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You said we listened: the best mountain bike brands of 2019

Which are the best bike brands in 2019? Which companies are most likely to receive your hard-earned cash in 2020? Here you can find the most important findings of our 2019 reader survey, which is an important indicator of consumer trends for the industry and offers us important insights for our editorial work!

First of all, we want to thank all of you again for your participation, engagement and trust! The fact that over 18.000 bikers around the world answered 80 questions and provided us with such detailed feedback (the free text answers garnered several essays!) can’t be taken for granted! All the more so when we consider that the average time to complete the survey was a huge 23 minutes! In turn, from the very bottom of our hearts: grazie mille, muchas gracias, tack, merci beaucoup, どうも, dzięki, obrigado, спасибо, hvala, teşekkürler, 谢谢你, شكرا, děkuji, hartelijk bedankt, thanks a lot!

But what exactly do we do with your responses? The results of our reader survey provide significant input into our editorial planning and direction. The key: producing relevant stories. In addition, the survey is an important tool to help us select the most relevant (to you) brands for our group tests. As much as we would like to review them all, we can only test so many bikes and products, meaning that we can’t compare every option on the market for a given category. Finally, your feedback helps us determine the most relevant price points for our tests.

Your responses regarding your riding preferences and the question of how, where and how far you ride, as well as what you look for when riding, give us additional insights into your everyday riding, which in turn feeds back into our test sessions in the form of the criteria and focus for our reviews. You play an essential role in helping to shape our work!

Below, you won’t only find out which brands you think make the best mountain bike products, but also who you’ll buy your next mountain bike from. And of course, the lucky prize winners have already been notified. As soon as their bikes have been delivered, we’ll be posting pictures of the happy owners with their new rides!

The best bike brand

Our readers responded: Santa Cruz build the best bikes – again!

Your next mountain bike

YT Industries ranks as our readers’ most popular brand, a statement based on which bike brand they are most likely to buy for their next bike.

The results: in-depth

So how have these results been compiled? It’s really simple: in our readers’ survey we asked which brands create the best bikes and which brand you are most like to buy. As a bi-lingual magazine, we seized the luxury to obtain and analyse data not only from our German-speaking readers but also from the international readers of our English edition. We then chose to keep these separate, and it threw up some exciting results.

Best Brand 2019: Parts & Accessories

A top-flight bike is naturally more than just the sum of its parts, but even the best bikes are only as good as their weakest component. So which brand makes the best products? We asked, you responded: here are the best brands across 13 different categories.

The results: in-depth

Just like with the bikes, we’ve compiled two separate sets of data when it comes to parts and accessories based on German-speaking and international readers. While there’s common consensus in certain categories, there are stark contrasts to be seen in the brand choices across others. The definition of ‘Best Brand’ refers to the brands that received the most votes in total; languages and nationalities have no effect on this result. But as you can see for yourself, the breakdown of the results is particularly interesting:


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