The Chromag Reazon Keeps It Real

The Chromag Reazon Keeps It Real originally appeared on BikeMag.

The new Chromag Reazon is a mid-travel, steel, full-suspension trail bike that blends the versatility of a trail bike with the long and slack geometry that inspires confidence to tackle bigger features, but there are a few details on the new Reazon that make it incredibly easy to live with, and will likely appeal to many riders.

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The term “trail bike” is a pretty broad one, and rightfully so, as the term is the ideal catch-all for any bike in the 130-160mm travel range, and it is oftentimes the perfect bike for the vast majority of riders. Mid travel, versatile geometry, and the capability to ride just about anything you feel like. Call them trail bikes, All-mountain bikes, or whatever you want, but the Reazon strikes me as a well-thought-out and straightforward mountain bike that will be a steadfast companion no matter what you’re riding.

Chomag Reazon Overview

- Versatile geometry for confident descending and upright climbing
- Travel: 135mm rear | 160mm front
- 29" wheels (mullet link in the works).
- 4130 heat-treated Chromoly front triangle | 6066 T-6 Alloy rear
- Robust hardware and bearings at all pivot points.
- Tough, reliable, easy to maintain.
- Rockshox Super Deluxe Ultimate rear shock with reservoir.
- ED coated 4130 steel tubing.
- MSRP starting at $2,750.00 USD for frame and shock

The industry has moved to adopt internal routing, electronic-only drivetrains, and ever-evolving standards that make current bikes somewhat tricky to maintain with rudimentary home-workshop setups - not the Reazon.

The Reason for the Reazon

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As Chromag puts it: The Reazon is a way for them to get back to its all-mountain roots. Injecting more fun and play into the trails while still being able to handle itself.

The Reazon takes what the brand has learned from its Darco - a shorter travel trail bike with conservative geo, and the Lowdown - a long travel, big hit, tech-gobbling enduro machine, and blends it into a wonderfully balanced and capable 130mm rear, 160mm front, steel do-it-all platform. The Reazon is Capable of it all, but really shines on slightly smaller features, but won't leave you out to dry on the bigger hits and gnarlier sections of trail. It’s simply a mountain bike that is made to be ridden like a mountain bike. Thanks to the ED coated, 4130 heat-treated Chromoly and 6066 T-6 alloy tubing, external brake routing, and familiar standards, the Reazon is as easy to love as it is to maintain.

The Reazon has no hidden or hard-to-access hardware, sliders, or concentric multi-link pivots; every pivot can be accessed, bolt-checked, and worked on without taking the whole bike apart just to get to a single bolt or pivot location.

All the pivots on the Reazon employ the ever-reliable, well-sealed, long-lasting, and easily sourced Enduro MAX bearings. The pivot hardware is machined to high standards from high-strength 7075 aluminum, and the custom-drawn tubing is made from the same 4130 chromoly steel that makes up the backbone of the Chromag Bikes lineup.

For the Reazon, Chromag has stayed true to the 4-bar suspension layout on all it's full-suspension frames. The Reazon has a main pivot located right above the bottom bracket, a seat tube-mounted rocker link that drives the vertically oriented, trunnion-mounted shock, keeping lateral forces at a minimum to reduce stiction and binding.

The reliable and predictable 4-bar design provides enough support and performance for Chromag to eek out every drop of the suspension characteristics for the Reazon—meaning that the leverage ratio, progression, anti-squat, and anti-rise that hit the target for any trail, under any rider, in any condition.

Pricing and Build Options

Frame and Shock - $2,750.00 USD 

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XO Transmission - $7,300.00 USD

SRAM Eagle 90 - $5,300.00 USD

Geometry

The Reazon geometry sits in the territory of modern trail geo. The headtube is slack for an average trail bike at 64°, which makes for confidence on steeper descents. The seat tube sits at 78° to foster a central position when seated, and the short standover means riders can pay more attention to reach numbers without worry of bonking bottoms when getting low on the bike. The chainstays are a medium-ish 438mm, and a medium-low bottom bracket (-35mm) find a middle-ground for both fall-line sends while keeping the bike agile, allowing for quick reactions and ripping corners. Goldilocks approves.

This story was originally reported by BikeMag on Aug 13, 2025, where it first appeared.