What's The BEST Trail Mountain Bike In 2024?

We have been testing the best trail mountain bikes to determine which should be crowned our 2024 Trail Bike of the Year.

The final choice came down to the Marin Rift Zone 29 XR, the Canyon Spectral CF7, and the Whyte T-160 RS but which came out on top?

Let us know what your choice would be in the comments!

#bikeoftheyear #trailbike #cycling

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:30 The Bikes
01:26 Climbing Performance
03:17 Frame Details & Specs
04:19 Descending Performance
09:24 The Winner Is

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2024 Canyon Spectral CF Review: This Bike Steers Itself?

Top 5 Best-Value Trail Bikes 2024

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[bikeradar]

What would be your trail bike of the year?

[shaun]

Title should be the best of the bikes we were sent, these are not the best trail bikes available by any stretch of the imagination.

[alexmason]

For 3k there’s no argument against the Whyte, that’s a hell of a lot of bike for the money

[joshwright]

I've just bought the Whyte t140, Awesome bike rips down hills

[kovyrshinv]

How come 160/150 is a trail bike? It used to be 130/130. 160/150 used to be enduro few years back and now is all mountain.

[niseach]

Santa Cruz Hightower - absolute dream to ride.

[jaynolajones]

The cannondale habit lt! 💙 best bike I’ve had

[burgieee]

I've looked and looked at the market and have to agree for £2999 the Whyte is untouchable!!! It offers everything not to mention lifetime free frame bearings . Plus I have to say from personal experience the build quality on the Whyte is far superior to the yt ....👌🏻👌🏻 plus it looks the dogs bollucks 🚲💨

[andrewlounsberry]

Nice try but 160mm travel and Assegai tires is NOT a trail bike. Not to mention your comment about the most important quality is their descending capabilities... 🤨

[madrapperdave]

"Don't let the 130mm travel decieve you, This is built for fun" - what planet are ppl living on when they think 130mm isn't any fun ????

[mrsith]

How can you say the best trail bike of the year when you only reviewed 3 bikes?

[marksandoval]

Looks like Whyte reinvented the Specialized Stumpjumper Evo.

[IntoTheWhite]

The answer is the Orbea Occam. Unlucky

[ivostarmans]

Yt jeffsy. Trek Fuel ex, Specialized Stumpjumper, Orbea Occam?