He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. Form Alloy Custom Hydroformed Frame with Internal Cable Routing. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Rocky Mountain Altitude is an all-round trail and enduro mountain bike designed for aggressive riding, fast climbs, and even faster descending.
He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. It can best be described as a mini Slayer. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. Rugged enough for the Rockies, yet nearly too pretty-to-ride RMBs Altitude 730 will get you up any mountain & back down technical trails with excellent. The Altitude still has 650b wheels, 150 millimeters of rear-wheel travel, and is still specd with 160 millimeters up front, but it feels more capable, more supple, and more aggressive than before. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom Marvin is a technical editor at and MBUK magazine. Those extra jockey wheels make it a touch noisy too. The power delivery isn’t quite as smooth as with a Shimano motor though, and the Powerplay’s torquey nature means you can feel some pulsing when pedalling up smooth fireroads.
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Adding a little length to the chainstays and steepening the seat angle would improve this even further. Frame material: Carbon or Alloy Head angle: 64.4 (POS 1) Reach: 449/474mm (M/L) Rocky Mountain has been at the sharp end of enduro racing for years and it's big-hitting Altitude is now the reigning Enduro World Series champion thanks to Canadian ripper, Jesse Melamed. The Altitude Powerplay shares the many of the same attributes as our race proven Altitudegeometry, kinematics, and adjustability.
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That extra torque, coupled with the grippy Wide Trail tyres, makes Rocky Mountain’s e-MTB arguably the best technical climber we’ve tested, full stop. Designed alongside our Dyname 4.0 drive system, the Altitude Powerplay has everything you need for aggressive enduro e-biking. Changes in chain tension physically move a sensor, making power delivery as reactive as any I’ve experienced. Frame material: Carbon or Alloy Head angle: 64.4° (POS 1) Reach: 449/474mm (M/L) Rocky Mountain has been at the sharp end of enduro racing for years and its big-hitting Altitude is now the reigning Enduro World Series champion thanks to Canadian ripper, Jesse Melamed. The Powerplay has extra battery capacity over most of its electric-assist rivals (632Wh vs around 500Wh), but what really impresses here is the torque delivered by the motor, and the speed with which it’s applied. Rocky Mountain Altitude Powerplay Carbon 70 ride impressions Rocky Mountain Altitude Powerplay Carbon 70 geometry (based on Pos.1 Slack Size L) Top tube: 62.8cm / 24.72in Seat tube: 48.25cm / 19in Head tube: 13cm / 5.12in Chainstay: 42.6cm / 16.77in. Race Face’s 30mm-wide ARC rims support 2.5in ‘Wide Trail’ Maxxis tyres: a Minion DHF up front and Aggressor at the back. The jockey wheels are also standard parts, for ease of maintenance. Shimano provides the XT drivetrain and brakes, while the motor uses Race Face Turbine cranks with a regular 34t chainring. This is the middle model in the Powerplay range and it gets Fox suspension front and rear, in the form of an ‘E-bike Optimized’ (basically, it has a stiffer chassis), 160mm-travel 36 FIT4 Performance Elite fork and matching Float DPS shock.
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