HD6 - MBA Editor's Choice

“2023 was an excit­ing year full of inno­v­a­tive new prod­ucts and bikes. There were so many, we had a hard time set­tling on a final list, but a select few stand out and rise above the rest, earn­ing a call-out from the MBA edi­tors and wreck­ing crew.

What we think about when rid­ing an enduro bike is bal­ance in both climb­ing and descend­ing. The Ibis HD6 is an excel­lent bal­anced bike that com­plains lit­tle on the ascents and allows its rid­er to nail each cor­ner, rock sec­tion, jump and chute with com­po­sure. The sus­pen­sion is both sup­ple and sup­port­ive, mean­ing trac­tion and small-bump absorp­tion are at a pre­mi­um while not sac­ri­fic­ing big-hit resilience. This bike had us impressed to the point where we had mul­ti­ple wreck­ing crew test rid­ers con­spir­ing to buy the bike even from the first ride.”