As the snow line receeds and starts to reveal more trail we're finding ourselves higher and higher into the back country. Here the wife is testing out her new Felt Virtue 3 on a shakedown ride at Como. Felt's new line of dual suspension bikes are promising, the bikes pedal very well and the linkages appear as though they can take a good amount of hard pounding. But i suppose only a good summer of hard riding in the bitteroots will tell, the rocks here have the tendacy of revealing weak points in a suspension design. On Tre's bike here we settled in on a 30% sag rate and she was all grins. I rode behind her after we dialed in the shock and watched the suspension in action. It was completely active but there wasn't ANY pedal induced movement what so ever. If you're after an efficient 5" travel dual suspension bike then look no further, Felt has 4 models this year and for 08' they plan to expand upon the design by creating a true all mountain 6" chasis. Things are looking fantastic for Felt. Nice work fellas and thanks for diving head first into manufacturing high end mountain bikes.
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