Do you hate performance pressure, heart rate monitors and regulations? Do you want to have fun on the descent and love the challenge of technical trails? Do you love singletrack surfing and the rush of speed? And you want to experience all of this on one and the same bike, which you can also crank uphill without any problems? Then the Enduro category is the right place for you.
One bike for everything, that's what an enduro bike should look like: a flat geometry for good handling downhill, but which can be converted into uphill mode in a few simple steps. A chassis with 160 millimetres of suspension travel for rough terrain, but which can still be pedalled efficiently thanks to platform systems. And last but not least, the weight should be kept within limits. Because with bikes that weigh more than 16kg, it's better to take the gondola uphill. Uphill and downhill characteristics therefore require completely different requirements for the frame construction and the choice of add-on parts. The winner is the one who finds the best compromise for their bike. In this test field, the upper price limit of 2900 euros, which we set, makes the specification of the bikes a balancing act in the truest sense of the word.
The results of the test bikes can be found below as a PDF download.
