Given the unrelenting daily churn from the bike industry’s marketing hype machine, you could be forgiven for thinking that mountain bikes have always had suspension. Our more ‘mature’ readers will know that this simply isn’t true. The wonderful leisure activity of mountain biking did actually start out on fully rigid bikes, which we all happily rode ’til death (the bikes or ours) for many years before suspension came along. Now, I think most of us…

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