When it comes to mountain bike geekery, perhaps no other area of the bike contains such a deep and mystifying vocabulary as the suspension. While you probably shouldn’t get too hung up on the ups and ...

Manitou’s Mattoc range was refreshed in 2023 with three levels of fork – Comp, Expert and Pro (tested here) – each offering 110-150mm of travel, adjustable internally in 10mm increments, and with ...

Before suspension, which didn’t become mainstream until as recently as the late Nineties, mountain bikes were proper bone-shakers. On those old rigid-forked, rigid-framed bikes rough sections of track ...

Although most mountain bikers seem to be happy with their telescopic forks, over the years we've seen numerous attempts at supposedly-better linkage-based front suspension systems. A recent and ...

Sag, compression damping, lockout?! What does all this mean? We break down all the weird suspension-specific terms you'll hear in the bike shop so you won't look like a total idiot. Written by James ...