The top topics in BIKE 12/2021

BIKE 12/2021 - available from 2 November. Order the current BIKE home delivery free of charge or read the digital edition in the BIKE app for iOS or Android. A particularly favourable and convenient experience BIKE subscription. Here are the top topics of this issue:

Test and technology

Rockshox Flight Attendant: The electronic suspension in the first test

Rockshox counters the revolutionary Fox Live Valve system with a wireless electronic suspension system. Whether the new Flight attendant system outstripping the competition and ushering in a new era, we have already been able to test it extensively.

Rocksteady Magic: The new freewheel crank from Intend

Can mountain bike gears be revolutionised again? Cornelius Kapfinger from Intend tries it and transplants the freewheel from the rear wheel hub into his Rocksteady Magic crank. What are the benefits and does it work? We explain.

New products: The most exciting bikes and parts of the coming season

Thanks to detailed improvements Trail and all-mountain bikes today is a perfect balancing act between touring suitability and downhill talent. At least if you are prepared to dig deep into your pockets. In addition: Lightweight pads and trail helmets, ergonomic saddles and infotainment at a glance.

Individual tests: 5 brand new models in laboratory and practical tests

The 2021 season is slowly creeping up on us, but the first New products of the 2022 vintage in the starting blocks. We have tested five delicacies from light racers to all-mountain bikes with electric suspension.

Endurance test: Bikes and parts in tough everyday editorial work

Wetness, mud and sometimes even sunshine: our Dauertest bikes and parts had to eat up a lot of kilometres over the course of a season. We then dismantled them in the laboratory and scrutinised every detail. The result.

Service

Test crash sensors: safety systems for mountain biking

Bruises and chafed skin are part and parcel of mountain biking. But it can also quickly become dangerous. Especially if you are travelling alone, you can't always hope for help in the forest. This clever gadgets ask for help when you can't do it yourself.

Travel and tours

Photo story Zermatt: Super trails around the Matterhorn

Highest railway: The mountain railways around the Matterhorn are usually packed in summer. The trails have also been Zermatt never for yourself - unless you are travelling to the season finale and hope to get there before the cold snap.

Trans Bayerwald: Three days on flowing trails

After the sabre: once chosen by Slavic mercenaries as a robbery route, rarely used by hikers: three days on the Pandurensteig trail through the Bavarian Forest along a hidden rocky ridge from Cham to Passau.

News

Magazine

• Celebrating again at last: the best of the BIKE Festival in Riva
• Anniversary: 20 years of the Red Bull Rampage
• World Marathon Championships: Andi Seewald wins first gold medal for Germany

Maximum optimisation: Focus on Tuning & Custom

There is only one best bike in the world: the one on which you feel completely comfortable. If standard bikes don't make you happy, the custom and tuning market offers endless possibilities. In 20 pages, we show you what's important and how bikes can be customised on a budget. Here is an overview of the content:

Report | BIKE reader Günter Jäck welds his dream frame at Nicolai

Journal | Material, costs, geometry: what you need to know

Interview | Chris Reichling from Crossworx on the fascination of customisation

Workshop | How to make a bike more beautiful, lighter and more ergonomic

Tried and tested | Powder coating for home use: the custom look from a can

Entertainment

RIDE GREEN: House call at Sram in Schweinfurt

At the presser: Sram has played a key role in shaping technical progress in mountain biking. Following its participation in our RIDE-GREEN campaign, the world's second largest component manufacturer also wants to set important trends in sustainability in the future.

Red Bull Radical: BIKE at the supposedly toughest MTB race in Germany

Tough, tough and a little bit nasty: with obstacles and time pressure, the Red Bull Radical take cross-country sport to new heights. Our author went along for the ride and experienced a psycho trip at its finest.

Contents: BIKE 12/2021 at a glance

All test bikes in the magazine

Fullys

• Bold Linkin
• Cannondale Scalpel Carbon SE1
• Canyon Spectral CFR
• Mondraker Raze
• Rocky Mountain Element
• Silverback Stratos SBC
• Simplon Cirex SL
• Trek Top Fuel 8
• YT Jeffsy Uncaged 6

Hardtails

• Canyon Exceed CFR Team
• Corratec Revo Bow

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