Our years of experience testing bikes and various components have taught us one thing: keeping variables (read: trails) fixed, that is riding on a familiar, well known track. The first lap down a trail is usually the one that most affects the results of a test. In this case, I’m speaking of a fork mounted on a bike that I’ve been using on home trails for more than six months, the
Mondraker Foxy 29 , the variables are reduced to one: the new Manitou Mezzer.
The fork was officially presented during the bike festival last May:
Since this article mainly pertains to my first impressions of the fork, I won’t go too heavily into the details of the various settings explained in the video, because for the most part, I’ve stayed fairly close to Manitou’s guidelines which are listed below...
