{"id":236769,"date":"2020-04-28T16:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/?p=236769"},"modified":"2020-04-30T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T06:45:45","slug":"tested-the-all-new-transition-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtb-mag.com\/en\/tested-the-all-new-transition-sentinel\/","title":{"rendered":"[Tested] The All New Transition Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago, when the Transition Sentinel hit the market it was, for lack of a less clich\u00e9 term, a game changer. <\/span>While that term is thrown around far too loosely, it was the Sentinel’s “Speed \u200b\u200bBalanced Geometry” specifically, that changed the game – or at least enough so that a great deal of mountain bike manufacturers piled on and copied<\/del> adopted the approach. <\/span>Transition’s approach was, in short:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Steeper seat angles <\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Longer reaches paired with shorter stems <\/span><\/span>
\n\u2022 Slacker head angles combined with shorter offset forks<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The combination of these three concepts went a very long way in improving modern mountain bikes in two directions. <\/span>Simultaneously, SBG made them better at climbing, due to the more upright, forward positioning and also better at descending, due to increased stability from a longer front end and slacker head angle. <\/span>Anyhow, a few short years later, countless brands both large and small are implementing similar concepts with their geometry. <\/span>So – now that the long winded introduction to the old Sentinel is behind us, it’s time to meet the new Sentinel …<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A few months ago, Transition was kind enough to send out their high value $5,499 GX spec’d Sentinel for us to start testing. <\/span>First and foremost, visually you can see that the bike has taken on a totally new industrial design, with less swoopy, and instead much more angular lines. <\/span>Transition also recently moved to a new carbon factory where their new frames are constructed using Japanese Toray carbon and with Latex EPS molding. <\/span>While most of the geometry changes are nonexistent or subtle at most, the Sentinel did receive a travel bump out back from 140mm to 150mm, although the fork travel remains the same at 160mm. <\/span>Read on for our full thoughts…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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