{"id":102854,"date":"2018-08-08T16:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/pink-bike-8-augusy-2018-by-mike-kazimer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:56:53","slug":"pink-bike-8-augusy-2018-by-mike-kazimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/pink-bike-8-augusy-2018-by-mike-kazimer\/","title":{"rendered":"First Ride: Polygon&#8217;s New XquarOne DH by Mike Kazimer Pinkbike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto;\">\u201cThe XquarOne DH delivers an incredible amount of traction, especially while cornering. Typically, it&#8217;s pretty easy to let the back end get drifty when summer is in full swing and the trails are dry and dusty &#8211; all it takes is a subtle weight shift in the right scenario and the rear wheel of almost any bike out there will break free and slide around like a gymkhana car. With the XquarOne DH it&#8217;s a different story \u2013 that rear tire feels absolutely glued to the ground, no matter how hard you push into it. It&#8217;s a wild feeling, one that quickly leads to increased confidence when heading into a sharp turn with a good head of steam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto;\">That massive amount of traction had me expecting to need to fight to get airborne, but the XquarOne responded relatively well. There&#8217;s not as much pop as you&#8217;d find with something like a YT Tues, but it didn&#8217;t take a massive amount of effort to take flight either. My abbreviated stint on this bike left me with plenty of unanswered questions \u2013 I&#8217;m curious about how the bike will feel in really rough, choppy terrain, and about how the swingarm elements will fare when it comes to durability, but I&#8217;ll need more time on the bike before I can figure out the answers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"JUSTIFY\">\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe XquarOne DH delivers an incredible amount of traction, especially while cornering. Typically, it&#8217;s pretty easy to let the back end get drifty when summer is in full swing and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6624],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112438,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102854\/revisions\/112438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}