In five years Saracen have emerged from nowhere to win World Cup and World Championship gold medals in the hands of Manon Carpenter. It’s some success story for a really small team of product managers and designers. Little by little the bikes have been tweaked and yet the prices have remained relatively constant. A carbon swingarm has been added during a time when they have become lower and slacker. For Matt Simmonds it was a dream run in this year’s Meribel World Cup, one of the hardest on the circuit losing out by only four tenths. The Myst has very much arrived. And it didn’t take very long. It also plans to stay around with a great build of Shimano’s best.

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