The best mountain bike test in the world – transparent, non-biased and objective.
Mountain bike tests need to become more objective, comprehensive and detailed. That’s why we founded bike-test.com. The only platform that looks at ALL bikes available on the market with an innovative testing system.
The mountain bike market is so vast and diverse that its extremely difficult to find the perfect bike for your personal needs. No matter whether you are a mountain bike beginner or a veteran bike nerd. That’s exactly why ex-mountain bike pro Ludwig Döhl founded bike-test.com. After his active career as a mountain biker, Ludwig Döhl worked for BIKE, Europe’s largest mountain bike magazine, for over six years. But Ludwig quit his last position as deputy editor-in-chief of BIKE to implement his own vision of Bike Test. And that vision includes a sophisticated, innovative and totally objective testing system that not only transparently sorts out the complexities of the market, but also gives you an assessment of every bike without being biased towards any brand. The intuitive filters on our mountain bike market overview site help everyone find the best bike, depending on their own personal preferences. The only question that remains is: How can the entire mountain bike market be evaluated in a uniform and, above all, meaningful way?
Which mountain bike components are used for evaluation
Overall, we look at each bike uniformly in over 100 meaningful criteria, which should give you a very good and detailed idea about the bike. Our evaluation takes into account all components that are relevant to the riding experience. The main components considered in our mountain bike rating system are:
Gearshift
Brake
Tires
Wheel
Chassis
seat post
Frame
Cockpit
The more than 100 criteria – which we evaluate in a standardized manner – are weighed up independently, depending on the intended use. And that´s the key to our statement quality. Our goal is not only to compare two rear derailleurs that are installed on different bikes, but a lot more: we want to give you an impression of the riding experience that you can expect from your future bike. And to do so, we have not only broken down and weighed up evaluation criteria in detail, but have also taken a look at the geometry of all bikes. But first things first.
We apply these evaluation criterias to our mountain bike tests
For the evaluation of the individual components, we use, among other things, the followng criteria. They get considered differently, depending on the component and to which area of the bike this part is installed
Weight of the component
ranking in the manufacturer-specific product hierarchy
product-related physical facts (e.g. larger brake discs have better braking performance. A larger bandwidth of a gear shift is better than a smaller one…)
general design-related facts (e.g. folding tires are of higher quality than clincher tires.)
function of a component (experience from practice and everyday life in bicycle workshops)
product specific criteria (e.g. tread depth of tires)
material used for a component
Every evaluation contributes to a complete bike check on bike-test.com. Moreover, it can be traced back to one fact: EVERY BIKE, NO MATTER FROM WHICH MANUFACTURER, IS TREATED EXACTLY THE SAME. To make the whole thing as close to reality as possible, an example would be the rating of a brake for a downhill bike. It is, for example, more important at a DH bike than for a cross country race bike. This equation lends itself to get the most balanced and non-biased bike reviews on the market!
Mountain bike geometry – the soul of any bike.
Reach, stack, steering angle …? Excuse me, but what are you talking about? Anyone who deals intensively with bikes before buying is quickly overwhelmed by the technical jargon of the industry. We therefore not only evaluate the equipment of each bike, but also take a detailed look at its geometry. (In case you’re interested: We also explain the most important geometry measurements in an extra article) So that you don’t have to take a degree in mountain bike science yourself, we’ve analyzed the geometry of all bikes in a uniform way. With this analysis, we give you the following information:
How coherent is the geometry for the area of application of this bike (geo-fun factor).
How does the seating position of this bike turn out: Sporty or comfortable?
How is the handling of this bike on the trail: playful or smooth?
Is the frame size large or small?
CONCLUSION ON MOUNTAINBIKE TESTS
“After more than 15 years working as a professional bike tester, I have learned one thing above all. The motivation for a bike purchase is completely individual. At bike-test.com, we are the only platform in the world with a complete market overview, which can be filtered according to individual criteria. In addition, our innovative and absolutely objective test system allows detailed statements about each individual model. More service and better advice is offered by no other medium before buying a bike.”
... has spent more than 100,000 kilometers in the saddle of over 1000 different mountain bikes. The essence of many hours on the trail: Mountain bikes are awesome when they match your personal preferences! With this realization, he founded bike-test.com to assist cyclists in finding their very own dream bike.
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website and process your personal data (e.g. IP address), for example, to personalize content and ads, to integrate media from third-party providers or to analyze traffic on our website. Data processing may also happen as a result of cookies being set. We share this data with third parties that we name in the privacy settings.
The data processing may take place with your consent or on the basis of a legitimate interest, which you can object to in the privacy settings. You have the right not to consent and to change or revoke your consent at a later time. For more information on the use of your data, please visit our privacy policy.
You are under 16 years old? Then you cannot consent to optional services. Ask your parents or legal guardians to agree to these services with you.
