Just how much do you have to spend to get an affordable enduro bike that is ready to go, out of the box, with no extra costs? We review 9 of the best affordable enduro bikes in this group-test to find out.

Sometimes you just hit the sweet spot. The point when you’ve drunk exactly the right amount of beer to become a pool god who cannot miss, or that moment in your life when your income first exceeds your outgoings, just before kids come along. The sweet spot. But do the same rules apply when you buy a bike? At the very affordable end of the spectrum, the more you spend the better the bike becomes, but with top-of-the-line bike prices now nudging an eye watering five figures, surely there‘s a sweet spot in the middle where you get all the performance you could ever really need?

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