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Jun 23, 2021
What's best for cross-country? Hardtail or full suspension? BIG.NINE or NINETY-SIX?
What's best, a hardtail or a full-suspension mountain bike? If you ride or race cross-country (or you want to) and you're unsure which type of bike you need, this will help. Both are still raced at the very highest levels, so what are the pros and cons?
In this video, we cover everything you need to know, including what an XC hardtail and full sus share in common, how they differ and what sort of riding and terrain each kind is best suited to, using our BIG.NINE XT carbon hardtail and the latest NINETY-SIX RC XT full suspension bikes as examples.
To find out more about the BIG.NINE range of XC hardtails, please click here.
To learn more about the latest NINETY-SIX full-suspension cross-country bike, please click here.
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