A brand new up to date Commencal Meta HT V3 brings extra consolation to the favored alloy hardtail body, plus refined geometry, built-in body protections, and DH-level EFBE Tri-Take a look at certification now backed by a lifetime body guarantee. Commencal has lengthy thought-about their Meta HT essentially the most versatile and high-value bike of their line-up. And this newest evolution seems to be higher than ever with a couple of key trendy updates…
Since its origins as one of many early hardcore enduro hardtails, Commencal continued to evolve the Meta HT with geometry and body spec tweaks through the years to construct a low-cost mountain bike that would cowl all the pieces out of your native path rides to bike mountain days. And this latest model seems to be higher than ever in shiny Pure White with new built-in protectors and a redesigned seat cluster aiming to supply improved rider consolation.
“Driving a hardtail is a real way of thinking; it’s about placing the enjoyment of driving on the heart of the sport, with out artifice. Don’t be fooled by appearances, the META HT is able to dealing with all trails: from small pure singles to essentially the most difficult enduro specials. In its final V3 model, the META HT returns with a totally redesigned aluminum body to enhance consolation, rethought geometry to encourage confidence, and new body protections to experience with peace of thoughts.”
OK, so what’s new?
Hardtail Body Updates
The triple butted aluminum body now contains a utterly new seat cluster design. The seatstays now utterly bypass the seattube to get welded onto the bent toptube. That is meant to permit extra consolation flex within the seattube and seatpost, whereas sustaining body stiffness.
Preserving its gentle however powerful ethos, Commencal made 3 new protectors to maintain your new Meta HT wanting good and working extra quietly. A brand new molded chainstay protector will get a tall hole tube on high to damp the noise of chain slap, paired to a brand new small seatstay guard for much more rear-end safety. Then, a bolt-on protector deflects rock strikes from the underside of the underside bracket, virtually a 3rd of the best way up the downtube, protecting this hardtail wanting nice for years. There’s additionally a brand new stainless-steel anti-chainsuck plate.
Oh, and naturally, it now will get a UDH to suit all the newest T-type Transmission derailleurs.
Revised Geometry
Paired with 150mm forks, the Meta HT hardtail has all the time been fairly progressive, however this time they’re getting even a bit bit longer – now with body Attain from 410-480mm. Headtube angles keep slack at 64.5° (a working 1/2° slacker change they already launched for the reason that final full Meta HT replace in 2020) and seat tubes steepen a level to 75.5°.
The final iteration of the hardtail already lowered standover heights to provide riders extra selection on sizing, and longer droppers. Nevertheless it appears riders wished much more. So Commencal listened, and shortened seattubes by 2.5 & 3cm on the 2 bigger sizes to suit much more riders. And BBs additionally get 1cm decrease, so extra standover once more. And chainstay size turns into size-specific for a extra balanced experience (425-440mm) throughout.
Tech particulars
- triple-butted 6061-T6 alloy mountain bike body
- 1.5″ straight steerer and ZS56/ZS56 headset for absolutely built-in inner cable routing or angle-adjust headsets
- nonetheless consists of exterior cable ports for typical inner routing, too!
- max 29×2.6″ tire clearance
- BSA threaded backside bracket
- UDH
- new molded rubber chainstay, seatstay & downtube protectors
- 2 bottle/software cage mounts per body – on downtube & underneath the toptube
- features a Fidlock magnetic bottle mount base (no bottle, although)
- accessible in 4 sizes: S-XL
- dimension S is a mullet 27.5 rear/29″ entrance; sizes M-XL are full 29er (a smaller XS mini-mullet on 26/27.5″ wheels could also be coming quickly)
- 1860g body weight declare
- EFBE Tri-Take a look at Licensed for the very best DH/Freeride Class 5
- lifetime body guarantee towards manufacturing defects for the unique proprietor
Commencal’s revamped Meta HT V3 hardtail is now accessible both as a 745€ frame-only possibility or a single 3175€ full Signature construct with a 150mm Fox 36 Manufacturing facility fork and a brand new SRAM Eagle 90 mechanical transmission drivetrain.
Each can be found to pre-order now. However, the A La Carte frame-only possibility will ship first in mid-Might, whereas the entire bike is slated for June 2025 supply. Within the meantime, v2 bikes which might be nonetheless in inventory are on sale.
