Meet Best Bikes Lab Team

Our Experts Bike Reviewer

Meet our team of cycling enthusiasts, from seasoned coaches to professional bike mechanics with years of experience riding different bicycles. Some are market researchers, professional bike riders, bicycle mechanics, and bike review writers.

MP Naveed

SEO Expert & Content Writer

Lon Schroeder

Senior Mountain Bike Reviewer

Jason Jones

Mountain Bike Review Editor

Francis Cantrell

Hybrid Bike Reviews Editor

David McGill

Electric Bike Reviews Editor

Brian Walker

Experienced Bicycle Mechanic

Bart Summers

Road Bike Racer & Coach

Reba Nolan

Women Bike Reviews Editor

We started this website in 2024 to deliver information to people who love bikes around the world. Before starting the website, our team members tested hundreds of bicycles, including hybrid bikes, mountain bikes, road bikes, electric bikes, and other regular commuting bikes. 

MP Naveed

MP Naveed owns bestbikeslab.com and has over six years of experience in SEO (search engine optimization) and content writing. He loves bicycle riding and has reliable contacts in the bicycle market. MP Naveed regularly searches physical and online cycling marketplaces for updates about newly released bikes, cycling accessories, and gear.

Mountain Bike Reviews Team Members

Lon Schroeder

Lon Schroeder is a senior and experienced mountain bike reviewer at Best Bikes Lab. He has extensive knowledge about the ins and outs of the mountain bike industry. In 2010, he started his cycling business by purchasing and reselling mountain bikes to his local area bike shops in Michigan, US. After moving to Washington in 2018, Lon Schroeder started his new journey as an MTB cross-country coach and led racers for different cycling competitions.

Jason Jones

Jason Jones has been an adventure lover, aggressive mountain biker, and bike industry expert since 2010. Now, he is a freelance writer and mountain bike tester for our comparative reviews. Jason Jones also published his mountain biking guide, “Mountain Biking—The Complete Guide To Mountain Biking For Beginners.” In this book, he shares his mountain biking experience and many useful cycling tips for beginners to avoid mountain biking mistakes, as well as some useful tips to avoid injury.

Hybrid Bike Reviews Team Members

Gilbert Schoen

Our senior hybrid bike review editor, Gilbert Schoen, is a full-time biker and bike industry expert who has ridden more than 200 bicycles since 2000 when he was 15. He has spent much time on two wheels and has more than 10 years of experience as a cycling journalist. 

Francis Cantrell

Francis Cantrell is our staff writer for hybrid bike testing reviews. He published a valuable bike riding guide called “Cycling for Beginners” for everyday bike riders to learn road cycling skills and also explain how to improve cardio with cycling. At Best Bike Lab, Francis regularly receives test reports from our bike reviews and calculates a rating matrix to thoroughly explain hybrid bike reviews.

Road Bike Reviews Team Members

Stephon Batz

Stephon Batz is a seasonal road bike tester and has spent more than 15 years in different cycling competitions for road bikes, mountain bikes and gravel bikes. He spent more than 10 years working as a sales manager in a bike shop in Springfield, Illinois. Stephon has very close contacts with different bike brands. He has written well-researched review content for some of the biggest cycling brands, including HH Hiland, Huffy Bicycles, Schwinn, Mongoose, Retrospec, Senada E-Bike company, etc.

Bart Summers

Bart Summers is our senior staff writer for road bike reviews and has written a cycling book, “50 Top Bike Racing Tips”. In 2005, He started to participate in bike races at the age of 17 years. Bart Summers still actively participates in road bike racing competitions, among which he loves participating in the Tour de France. At Best Bikes Lab, he works on everything from content strategy to calculating rating metrics to making a final list of recommended road bikes for review.

Electric Bike Reviews Team Members

Brian Walker

Brian Walker is a qualified mechanic and has excellent experience in assembling and maintaining electric bikes. He still runs his own independent electric bike repairing workshop in New York, US. As a full-time electric bike reviewer, Brian Walker has tested about 70 different electric bike models for our website.

