We’ve seen this bike before in its prototype stages being tested by Tim Hunter in an Auckland Quarry but this is the first look at the production version of ABD’s slopestyle bike, the Level. This particular bike was built up for ABD rider Lewis Jones so he can search and destroy his way to the top of the freeride world. Or something like that. He’s off to Whistler to kill it anyway.
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Janet Kan November 21, 2022
Kiran MacKinnon is a human dyno. When Santa Cruz Bicycles needs to test, experiment and validate suspension then Kiran is the one of the main people we call on to do that work. Not only is he an extremely talented bike rider and incredibly knowledgeable about suspension, but he can actually interpret and translate what he’s feeling in a way that he can communicate to the rest of the engineering team. This enables them to cross-reference the data they’ve collected with real life, on-trail experience to build better bikes and provide the right setup for our riders. We’re constantly refining our VPP™ suspension as well as the damping tunes shocks we spec on our bikes in order to make sure our bikes ride really, really good.
That is so sick! Cant wait to see some photos of him riding this!!