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When we swung our legs over the new YT IZZO for our First Ride feature a couple of months ago, we were blown away by how well the bike pedaled and carried speed over flat terrain. But what if our tired old legs were just playing a trick on us, so used to dragging our big enduro bikes up a hill that we had simply lost our reference points? To put our first impressions to the test, we called in some reinforcements to help us evaluate the IZZO against some seriously fast competition. Check out the video review below to...

Downhill bikes that are like motorcycles. Enduro bikes that are like mini-downhill bikes. Trail bikes that perform like enduro bikes. Cross-country bikes with rad geometry like trail bikes. Is everyone trying to step it up a notch? Well, no, not really, but it just feels that way. Take the Cannondale Scalpel, for example. It is a bike with pure cross-country racing running through its fibers. Now consider the new 2021 Cannondale Scalpel SE. Cannondale decided to sprinkle a little extra something special on the XC bike while bumping up the front and rear travel to 120mm, thereby slacking out some...