The alloy mountain bike known as the Atherton S.170 is your choice for the most desirable machine of 2024.
“Hugely honoured that our S.170 has won Singletrack World’s ‘Most Desirable MTB Category’. Thanks to everyone who voted for the first in our aluminium range… we look forward to more of you getting to know this brilliant bike and we look forward to introducing you to more in the range soon, all designed here in the Dyfi.” – Atherton Bikes
Here’s our initial review from March 2024… Atherton S.170 review
Brand : Atherton
Product : S170
From : Atherton Bikes
Price : Prices start from £4,799 Tested by : Rhys Wainwright for 1 day The Atherton S.170 is no alloy look-a-like; Atherton has applied excellent engineering and delivered a mighty fine aluminium mountain bike. Pros Design is beautiful – unless you don’t like round tubes Manufacturing quality is exceptional Beauty and quality are reasonably priced! Cons The holes could be covered up better Head tube cable routing Offer some customisation of the chainstay length What is it? The S170 is a striking silver machine. The straight and round front triangle tubes stand out, brazenly proud of their manufacturing method. Take a step closer and the quality of the machining on the adjoining lugs becomes apparent. Nowhere can you find a machining dwell mark, the final run over these surfaces has been calculated to perfection and emphasis clearly placed on surface quality over production rate and cost. Which is ironic when […]
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