![]() And, as Transition claims, it’s a bike “designed for 29er skeptics,” meaning with the updated geo it should have maximum maneuverability coupled with unparalleled stability. As a big bike with big wheels and a good amount of travel (160mm in the front, 140 in the rear) the Sentinel is a bike designed for the exact kind of terrain I like to ride. The bike is part of Transition 's SENTINEL range of mountain bikes. ![]() It sports 29' wheels, is priced at 7,499 USD, comes in a range of sizes, including SM, MD, LG, XL, XXL, has Fox suspension and a SRAM drivetrain. Sentinel X01 Carbon Highlights Frame material: Carbon Wheels format: 29 (max 2.5) Suspension scheme: four bar with Horst link Adjustable geometry: no Front/rear travel: 160/140 mm Rear Boost : yes Fork Boost: yes / offset 43 mm Metric shock: yes (205×57. The Sentinel was Transition’s first bike with SBG to hit the market, although now their Patrol, Scout and Smuggler have the technology too. The 2022 Transition Sentinel X01 Carbon is an Enduro Carbon mountain bike. With a symphony of updates-including a steeper seat tube angle, longer reach, shorter stem, super slack head tube angle and reduced fork offset-there’s no way this bike could not handle starkly different. As a rider who seeks out the most aggressive trails that I can find, I’m all ears to any advantages that geometry can provide. Somehow, the wizards at Transition managed to do just that, enabling their SBG platform to be brought to the masses. The biggest reason for this is the fork offset, because that would mean not just tweaking a bike’s geometry, but creating a new standard for forks-and that would mean getting giants like RockShox and Fox on board. While the changes in frame geometry that have been made in the past five years are staggering, steering trail has not changed, and so, according to Transition, “modern” geometry is still being held back by trail. The biggest change they made is to what’s called steering trail, or the function of the headtube angle, fork offset and wheel size. So when I heard about Transition Bikes’ new Speed Balanced Geometry (SBG), a platform that supposedly improves upon stability and handling by adjusting crucial angles and the offset of the front wheel, I was immediately excited.
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