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SPECIALIZED STATUS 160
Mountain Bike Rider
|January 2022
£2,760 / 29-27.5in / specialized.com
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Status has multiple meanings: think marital status or the situation of a particular time during a specific process, like the status of a passport application. More commonly though, when we think of status we are concerned with the social or professional position of somebody or something in relation to others. That’s the Oxford Dictionary definition, but what we’re concerned with here is how the Specialized Status 160 stacks up with its peers. Well, with a perfect 10 rating in our mullet bike test, it proved without a shadow of doubt that you don’t need to spend a fortune on a trail/ enduro rig to reap the benefits of modern geometry and great sus
This story is from the January 2022 edition of Mountain Bike Rider.
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