BIKE TEST: HIGH-PIVOT IDLER ENDURO BIKES

High-pivot idler bikes have proven their worth on the DH stage, now they’re the zeitgeist design for enduro bikes too, but can they offer the same kind of advantage? Does decoupling chain forces from the suspension really pay off in the real world? We’ve got two rippers to figure it out: on test is the GT Force and Forbidden’s Dreadnought, the former a mid-pivot four-bar design from the US, the latter a singlepivot layout from Canada