SONDER
Price: £2,299.00 / From: Alpkit, alpkit.com/sonder
The latest development from homegrown success story Alpkit, the Sonder Evol joins a healthy and esoteric lineup of hardtails, gravel bikes, adventure machines, and road bikes.
Within Sonder’s bike range you’ll find titanium, carbon, and aluminium, as well as a strong bias towards bikepacking – hardly a surprise given its parent company’s outdoor roots.
After delivering the well-received Transmitter hardtail, Neil Sutton (Sonder’s head honcho, lead designer and allround bike Thend), decided it was time to build something with bounce. Enter stage left: the Evol (‘love’, backwards by the way).
You can tell a lot about how a brand wants to position its bike by the type of rider and the trails used for its launch. New downhill bike? Hand it to the fastest racer you can find and shoot it flat out down a gnarly racecourse. New carbon cross-country bike? Find a Lycra-clad whippet and get them smashing out intervals. So when Sonder shot photos to promote the 27.5in wheeled Evol, the bike was handed to none other than ex-Hollywood stuntman Rob Jarman, and off they all went to the Lake District for some big mountain good times. An appropriate setting it would seem given that – according to Sonder – the Evol is a sprightly trail bike that allows you “to climb without (too much) effort, let loose on the downhills and fiick round every twist and turn along the way”. Sounds fun, eh?
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