What Mountain Bike 5* Transmitter

What Mountain Bike 5* Transmitter

By David Hanney

Genuine game changer .... crazily capable, radical geometry, hardcore hardtail that maximises the control and speed ... outrageously good value ... reset our definition of cost-effective bike performance .... very very nearly saw Sonder take the overall win.

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