THEY SAY YOU can never be too tall or too confident. Be that as it may, it seems you can all too easily be too tall, or heavy, for lots of 'large' mtb frames. Here we test three bikes built for the bigger figure. We're confident you'll find something here to suit

Our annual entry-level hardtail test returns for it's eighth year with a dozen singletrack slags, all gagging for a hard rutting with the MBR testers - WARNING LARGE FILE