![]() When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights. 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. Reworked and modifiable kinematics making the bike more dynamic. We got the result we wanted thanks to a few key points: - Large 29-inch wheels. 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. META TR 29 When we developed the META TR 29, our intentions were clear - to make a bike that performs very well uphill but that also retains the COMMENCAL downhill DNA. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. Thanks to its 29-inch wheels, kinematics that make the bike even more dynamic and a straighter saddle angle (with reduced deport), the META TR 29 is formidable. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. Equipped with super tyres and brakes, the new META TR 29 is certainly not just a more comfortable XC bike but rather clearly, a 'mini-enduro' which pushes the standards of agility and dynamism even further. ![]() He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Notably, the sharper lines highlight improved performance. Tom Marvin is a technical editor at and MBUK magazine.
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