Ultimate Nerd Quiz: Can You Guess these 2020 Bikes From Their Silhouettes?
Do all modern bikes just look like a Session? If that's what you truly believe then you may have a difficult time with this quiz. We stripped off all branding, colours and decals from these bikes and left you just one way to identify them - the shape of their frames. Some of them are very distinctive whereas others you'll have to look beyond the Horst link and try and find some other details to separate them. We've picked 34 bikes that have been released in 2020 for you to try and identify from hardcore hardtails to redesigned downhill bikes to the waves of downcountry bikes that swept the market in the summer. There are no prizes here just the bike nerdery honour a good score will bestow. Let us know how you got on at the bottom.
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66 Comments
- 93 2
dualcrownscottspark
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:34)
All of those Orbea's look like Stumpjumpers.
- 14 5
JackyStyleTom
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 9:35)
Or is it the other way around? 
- 7 2
dualcrownscottspark
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:52)
@JackyStyleTom: Stumpjumper came first. 
You never know though, could be the other way around.
You never know though, could be the other way around.- 5 0
bainer66
(Nov 12, 2020 at 0:10)
@JackyStyleTom: That's for the lawyers to decide......
- 1 0
ethanbuehlig
(Nov 12, 2020 at 9:35)
ikr
- 64 5
ryan-monson
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:07)
They all look like a session
- 4 1
englertracing
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:31)
that's what I was going to say.
- 40 2
ReformedRoadie
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:06)
#22 - are you SURE that's not a Kona Process?
- 1 0
jb2mntbike
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 9:55)
The process shock is a little more vertical. Other than that almost identical.
- 1 0
BenTheSwabian
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:28)
That's what I was thinking as well. But looking at it more closely the Process 153 would have slightly more swoopy lines
- 2 0
Pokrowiec
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:34)
The same here! I was sure that this is Process 153. Shame on you Trek...
- 3 0
DylanZ91
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 11:44)
That's what I thought, but then I noticed the little hole in the link which gave it away
- 31 1
stovechunin
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:20)
Looks like a... Sss... silhouette!
- 1 0
rifu
(Nov 12, 2020 at 6:33)
nanimo nanimo mada shiranu!
- 29 2
thomas1965
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:24)
I learned I am no longer able to tell shorter travel cannondales and specializeds apart, and everything else is starting to look like a kona process. also fuck off putting in a hardtail lolll
- 12 2
Grantma
(Nov 11, 2020 at 10:18)
99% of hardtails look identical
- 3 4
BenTheSwabian
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:26)
@Grantma: You think so? Go look at the Podium and the Procaliber side by side and think again.
- 1 0
mtallman2
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:27)
@Grantma: I got the Mondraker and the Procal, didn’t get the Honzo. Everyone point and laugh at the dirt roadie.
- 3 0
Grantma
(Nov 11, 2020 at 15:17)
@BenTheSwabian: that is why I said 99% 
. the Procaliber is different because of the iso speed decoupler. but if you're comparing a standard XC hardtail to another XC hardtail. There can't be much different
. the Procaliber is different because of the iso speed decoupler. but if you're comparing a standard XC hardtail to another XC hardtail. There can't be much different- 1 0
Grantma
(Nov 11, 2020 at 15:18)
@mtallman2: The Procal has the ISO speed decoupler, that's a giveaway, but beyond that, they are quite identical
- 1 0
mtallman2
(Nov 11, 2020 at 17:28)
@Grantma: Mondraker has those crazy skinny top tubes, could have only been theirs or a Canyon Exceed...I’m not helping my case here lol
- 3 0
vinay
FL (Nov 12, 2020 at 2:23)
The Honzo looks fun.
- 1 0
simekfilip
(Nov 16, 2020 at 0:45)
@Grantma: procaliber has the seatube super narrow at the bottom bracket, otherwise it looks just like any other xc hardtail
- 21 1
bookem13
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 8:42)
Im pretty upset the GrimDonut wasn't in there...Almost got me with the Shore
- 1 0
AFunFox
(Jan 1, 2021 at 12:49)
The grim donuts shock is down agains the down tube like the evil bike.
- 15 4
50percentsure
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:35)
Quit when I got to #3 and realized they are not all bicycles... 
- 2 0
kram
(Nov 12, 2020 at 10:48)
Some have more or less than two wheels?
