BikeRadar Podcast Ep 2: Trail Bike of the Year round-up

Our mountain bike testers discuss the top five trail bikes for 2019, and look at what trends are on offer this year

Our Trail Bike of the Year came from the Commencal stable

Tom Marvin

Published: May 10, 2019 at 2:55 pm

Our annual Trail Bike of the Year test has been completed and with the results in, we decided to get the main testers together to have a good natter about the top five bikes - what they were, why we rated them, and how we came to our eventual winner.

This is the second BikeRadar Podcast — our first covered our Road Bike of the Year test. Please let us know what you think in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe to the BikeRadar Podcast through your podcast delivery service!

How to listen to the BikeRadar Podcasts

You can find the Trail Bike of the Year podcast on iTunes and Spotify, along with all the other regular podcast providers.

The Road Bike of the Year podcast is also on iTunes and Spotify.

You can find all the podcast episodes on our Podcast Page.

The links you need

Commencal Meta TR 29 TBOTY Winner Review

The Commencal Meta 29 TR Brit Edition is our 2019 Trail Bike of the Year — The Commencal Meta 29 TR Brit Edition is our 2019 Trail Bike of the Year - Dan Milner / Immediate Media

Vitus Escarpe 29 VRX TBOTY Contender Review

vitus escarpe pack — The Vitus impressed with it's stellar rear suspension performance

YT Jeffsy 29 CF Pro TBOTY Contender Review

yt jeffsy pack shot — YT's Jeffsy is all-new for 2019

Norco Sight A1 29 TBOTY Contender Review

No nonsense from the Norco Sight - an great first 'serious' mountain bike — No nonsense from the Norco Sight - a great first 'serious' mountain bike

Cannondale Habit Carbon 3 TBOTY Contender Review

The Cannondale Habit is a 'true' trail bike

For reviews of even more Trail Bike of the Year bikes, as well as plenty of Road Bike of the Year bikes, search our 2019 Bike Of The Year page.

Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.