The Jamis Dragon is a steel-hearted legend, and still one of the finest-riding hardtails to ever put knobby to planet earth. We could let it rest on its laurels, but that’s not the Jamis way. So we turned up the heat.

Dragon 29 calls up the very best steel around, Reynolds 853 air-hardened tubing that’s “activated” by weld heat, actually getting harder and tougher at the weld zone, where stresses are greatest. Add in our famously dialed hardtail geometry, tweaked for 29” hoops, and you get a smoothly efficient ride that’s the benchmark for resilience and response, the yardstick by which other bikes are measured.