- 9 1
jjnelso1
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:47)
Missing the seat tube gusset in the ESD silhouette? Maybe its a size thing?
- 2 0
mountainyj
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 9:27)
Glad someone else caught that...
- 2 0
HollyBoni
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:30)
Yep, the gusset is size specific, I think only the large and XL frames have it.
- 8 1
blazersdad89
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:33)
I was really worried there would be more Santa Cruzs.
- 5 0
BenTheSwabian
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:23)
Read my mind. They're impossible to tell apart by their silhouettes alone if they aren't right next to each other. 5010 or Tallboy? Who knows...
- 5 1
GumptionZA
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 7:34)
did anyone ever get a last tarvo? havent seen a single review and it looks just about perfect
- 1 0
hmstuna
(Nov 11, 2020 at 17:14)
I would have if the seat tube was steeper - that frameweight is insane
- 6 2
jakewashere
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:09)
This is what COVID has led us to? Content on PinkBike guessing bike silhouettes!! A vaccine cannot come soon enough...
- 4 0
ShaunR123
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:46)
Surely this type of article can be done without having to click for each answer!
- 2 0
SPKeen
(Nov 11, 2020 at 14:05)
I didn’t do bad with recognizing brands but the only exact model I got was the Honzo ESD because I have one on order and have been staring at the frame pictures for quite a while.
- 4 0
BurningBeard
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:55)
Thats some weird looking Sessions
- 2 0
typerk87
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:51)
its super easy to find out, check click the link. then find out, hit back then guess the bike.
I got all 34 correct.
- 4 1
edthesled
(Nov 11, 2020 at 16:59)
people still pay attention to XC bikes?
- 2 0
rich-2000
(Nov 11, 2020 at 23:26)
Confirms my thought that Transitions are the best shape out there at the moment
- 1 0
rosemarywheel
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:43)
Honzo and Specialized epic only, and unfortunately it's not because I spend more time riding... 
- 2 1
cougar797
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:55)
That silhouette thing was harder then I thought it would be. Or maybe I just actually ride my bike.
- 2 0
kiwi-in-ns
(Nov 11, 2020 at 10:09)
More holiday filler from Pinkbike.
- 2 0
ridejw
(Nov 11, 2020 at 10:28)
I guessed correctly on 4 got one right and then got bored and went riding.
- 2 0
Grantma
(Nov 11, 2020 at 15:20)
but not too bored since you still left a comment
- 2 0
BamaBiscuits
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 16:57)
I was killin it till the Last Tarvo lol. How many of those even exist?!
- 1 0
dredge
(Nov 11, 2020 at 15:18)
Danny is going to kill it on the CUBE!
- 1 0
yuckigheny
(Nov 12, 2020 at 19:23)
Lol an article that is a click generator for other articles
- 2 0
littleskull99
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:50)
No
- 1 0
bok-CZ
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 8:03)
Clicked the bait box, but there's no Zerode you...! 
- 1 0
waldo-uribe
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:10)
9.- 500 - Oops Something Went Wrong...
- 1 0
dexterfawkes
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:49)
Only one I didn't guess was the forestall.... Forgot the name
- 1 0
vegankidd
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:12)
They all look like Sessions to me.
- 1 0
hhaaiirryy
FL (Nov 11, 2020 at 9:17)
Nice way to increase the clicks
- 2 1
dirtchurner
(Nov 11, 2020 at 10:50)
Black bikes matter! uh huh, went there.
- 1 0
IanJF
(Nov 11, 2020 at 11:59)
Apparently I'm less of a bike nerd than I thought I was...
- 1 0
DHhack
(Nov 11, 2020 at 13:31)
At least I recognized my bike
- 1 0
tkrug
(Nov 11, 2020 at 18:55)
Single crown on the Sender was mean - thought it was an Enduro
- 1 0
healthy-not-sick-biker
(Nov 17, 2020 at 7:05)
I guessed all of them except the Raw Madonna.
- 1 1
BenTheSwabian
(Nov 11, 2020 at 8:14)
I got them all, except for the Last Tarvo and that weird Forestal e-bike.
- 1 0
chriskneeland
(Nov 12, 2020 at 5:16)
Ebikes?
- 3 6
T4THH
(Nov 11, 2020 at 7:54)
hardtails? really?
- 11 0
DirkMcClerkin
(Nov 11, 2020 at 9:40)
Fine with that. But e-bikes...
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