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MTB Demo Center

Are you looking to try a mountain bike so you can decide what to buy? Or maybe you want to ride every mountain bike on the market and see what’s best? Great news – we have a full service mountain bike demo center, where you can rent our bikes and ride them on the trails all day long to see what they’re really like. That way, you get to experience all the different options and make sure you choose the one you like the best.

Where to demo ride new mountain bikes

In our experience, there aren't too many places where you can try out a bunch of completely different bikes, from different brands, on different types of trails, so we wanted to provide that for all of you who are trying to decide which bike to invest in for the next few years.

We have a dedicated fleet of rental bikes for you to take on sweat-inducing climbs and awesome Arizona trails with all kinds of fun features like jumps, drops, and rock gardens. This isn’t just a quick 5 minute test ride around the block, although you can do that too if you want.

If you don't like the bike, you can easily grab another one to compare them one after another. The closest trailhead to the fantastic Phoenix Mountains Preserve trail network is just a mile's easy ride away from our Phoenix store.

Or you can rent from our Scottsdale store, load the bikes up on your bike rack, and ride on the trails of your choosing, from Sedona to Flagstaff.

Hawes mountain bike trail system in Mesa, AZ

A Yeti bike taking in the views at the local Hawes trail system

How to get a free demo

Test rides around the block are always free. Full-day demo rides are available for as low as absolutely free. Here's how to get a free MTB demo:

  1. Book a bike rental for each bike that you want to demo from our Phoenix or Scottsdale stores
  2. Ride!
  3. Repeat as needed
  4. Within 60 days of your first rental, buy any bike(s) from us that cost, in total, at least 5x the total rental cost. Assuming you're buying in the store, we'll credit the full amount you spent on rentals towards the cost of the bike(s). If you buy online, contact us to get your purchase set up with the discount.

In other words, if you buy any bike from us within 60 days of renting a demo bike, you can put the amount you spent on rentals toward your new bike. The bike doesn’t even have to be one that you demoed. You can apply demo credit up to 20% of the purchase price of the bike.

The demo amount will be credited regardless of how much the bike is already on sale.

Example

As an example, if you bought a Yeti SB120 for about $6,000, you could apply demo credit up to $1,200. For our bikes that are available for rent at $125/day, you could demo 9 different bikes for a full day each.

Demo a Santa Cruz bike

We’re an official Santa Cruz demo center, and that means we have a lot of different Santa Cruz bikes in our demo fleet. If you’re looking for a cross-country bike to test ride, check out the Blur. If you’re looking to demo an enduro bike, check out the Megatower. We also have the Hightower, Tallboy, and 5010 in our fleet.

Demo a Yeti mountain bike

Having a hard time finding a place where you can demo Yeti mountain bikes before you buy? Our demo fleet also includes a lot of different Yeti models, like the SB115, SB120, and SB140. Check out the rentals page to see what Yeti models we have available to demo on the trails.

Demo other mountain bike brands

You can also demo bikes from Niner, Norco, and Rocky Mountain in different sizes for a full-day or half-day. Check out the rentals page to see what models we have available from these brands.