The Riva Bike Festival at Lake Garda traditionally marks the beginning of the mountain biking season, especially for the German speaking markets – novelties, first introduced at the trade shows the previous autumn, are now at the manufacturers’ booths ready for testing.

Most obvious attribute: ”After riding only a few hundred meters the Stevens turned out to be ”the Rocket” of the test”, Radtouren begins their description of the STEVENS E-Triton Luxe.

There is one thing you’d have to adapt to with the STEVENS 8X Lite Disc Tour according to the editors of German bike magazine ’aktiv Radfahren’: A sporty riding style. It featured a ”racy layout” and after the first few hundred meters already you get the feeling that everything looks like it’s made from one solid piece down to the smallest detail.

The STEVENS Aspin was suitable for any hobby race like the Hamburg Cyclassics as well as for riding passes in the high mountains, Tour says in its April 2016 edition. Like e.g. the Pyrenees pass which the ”classic in Stevens’ model range” is named after.