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A muffled clunk. A loud hiss. And the white latex milk fountain sprays out of the rear tyre like sparkling wine from a magnum bottle during a victory celebration. The fifth defect in the fifth descent emphasises quite obviously: The material is not up to the course. Despite the two bar pressure in the tyre, the Exo+ carcass has little to offer against the extremely rocky ground in the Bad Hindelang bike park. The first use before the actual comparison test already leaves heavy marks. Our weekend excursion left quite a few dents in the Last Coal's aluminium rims. Still better than the broken carbon rim that involuntarily turned my mate into a hiker.
With spare tyres and seven enduro bikes in our luggage, we head to the Serfaus bike park the following week. This time, all the enduro bikes have to prove what they can do in a comparison. To say it up front: The puncture luck played along in Serfaus. Not a single flat tyre or other failure sabotaged the test. And that with over 4000 metres of downhill per bike and a tyre pressure of 1.6 bar at the front and 1.8 bar at the rear.
Exciting: Our test field in the 4000 euro class is extremely heterogeneous. The first carbon frames are already available at this price. However, this presents manufacturers with the fundamental decision of whether to invest their money in the frame or in better equipment. When it comes to the suspension, the manufacturers take different approaches, even though almost all of them rely on a 170 mm suspension fork.
In our test, we reveal the strengths and weaknesses we discovered when testing the seven enduro bikes for around €4000. You can download the entire article from BIKE 10/2021 as a PDF below.
The test report costs €1.99. Why not free of charge? Because quality journalism has a price. In return, we guarantee independence and objectivity. This applies in particular to the tests in BIKE. We don't charge for them, but the opposite is the case: we do charge for them - tens of thousands of euros every year.
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- Giant Reign 29 SX
- Last Coal
- Scott Ransom 920
- Mondraker Superfoxy R
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