Meet the Trail
Crazy Fast Meets Ridiculously Capable
Trail
120mm
Rear Travel
29"
Wheel Size
Carbon
Material
The best trail bikes are neither whippy nor overbuilt. They are, in a word, balanced. We sweat the details—painstakingly developing the precise mix of resins, composite fibers, lay-orientation and frame shaping to create a chassis with the perfect blend of strength and stiffness. We’ve also given the Trail 429 many of the same strength and stiffness-enhancing features that you’ll find on our gravity-oriented bikes, including a double-wishbone rear triangle, Super Boost Plus rear axle spacing, ultra-wide suspension linkages and burly bearing assemblies. With the Trail 429, we’ve upped the ante on downhill performance without any loss in versatility.
The Heartbeat of Our Technology
Hours of engineering cannot replace collective personal passion. We have both.
We Are Family
Pivot Cycles staff and athletes around the globe are bound together by a shared love of MTB technology an unapologetic passion for high performance.
Game Changers
Founded by engineers, highly innovative Pivot Cycles influences a whole new generation of mountain bike design and carbon frame manufacturing.
World class athletes
From high school league racing to the Olympics, Pivot Cycles believes deeply in supporting athletes at every level of the sport.
Morgane Charre X Gampel
Deep in the Swiss Alps, Morgane Charre transcends time – and the trail – on the Firebird. From her home in France, the newest member of Pivot Factory Racing takes us to a rugged and hidden corner of our mountain biking Universe.
E-MTB, Elevated, with Bernard Kerr
Everyone knows that you can ride farther on a Shuttle, but did you know you can fly higher as well? Bernard Kerr takes his pedal assisted adventure to new heights on the Dream Track in New Zealand.
Recent Pivot News
P21E
When Training is Sport Growing up in the Philadelphia’s suburbs, mountain biking wasn’t really in the scene for 7x Cross Fit World Games competitor Chris Spealler. But bicycles were there, and he and his buddies discovered every hidden path. Now, as a member of the Pivot Factory riders’ family, mountain biking gives Chris an outlet […]
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Women on the Western Wildlands Route
Photos by Myke Hermsmeyer The adventure may have started in grim weather, including fresh snowfall, but as the miles passed, the skies cleared, and the simplicity of the trip settled in. Early in 2020, with the rapid cancellation of racing the season’s racing, Chloe Woodruff, Kait Boyle, Evelyn Dong, and Rose Grant decided to take […]
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Swenson & Grant Win BWR Cedar City
Photo Credit: Photos courtesy of Belgian Waffle Ride Stan’s-Pivot riders Keegan Swenson and Rose Grant swapped their usual Mach 4 SL world cup race rockets for the dropbar mixed surface marauder that is the Vault. Of the pair, Keegan had some gravel experience having done two races previously, while it was Rose’s first ever gravel […]
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