Essential services are required for the basic functionality of the website. They only contain technically necessary services. These services cannot be objected to. • Hide service information
Purpose: Real Cookie Banner asks website visitors for consent to set cookies and process personal data. For this purpose, a UUID (pseudonymous identification of the user) is assigned to each website visitor, which is valid until the cookie expires to store the consent. Cookies are used to test whether cookies can be set, to store reference to documented consent, to store which services from which service groups the visitor has consented to, and, if consent is obtained under the Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF), to store consent in TCF partners, purposes, special purposes, features and special features. As part of the obligation to disclose according to GDPR, the collected consent is fully documented. This includes, in addition to the services and service groups to which the visitor has consented, and if consent is obtained according to the TCF standard, to which TCF partners, purposes and features the visitor has consented, all cookie banner settings at the time of consent as well as the technical circumstances (e.g. size of the displayed area at the time of consent) and the user interactions (e.g. clicking on buttons) that led to consent. Consent is collected once per language.
Use on legal basis of:Compliance with a legal obligation
Purpose:WPML ist ein Mehrsprachen-System für WordPress Websites. Die Cookies speichern die Sprache des Nutzers und können den Nutzer
auf die Version der Webseite umleiten, die der Sprache des Browsers des Nutzers entspricht.
Use on legal basis of: Legitimate interest
Purpose:WooCommerce is an e-commerce shop system that allows you to buy products on this website. Cookies are used to collect items in a shopping cart, to store the shopping cart of the user in the database of the website, to store recently viewed products to show them again and to allow users to dismiss notices in the online shop.
Use on legal basis of:Legitimate interest
Purpose:Elementor is a software used to create the layout of this website. Cookies are used to store the number of page views and active sessions of the user. The collected data is not used for analysis purposes, but only to ensure that, for example, hidden elements are not displayed again during multiple active sessions.
Use on legal basis of: Legitimate interest
Functional services are necessary to provide features beyond the essential functionality such as prettier fonts, video playback or interactive web 2.0 features. Content from e.g. video platforms and social media platforms are blocked by default, and can be consented to. If the service is agreed to, this content is loaded automatically without further manual consent.• Hide service information
Purpose: YouTube allows embedding content posted on youtube.com directly into websites. The cookies are used to collect visited websites and detailed statistics about the user behaviour. This data can be linked to the data of users registered on youtube.com and google.com or localized versions of these services. Consent
Purpose: WordPress as a content management system offers the possibility to write comments under blog posts and similar content. The cookie stores the name, e-mail address and website of a commentator to display it again if the commentator wants to write another comment on this website.
Use on legal basis of: Consent
Purpose:Google Maps displays maps on the website as iframe or via JavaScript directly embedded as part of the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.
Use on legal basis of:Consent
Purpose:Google Fonts is a service that downloads fonts that are not installed on the client device of the user and embeds them into the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the client of the user, but technical and personal data such as the IP address will be transmitted from the client to the server of the service provider to make the use of the service possible.
Use on legal basis of:Consent
Statistics services are needed to collect pseudonymous data about the visitors of the website. The data enables us to understand visitors better and to optimize the website. • Hide service information
Purpose: Google Analytics is a service for creating detailed statistics of user behavior on the website. The cookies are used to differentiate users, store campaign related information for and from the user and to link data from multiple page views.Use on legal basis of: Consent
Purpose: Google Analytics is a service for creating detailed statistics of user behavior on the website. The cookies are used to differentiate users, throttle the request rate, link the client ID to the AMP client ID of the user, store campaign related information for and from the user and to link data from multiple page views.Use on legal basis of: Consent
Purpose: Matomo is a service to create detailed statistics about the user behavior on the website. Cookies are used to differentiate users and to link data from multiple page views.Use on legal basis of: Consent
Marketing services are used by us and third parties to track the behaviour of individual visitors (across multiple pages), analyse the data collected and, for example, display personalized advertisements. These services enable us to track visitors across multiple websites.• Show service information
Purpose: Ad Inserter allows us to manage and target advertising based on the content of the website. Cookies are used to detect adblockers, to count the number of page views with an adblocker and to remember whether the user has already been redirected to a subpage that prompts him to switch off his adblocker. In addition, a cookie can be used to remember how often which advertising placement has already been displayed and how often the respective advertisement has been clicked on.Use on legal basis of: Consent
Purpose: Ad Inserter allows us to manage and target advertising based on the content of the website. Cookies are used to detect adblockers, to count the number of page views with an adblocker and to remember whether the user has already been redirected to a subpage that prompts him to switch off his adblocker. In addition, a cookie can be used to remember how often which advertising placement has already been displayed and how often the respective advertisement has been clicked on.Use on legal basis of: Consent
Purpose: Google AdSense allows websites to place ads from the Google Ads advertising network on their website and be paid for it. Cookies are used to distinguish users and track their behavior on the website in detail and to associate this data with advertising data from the Google Ads advertising network. The data will be evaluated for the targeted placement of ads and to measure the success of the advertising. This data may be linked to data about users who have signed in to their Google accounts on google.com or a localised version of Google.Use on legal basis of:Consent