Commencal Bikes have provided some of the best bang for the buck around and we were excited to see how the new Meta Power TR would stack up. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.The Commencal Meta Power TR is one of the latest additions to a brand that has been delivering direct to consumer shred sleds for the better part of a decade. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. 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. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. 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. With neither front nor back end being super long (in fact, the 432mm chainstays are 6mm shorter than on the 650b Meta V4.2), I don’t want to use the cliché of the bike being ‘flickable’, but it’s certainly not a bike that’s scared of tight corners, nor being slapped from side to side as you sling the bike along a twisty trench-like trail.
The soft compound tyre and ground-hugging suspension means the Meta AM 29 is happy having its front wheel loaded into corners, where every ounce of grip can be found. The small bump sensitivity, mated with the Rapid Recovery, meant traction here was as good as could be expected, while the support offered by the fork as it goes through its travel meant that the front end never pitched dangerously on the steeps.ĭuring testing I was able to add a token and reduce air pressure, meaning better support later in its travel yet a softer feeling earlier on - at 85kg kitted up I ended up with 91psi and two tokens, and the compression damping left relatively open. Magic Marys are a popular choice on aggressive enduro bikes, for good reason Nico Brizin / Commencalįortunately, the Lyrik is a superb fork, and so I never felt out of control even on the greasier sections of track. The Meta 29 is far from nervous or incapable when things really point down, but a longer reach would improve the bike’s sure-footedness a touch in these situations. Some will feel that Commencal missed a trick when building this new bike, with geometry figures that look relatively conservative against a number of other new enduro bikes, and this would be most felt on the steepest of tracks. Commencal Meta AM 29 Team Edition geometry Schwalbe’s Magic Mary tyre, in the Addix Soft compound up front, adds confidence in the turns too, working well to provide grip in both the wet and the dry.Īt the rear, the older Hans Dampf didn’t match the Mary’s competence, but production bikes should come with the updated Hans Dampf, which is a definite improvement on the old.
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With the suspension dealing admirably with the ground, and the Code RSC brakes on my test bike (stock bikes will come with the impressive Guide RE brake) offering ample power, you’re able to focus more on line choice. The composed ride gives extra confidence when things turn more technical and steep. A coil shock out back gives an incredibly supple ride Nico Brizin / Commencal
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