Gone are the days when you left everyone behind in races with a hardtail race bike – only to feel the effects in your body for days afterward. The Epic Hardtail Comp combines comfort with performance, making your life not just literally easier. So you can hardly wait for the next race. Bringing the lightest bike to the start has always been one of the biggest challenges for top teams. However, the fight for every gram came at a cost. XC hardtails stand for tough, fast rides at the expense of off-road capability and versatility. But who actually claimed that the exhausting battle against the rigidity and stubbornness of your bike makes you even a bit faster? We realized that the fastest bike isn’t just the lightest one. That’s why we moved away from conventional rear suspensions that only cause pain with their inflexibility and chose a completely different approach. The result is our incredibly capable, legendary comfortable, unbelievably light, and extremely fast Epic Hardtail. Of course, we optimized every inch of the frame to create the lightest production hardtail in the world. That goes without saying. But our real goal was to develop a hardtail that combines performance with comfort. Aggressive geometry for single trails, more tire clearance, and unprecedented vertical compliance, made possible solely through obsessive engineering, are now the hot facts of the Epic Hardtail. A bike that embodies speed in every single fiber. The Epic Hardtail Comp is equipped with the ever-reliable SID SL fork from RockShox to pave your way, while the SRAM drivetrain leaves no doubt about its performance.