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Saracen Tufftrax review

The Tufftrax name has been around for many years – plenty of British riders got into mountain biking thanks to the powder-blue early 90s incarnation.

Since then Saracen have had their ups and downs, but under new ownership the Tufftrax is back.

The most impressive thing about the Tufftrax is that, despite its weight and the inevitably compromised SR Suntour fork, a lot of the time we completely forgot that it costs only £259. Even by entry-level standards, this is a cheap bike.

Yes, the pounds make themselves felt under acceleration and up climbs, and start battering roots and rocks at speed and the fork quickly starts waving the white flag. But stick to smoother trails and, once you’ve got the Saracen rolling, it’s a whole lot of fun.

Compared with some other budget bikes, the Tufftrax feels most like a ‘proper’ mountain bike, with a decent cockpit length (our medium test bike was as long as some of the rival larges) and sorted handling. It’s not at all shy of corners, helped by the surprisingly capable tyres, but that agility doesn’t come with a side-order of nervousness.

The Saracen manages the tricky balancing act of being stable enough to reassure a newcomer but flighty enough to offer some reward when the same novice starts to get the hang of things. When you mix that with the bargain price, you’ve got a clear winner.

While Saracen’s graphics are on the lairy side, the frame underneath is quite understated. But look more closely and you’ll find a host of neat details that show Saracen have put plenty of thought into the Tufftrax.

The front end is all straight tubes, but they’re not plain round ones – the down tube is flared vertically at the head tube and horizontally at the bottom bracket, while the top tube has an inverted triangular cross-section. A tidy open-ended gusset under the down tube reinforces the joint with the head tube, which takes a conventional headset.

Out back, snaked seatstay and chainstays deliver a good combo of mud room and heel clearance, with very neat cowled dropouts being a cut above the norm on a bike of this price.

All the cables run along the top tube, and you get two bottle mounts. Bikes in this price range are as likely (possibly more likely) to end up on the street as the trail, and the Tufftrax obliges with rack and mudguard mounts.

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