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The Ryve 115 effectively kills the notion that marathon race bikes are all work and no play. It’s a precision rocket made for conquering Leadville and the epic race dates that crowd your calendar--with a big dose of playfulness for everyday shredding. We created this bike for goal-oriented strivers who want—no, need--to win, but who also know that podiums and personal bests should never come at the expense of pure riding fun.

The Ryve 115 marks a paradigm shift for lightweight, full-suspension carbon race bikes due in large part to Spot’s Living Link™ suspension platform, our proprietary system that couples a titanium leaf spring with the main pivot. Living Link™ has won accolades from journalists and riders alike as the most efficient suspension design on the market. If you read mountain bike reviews, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the efficiency of Living Link™ on our longer-travel models Mayhems. Our goal with the Ryve 115 is to bring these benefits to marathon racers, weekend warriors, and anyone looking to Cover More Ground.

The beauty of Living Link™ is that it’s engineered to be ridden wide open on climbs. Forget locking out. Living Link™ is designed and tuned to deliver an energy boost over roots and rocks while climbing, which means you can stand and stomp with no efficiency loss. The titanium leaf spring, helps to provide an anti-squat response that effectively stores the energy created when the suspension compresses. Then, as the leaf spring returns to its un-compressed state, Living Link™ releases this stored energy at the optimal time in the pedaling stroke. Our leaf spring has other benefits, too: It eliminates the most failure-prone cartridge bearings, decreasing maintenance while simultaneously increasing the frame’s lateral stiffness. Many bikes in this category use simplistic single-pivot suspension that are way too mushy. The Ryve 115’s Living Link™ delivers best-in-class suspension kinematics for trail-hugging efficiency.