More than 50,000 euros for eleven test bikes? Are they crazy? No, the BIKE editors know exactly how much the average biker is willing and able to spend on their hobby. After all, that's what we've been asking you for years in our reader survey. However, the high-tech bikes in the test represent the pinnacle of what is technically feasible. Regardless of the equipment (the manufacturers only use the best in this price range and score similarly), the performance of the frame and the overall concept of frame and suspension contribute more to the final score than in tests in the middle and lower price ranges. There, differences in the equipment have a much greater effect. The fascination emanating from high-end bikes is undisputed. The emotions are fuelled above all by the carbon representatives in this group: Specialized "Stumpjumper FSR", Scott "Genius" and the brand new Canyon "Spectral". The testers almost overlooked the Trek "Fuel EX". The Americans have an atypical focus on understatement, the "Fuel EX" hardly differs visually from its aluminium brothers despite the carbon technology.
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Cannondale Prophet SL 1
Canyon Spectral Ltd.
Cube Stereo XTR
Focus Thunder XTR
Fusion Raid SL Endurance WC
Ghost AMR 9500
Marin Mount Vision Pro
Rotwild RFC 0.3 Cross Pro
Scott Genius MC-10
Specialised S-Works Stumpjumper FSR Carbon
Trek Fuel EX 9.5
