What is a freerider? A bike with 180 millimetres of travel, a wide cockpit and a slack 65-degree steering angle? The new enduro bikes have it all. So a bike for fun downhill, fun in the park, fun when it gets really rough? A 180cc enduro bike is also suitable for this and is also a few kilos lighter. Well. And now? Now we have to rethink things a bit. And accept that the heavy freeriders in this test are limited in terms of their range of use.
Suitable for hurtling down mountains and for the bike park. And for little else. They are not do-it-all bikes. They are closer to downhill bikes than enduro bikes. They are more stable, with robust parts for a long service life, low centres of gravity and full, steel-sprung chassis. Or rather, they should be, because they only have a right to exist as specialists. So no compromises. You make compromises with an enduro bike.
You can find the test results of these bikes in the PDF download below:
- Commencal Supreme 8
- Cube Hanzz
- Marin Quake 7.9
- Morewood Zama
- Propain Spindrift Park
- Rockmachine Whizz 30
- Scott Voltage FR 10
- Solid Mission 7 Comp
- Specialised SX Trail I
- Trek Scratch 9
- Univega Ram FR-5
- YT Tues Freeride
