Great video, as usual. I hope that you continue to like the bike. I went from a 26” hardtail to a 29” full suspension XC bike. I was overwhelmed by the difference.

Thats a nice bike. As you ride it more the longer bike will become more instinctive on turning with the rear in tight sections rather than turning with the front. The DB Release is a very short bike with very short rear end, but while the short rear end can make it feel faster and make it nimble in tight slow sections, that shortness makes it somewhat twitchy and that requires a huge amount of mental effort to keep it under control at speed. The long wheelbase and long rear end of the Sentinel, once you get used to it, will let you look down the trail 100 feet out, where as in my experience, the short bikes always require me to look 20-50 feet out. Short bikes feel fast, long bikes are fast. 🙂 Unless you are racing XC. 😃

Thanks. If it's anywhere near good as my scout, you'll love it

I don't care what you say, as an average rider, I love my Sentinel! Good bike and so far very solid. I really like how sturdy it feels, that's a big plus from me 😂

Did you make sure the BB was torqued? Mine has a loose BB shell almost immediately.

Yeah man, ticks are now the scariest part of mountain biking. The rest is child's play in comparison!

Is the noise from the bike, the internal cables rattling inside? I recently did a Transition Scout build and they sent me a piece of foam to put on the internally routed cables so that they don’t smack into each other and make noise. From the video it sounds more like a clicking sound than a creak but not sure what it sounds like in person

where were you riding in this video?

Crazy that a company held to such high standards regularly sends out creaky bikes 😂