Pinarello launched the Dogma XC Hardtail in the run-up to the 2023 World Championships and it faced a baptism of fire on the trails of Glentress, Scotland as Pinarello’s latest XC race bike. While Great Britain's Tom Pidcock carved out yet another historic XCO win in the men's race aboard the full-suspension Dogma XC, it was the newly debuted Dogma XC Hardtail that rose to the occasion at the 2023 World Championship super event. Piloted by Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the hardtail proved to be a formidable tool, with the French rider winning both the Short Track and XCO Women's World Championship titles.
Pinarello developed the hardtail for Ferrand-Prévot as part of her 2024 Paris Olympic Games bid. Its early success has since been further validated by XCO gold in the Paris Olympics and a first-place finish in the short track at the European Championships as well. To understand what makes Pinarello’s Dogma XC Hardtail such a dominant race bike, I brought it back to the Scottish trails where it first claimed gold.
