Juliana Joplin Carbon S Mountain Bike - Women's

With accessibility of mountain biking exploding over the past decade, trails have gotten rowdier, and bikes more eager than ever to take on the challenge that comes with it. This often calls for deeper travel, more capable geometry, and a bit of teeth-gritting through hairy sections of trails that challenged the sum of the suspension on your old bike. But Juliana has never been a brand to take its time coming up to speed with the changing times, in fact that's easy to see just with the brand's divergence from its sibling, Santa Cruz, but it continues to drive the point home with the new Joplin Carbon S Mountain Bike. This all-mountain machine takes the speedy cross-country roots of the Joplin and pushes harder and further into extreme-country, chasing sunsets in the backcountry, tackling new highs, and elevating confidence on the steep and chunky descents. This is largely due to the full geometry makeover it received, plus the deeper travel, and redesigned suspension. The new Joplin takes the notion that cross-country bikes are made to be ridden delicately and carefully through technical terrain, and flips it on its head, because the last time we checked, we've never slowed down on a rowdy and ripping section of trail just because our ride is a little shorter in the travel department. We suppose that with the release of Juliana's new Maverick, and the Roubion getting a makeover in the suspension department, we shouldn't be all that surprised to see tweaks to the Joplin went in the same direction. The new Joplin follows the trends of its deeper-travel siblings, moving the VPP suspension down to a lower-link that offers improved stabilization in the roughest terrain, while an extra 10mm of travel helps soak up additional rocks and roots that the previous Joplin would have shied away from. This makes the new ride more confident than ever, ready for bigger trails, rutted out lines, brakes bumps galore, and even turning the odd set of rollers into doubles -- but not a...