David McGill

David McGill is our electric bike review writer and has years of experience of riding different electric bikes for testing and reviews. In 2020, David wrote his first cycling guide for e-bike riders named “The E-Bike Handbook From Buying to Maintenance” to teach e-bike riding skills to beginners and non-professional bikers. 

Women Bike Reviews Team Members

Reba Nolan

Reba Nolan is our female cyclist and lead editor for women’s bike review articles. She is very responsible and has developed an excellent ability to easily ride heavy mountain bikes on tough trails. Reba actively participates in the selection, assembling and testing process of women’s specific bikes and also guides our content writers to write review blogs.

What Do We Do At Best Bikes Lab?

Our priority is our readers. Everything we do here is to help our readers make correct decisions by giving them tested comparative reviews of bikes, cycling gear, and repair tools. Our tested reviews enable visitors to find the best cycling products according to their riding style, budget, and requirements.

It does not matter whether you are looking for the best mountain bikes, road bikes, hybrid bikes or the latest e-bikes. We provide quality-tested reviews, buying guides and helpful tips under the supervision of professional cyclists, market researchers and lead editors.

We use the four-step formula to give reviews of the best bikes and cycling products in front of our readers as follows:

1. Market Research
2. Quality Analysis
3. Product Testing
4. Rating Metrics

Step 1: Market Research:

We do tons of research in physical markets and online marketplaces to regularly get latest updates about newly released and in-demand bikes, cycling accessories, gears and repairing tools. We also read hundreds of customer reviews and collect their experience with that particular product, which we are going to recommend to our readers. 

Step 2: Quality Analysis

After collecting complete information, we purchase shortlisted cycling products for testing, which makes it easier for us to write reviews for our readers. Before testing, we deeply check the quality of material and strength of each component during bike assembly. If our mechanics find any issue, they quickly resolve it and note it in the pros and cons section.  

Step 3 – Bike or Product Testing: 

After analyzing the quality of the components, our testers used bikes and other cycling products for a long time and took multiple tests on different types of roads. They choose the possible hardest situations, such as rainy weather, dirty wet roads, sudden stops, quickly moving the bike from a flat road to a rough surface and fast riding over gravel. In this way, we check the bike frame strength and handling ability for emergency situations.

Step 4 – Rating Metrics: 

After collecting testing results, we calculate the overall performance of bikes and give a ranking by using our rating metrics. We write a complete informative review about the strengths and weaknesses of the bike or product that we found or felt during assembly and testing. We also include a separate section of features, pros, and cons for our readers so that they can quickly get an overview of the selected bike and easily choose suitable bikes, accessories, sports gear, and tools for themselves. 

Why Should You Trust Us or Choose Our Selected Bikes And Other Recommended Products?

We have a well-structured process from market research to testing each and every bike and other related cycling products that we recommend on our website, bestbikeslab.com, as described above. So, you can trust the best bikes lab team for providing authentic and reliable product reviews.

We have a team of experienced bike racers, expert mechanics and seasonal cyclists who have around 10 to 15 years of experience. Some of them have been involved in different cycling competitions and are still working as cycling coaches and bike mechanics at bicycle repair workshops. Most of them have written different cycling guidebooks for both beginners and professionals to help them quickly learn bike riding skills.

We purchase the most popular and best in-demand bikes, tools, accessories and regular cycling dresses for side-by-side testing and comparison review. In the last three years, our bike testing team members have tested more than 260 different mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, road bikes, electric bikes and BMX bikes for multiple reviews on our websites. 

Our testing team members perform different types of tests, including distance range tests, seat comfortability tests, tire quality tests, brake performance tests, shifter smoothness tests, and other performance-evaluating tests. After completing the testing, we individually calculate our rating metrics to give scoring and make a ranking list to provide honest reviews. 

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