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While everyone else was building skinnies, hucking cliff drops, practicing bar spins, taking chairlifts, and wearing skinny jeans, Salsa was out in the woods, pedaling raw, rugged trails in the middle of nowhere, carrying a big non-folding Buck knife on the hip, and wearing Carhartts.

Even though this is the longest-travel, biggest-wheeled, highest-speed, most capable Rocky Mountain Altitude to date, it still somehow retains much of its maneuverability and evenhandedness.

Trek was an outlier with the previous Slash when they went all-in on enduro 29. Things have changed, but the Slash stays true to its mission: Slashing.

Spot just revamped the 130-millimeter-travel Mayhem with completely new geo, and added in a harder-hitting Mayhem 150 to really get the party going.

Evil has transformed the Wreckoning into one of the least intimidating, yet still incredibly capable and versatile long-travel bikes on the market today.