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The Skinny

A Proven history of innovation since 1991.

Proudly developed in golden, colorado

We build bikes that help you cover more ground. From revolutionizing belt drives with CenterTrack to engineering the patented Living Link suspension system, we simplify complexity—so you can ride farther, faster, and with more confidence.

Spot’s innovative spirit runs deep. The Lumpkin family founded Avid in 1991, growing it into the largest brake manufacturer in the U.S. before acquiring Spot, where we turned the focus to building better bikes—starting with a cleaner, simpler drivetrain. By inventing the CenterTrack design, we transformed the reliability of belt drives, helping make Gates Carbon Drive the world’s most trusted and best-selling bicycle belt system.

Next, we set our sights on suspension bikes and engineered Living Link, a patented leaf-spring system that delivers advanced kinematics through a simpler, lighter, more responsive platform. Living Link is the foundation of our full-suspension bikes—giving riders unbeatable traction, efficient climbing, and a deep, controlled feel on descents. More information on Living Link can be found here.

Now we are reimagining full suspension. Spot’s patented Living Link system couples a leaf spring with the main pivot to improve pedaling efficiency and enhance the linkage’s energy return, providing a boost atop the spring curve that powers you over roots and rocks. The leaf spring stiffens the frame laterally by acting as a horizontal shear plane. It also eliminates the lower rear pivot set seen on short dual link designs. Your mechanic can thank us for that one. Not only is the efficiency, traction, and handling dramatically improved, the bike takes on square edged obstacles with buttery ease.

Spot’s imaginative spirit and attention to detail has paid off. Our bikes have won week-long stage races, powered countless weekend rampages, and enabled commuters to enjoy their daily route. Publications like Bicycling, Bike Mag, Pinkbike, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Outside, Mountain Bike Action, and more have praised Spot’s ingenuity. But we are not just obsessed engineering nerds. We also ride hard, bagging 250,000 feet of elevation per year per employee! We love to earn our turns! We call Golden, Colorado home, because there are trails right out our door. We bike to win, but moreover we bike to live.

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