Atherton Bikes teased us with a new addition to its highly successful mountain bike range back in January. The brand is celebrating five award-winning years of success, which includes Charlie Hatton's World Championship title, World Cup wins for Andi Kolb, and a return to the World Cup top step for Rachel Atherton. As part of the ongoing celebrations, the brand released a fairly secretive image of Dan Atherton at Dyfi Bike Park riding what appeared to be a prototype alloy version of its big mountain enduro MTB, and it had us guessing just what the latest model from Atherton Bikes would be...
The cat is now well out of the bag and we no longer need to speculate because the Atherton S.170 is here. The S.170 is a far more accessible range from a price point of view, in comparison to its carbon-framed siblings like the Atherton AM.170 starting at $7,355 / £6,950 / €6,776 and topping out at $8,678 / £8,200 / €7,995.
