery Kashima coating, but everything else you’d want from Fox is there. Rocky Mountain Altitude Carbon 70 kitįox take care of damping duties with a ‘Performance Elite’ spec 36 Float fork with FIT4 damper up front and a matching DPS EVOL rear shock. Other key geometry numbers (on the large size, in the ‘Slack’ setting) include a reach of 452mm, a bottom bracket drop of 13mm, short 426mm chainstays, a 74-degree seat angle and a pretty average 1,206mm wheelbase. Nine different settings can be accessed via two interlocking chips on the swing link, from ‘Slack’ (65-degree head angle) to ‘Steep’ (66.1 degrees).Ĭhanging between them is a simple case of removing a bolt and flipping the chips. One particularly interesting frame feature is the ‘RIDE-9’ geometry adjustment system.
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