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IF TESTERS COULD CHOOSE JUST ONE

TRAVIS ENGEL

I was pretty close to flipping a coin on this one. The Yeti SB150 was gonna be heads. That bike felt like home to me. It puts up similar numbers to my current go-to big bike, and I had none of the trouble managing it at slow speeds that other testers did. The Evil Offering would have been tails. It does exactly what I wish my Following could do, and it’s far better at goofing off than the SB150. But I knew a coin flip wouldn’t work. If I got heads, I’d start thinking about the perfect leverage curve on the Offering. If I got tails, I’d worry about missing out on the SB150’s high-speed stability.

So instead, I thought back to the time I spent on. And they all were made more perfect by the (page 48).

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