The 429 Trail doesn’t look much different to the old Mach 429 at first glance. But Pivot regards it as a totally new bike.
Travel increases to 116mm via a dw-ink setup that uses a new upper link and the lower link from the Mach 6 Enduro bike. The rear end uses a wider, stiffer Boost 148mm axle and it’s fully Di2 electric shift compatible.
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Slacker and longer geometry (a 630mm top tube and a 67.5-degree head tube) includes a shorter seat tube, so you can go up a frame size if you want even more stretch for a super stubby stem.
Seamlessly silky
The reworked dw-ink suspension does a brilliant job of floating you over small trail chatter or significant hits without interrupting pedal rhythm or overall composure. It’s the same story in reverse too, with neither slow, staccato pedalling nor savage braking upsetting the consistent ground connection of the rear wheel.
Even with a short 184mm shock length, the excellent new Fox DPS Kashima shock is impressively measured but never mean with the amount of travel it uses. That meant most of our test riders thought they were riding a 130-140mm travel bike not a 116mm rig.
Game of two halves
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