Rocky Mountain's 2024 Altitude Carbon 70 Coil offers plush suspension but delights on climbs with a deceptively lightweight ride.
Click to email a link to a friend This spring Rocky Mountain Bikes released their redesigned 2024 Altitude, featuring an old-but-new LC2R suspension linkage. Initially introduced almost 20 years ago, the modernized LC2R linkage gives the Altitude bump-eating capability that bests other RMB bikes I’ve tested.
RMB’s Ride 4 chip allows riders to fine-tune the bike’s geometry and shock rate. You can choose from a slacker/more progressive position or a steeper/more linear setup. The new Altitude’s head tube angles are quite slack, varying from 63° to 63.8°. Aside from the slightly conservative reach, the Altitude has typical modern geometry. The steering angles are nice and slack, and the seat tube is steep. I found the medium frame’s 440mm rear end just long enough to provide great climbing traction, particularly on steep uphill bursts.
Despite a noticeable degree of pedal bob, partially from the Fox DHX2 Factory coil shock, the Altitude pedaled quite well on the trails. On paved surfaces, even with the shock in Firm mode, each pedal stroke produces noticeable movement from the rear end. Left open, the shock will bob freely on roads and pathways . However, on trail, the Altitude 70 Coil climbed better than expected.
When I moved the Ride 4 chip into its slackest position, the bike got just slightly more comfortable on steep terrain. Again, there’s only a 0.5° difference between the two settings I rode, but on back-to-back test laps, there was an appreciable difference.
I like to jump, so I was pleased to find the Altitude Carbon 70 Coil was great in the air. Even with the coil shock the linkage provided predictable and lively pop, and with that ‘lighter than it is’ feel whipping the Altitude around in the air was fun and easy. The Altitude Carbon 70 Coil’s Shimano XT shifting provided near-perfect performance, and the XT Trail 4-piston brakes on 203mm rotors offer more than ample power and good modulation.
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