Additionally, while on-paper the bike is long (at least for the time) tighter terrain and switchbacks are completely manageable, with taking a slight/quick learning curve on getting timing down correctly. Seated pedaling provides a solid platform that’s not overly fatiguing on 25+ mile rides. It’s not a bike that you wouldn’t want a climb switch on if the terrain is smooth. Pedaling/Climbing Sustained Climbingįor a longer travel trail bike, I would say the V1 Sentinel climbs acceptably. So in short, the V1 Sentinel actually has some very up-to-date geo, with the exception of the chain stay length outside of the size medium. As such, if you go into the rabbit hole of modern geo charts, you’ll see that the folks over at Transition most likely optimized the 435mm chain stay for a size medium, whereas on the V2 that length sits at ~440mm, which is in-line with most large sized frames. Unlike many high-end manufacturers of today Transition did not, and I believe still does not, have chain stay lengths specific to sizes. However, when pointing the bike down during extended flatter descents, I did notice my neck fatiguing over time, which in the grand scale of things isn't a deal-breaker. This could have been alleviated by a larger rise bar, or a higher stack, but I never opted to go that route. On paper, I thought the 450mm would be a real stretch, but found the short stem, and relatively steep seat tube (~77 deg) angle, allowed the bike to feel comfortable during pedaling. The Sentinel was not an outlier for this, and as such I went with my standard of sizing up for a medium. At 5’7” on a good day, I typically fall solidly between a size small and size medium with most bike manufacturers.
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