As you are standing in the bike shop, you suddenly have a childhood flashback. You’re in the toy store with Grandma and you can’t decide between the BB gun, skateboard, and radio-controlled Trans Am. Grandma simply smiles and says, “You’ll have to pick just one”. Just one? One?!? Your mind begins to race. You have to have the BB gun so you can go shoot cans with the kid next door. Leaving the skateboard behind isn’t an option either since all the kids in your neighborhood ride theirs to school except you. And the radio controlled Trans Am? It’s so cool, you’ll just die if you don’t have one. You start to cry, thinking that Grandma will feel sorry for you and cave in. She doesn’t. This makes you mad and you end up throwing a tantrum in the middle of the store. Of course, this gets you nowhere as Grandma drags you out of the store, kicking, screaming, and toyless.

Years later, you’re faced with a similar dilemma buying a bike. You like to ride a little bit of everything from steep technical downhills to long fire road climbs to rolling singletrack. You’ll even hit a little jump every now and then if it’s on the trail. Sure, you could buy a different bike for each one of these purposes, but you can only buy one.

This could be a problem…or you could just buy a Xeon. It’s a true all-mountain bike designed to do just what the name implies: be ridden all over the mountain. It climbs like a mountain goat yet gives you a plush 6.3” of travel for the downhills. This is the one bike that truly does it all without compromises. The Xeon is quite happy being an “only child”.

So when Grandma, your significant other, or your piggybank tells you “you’ll have to pick just one”, there’s no reason to leave the bike shop kicking and screaming. Just buy the Xeon. It’s the only bike you’ll need.