{"id":75422,"date":"2018-05-25T06:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/new-drop-bar-bike-joins-the-mba-fleet-mountain-biking-australia-magz\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:51:09","slug":"new-drop-bar-bike-joins-the-mba-fleet-mountain-biking-australia-magz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/new-drop-bar-bike-joins-the-mba-fleet-mountain-biking-australia-magz\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW DROP BAR BIKE JOINS THE MBA FLEET (MOUNTAIN BIKING AUSTRALIA MAGZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto;\">MOUNTAIN BIKING AUSTRALIA &#8211; 25 MAY 2018 Originally, we picked one up to serve as a pseudo city bike, one that could be ridden to the shops easily to grab basic groceries and the like\u2026 but it actually felt like the bike was underutilised with a rack and mudguards on it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: Roboto;\">The Apex gearing on the Bend RV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/adventure-us\/?cat=gravel-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-schema-attribute=\"mentions\"><strong>gravel bike<\/strong><\/a> is fast enough for decent speed on the road, but we\u2019re going to bump the rear up to an 11-46, and upgrade the front to a 40t, just for a bit more top end. The G-Ones should be considered a light-duty off road tyre; it doesn\u2019t take much dust on the top of a gravel road for them to become skatey, but dropping a little pressure helps here. On road, though, they sizzle. Tyre spec is something that will play to your advantage here \u2013 if you do mostly gravel, changing to a bigger bagged tyre will pay dividends in comfort and grip, but the stockers are a great all-rounder.<\/span><\/p>\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>MOUNTAIN BIKING AUSTRALIA &#8211; 25 MAY 2018 Originally, we picked one up to serve as a pseudo city bike, one that could be ridden to the shops easily to grab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75423,"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":[3922],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142060,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75422\/revisions\/142060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}