This is the Highlander II - an all-carbon, all-conquering trail bike, freshly reconfigured for 2023 A bike for bike park laps, all day rides, messing about in the woods and everything in between. A bike for reaching the highest, most remote peaks, before screaming down the other side. If the Claymore is a huge broadsword, then the Highlander II is a rapier – lighter, perhaps; more agile – but just as deadly in the right hands. Deviate only design high pivot point bikes and have been doing so since 2016. The key feature of a high pivot suspension system, is its unique ability - thanks to the rearward axle path - to smooth out the nastiest of trails, and to stabilise the bike when it’s deep in the suspension stroke. Deviate is based in the Highlands of Scotland and although they test the bikes all over the world, as the saying goes “if it works in Scotland, it works anywhere.”