Video: Rupert Walker and Liam Mullany

The past seven years represent an evolution in the Bible of Bike Tests, from a print-only buyer’s guide into the multimedia bike-review extravaganza that is this 8th Bible. It’s been a process, and on a few occasions we’ve just straight up blown it, like that one time we didn’t use microphones.

This year, we’re proud to present the best Bible to date–a guide to 35 of the year’s most promising bikes, selected by Bike’s gear editor, Ryan Palmer, and tested on the rapidly expanding network of trails in Northwest Arkansas. As always, our aim with this year’s test is to inform and entertain. That means we won’t necessarily discuss the minutiae of every tube length and angle, or every component on each bike–our Roundtable Reels and reviews instead represent what each group of testers felt was essential about each bike. We’ve kept the videos candid, and we hope you have as much fun watching them as we had making them.

Photo Credit: Bruno Long

You can get a copy of the 2017 Bible of Bike Tests on print and digital newsstands now, and we’ve kicked off the online roll-out of our Roundtable Reels today with one of the most exciting bikes of the year–Trek’s Slash 29.

The rest of the Long Travel class is also posted, so you can either hide under your desk and binge watch them all right now at work, wait ’til you get home if you’ve got some semblance of self-control, or just take it easy and watch each review as we feature them on the homepage over the coming weeks.

We’ll be launching the rest of the reviews throughout January. Here’s when you can expect each category to be live:

Long Travel: Live now!

Mid Travel – January 17th

Women’s – January 24th

Short Travel – January 31st

We’ll be announcing each category launch, and, as always, you can access all the live reviews through the Bible landing page.