The Root Miller has been a complete redesign for 2015, and shares nothing but the name with the old bike, claims Rose. It’s a 130mm travel 29er with now shorter head tube, seat seat tube angle and shorter rear stays.
A Supertrail version of the Root Miller sees fork travel boosted to 140mm as well as change to chunkier tyres and a piggyback reservoir shock. Rose didn’t have a production version of this bike at the launch, only this bare metal pre-production sample.
The theory is sound, it’s sort of like Specialized’s Evo version of their regular bikes. Same bike, beefier fork and shocks, tyres and wider bars and shorter stems. Could be a hit this one we reckon.
