Seb's been working as a mountain bike technical editor since 2015, and has reviewed hundreds of bikes and components in that time. Before that, his background was in experimental physics, where he got ...

Heavy; narrow range of hard gears; chainstays suffer from heel rub; harsh-feeling over rough ground; The Merida Big Trail 400 is part of the brand’s range of 29er hardtail mountain bikes. This ...

I had always been a bike purist. Up until recently, I’ve been riding the same bike I got for my 10th birthday. Sure, it still got me where I needed to go, but it was definitely time for an upgrade. As ...