The Transition Bikes Triple

Rolling on good old 26" hoops, the Transition Triple will be available in a single size with a reach measurement of 429mm, and in either 'Poppy Red' or 'Neon Green'. They'll also offer a frame-only option.

Delivering a paltry 100mm of travel through a RockShox Monarch shock, the Triple was not designed for hammering through rock gardens or ripping down off-piste singletrack in the boonies. This is a thoroughbred slopestyle bike designed to take the sting out of landing jumps and drops, and to keep you grinning from ear to ear. The team at Transition have really worked their magic on the aesthetics for the new Triple, delivering a great looking bike that certainly lives up to the legacy of its predecessor, the Transition Double, a bike that was possibly ahead of its time and garnered a lot of attention from those looking for a slopestyle bike before such a thing existed.

A concentric bottom bracket pivot, similar to those found on other slopestyle-specific bikes, helps maintain consistent chain tension when running a single-speed setup. The ultra short 390mm chainstays behind it will only help boost the fun factor, which will surely love some rear wheel action.

The stock cable routing, a setup long employed on BMX bikes, is a nice touch and should help keep your cockpit tangle free and your front brake working, bar spin after bar spin. Sliding vertical dropouts, a derailleur hanger, and ISCG 05 mounts give the Triple a degree of flexibility should you want to run gears.

There's no escaping the reality of how much fun this bike looks, but we'll have to wait a few more weeks for the official line from Transition, so watch the space...

There's certainly been an increase in the number of brands adding slopestyle-specific bikes to their range recently. This trend doesn't look to be slowing down, yet in recent years, one of the first brands to offer a slopestyle bike to consumers, Transition Bikes, pulled their model from the line. For all intents and purposes, it looked like Transition had fallen out of love with super-short travel rigs designed for sailing over jumps, instead diverting their energy to the trail and all-mountain sector. Little did we know that couldn't be further from the truth...Let's just touch on something about slopestyle bikes very quickly. They are unlike the vast majority of mountain bikes out there, which most of us can sling a leg over and go for a ride on - perhaps not to their fullest, but we can get down a trail or two. Slopestyle bikes, however, are a completely different breed, but be that as it may, put your hands up if you've always wanted one? While not that many of us ride 'slopestyle', who wouldn't love one of these in their collection for a casual rip around the pump track, BMX track, dirt jump sessions or what about some slalom racing action as well?