What's next?" asks tester and photographer Wolfi (Wolfgang Watzke), seemingly bored. We'd called Wolfi to the FREERIDE office at the crack of dawn, because we're about to set off on a bike test in our test area in Latsch in South Tyrol. "Enduros again?" Wolfi asks. "No, freeriders!" we answer so abruptly that Wolfi raises his eyebrows, which are far too bushy. Surprise! Yes, we haven't had freeriders in our programme for a long time. Not because we had lost interest in freeriders, no, the former premier class of gravity bikes simply no longer existed. It was replaced by the all-rounder Enduro. The few classic freeriders with a lot of travel and a pointed purpose therefore led a niche existence at best and were regarded more as a relic from days gone by. Even in the bike park - the favourite territory of freeriders - big bikes with their forgiving double bridge forks took over and chased the freerider into extinction. In short: the bike class whose name we carry in our title was dying. Schneuf! Or was it?
The new generation of freeriders has a wide range of applications. You can find the test results of these freeride bikes as a PDF in the download area below:
- Canyon Torque CF 9.0
- Cube Hanzz 190 TM 27.5
- YT Capra 27 CF Pro
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Laurin Lehner
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