Design & Innovation Award 2025 – The Oscars of the bike and outdoor industries
What are the bike products of 2025? What are the most important trends in the bike industry for the coming year? After thousands of testing kilometers and heat negotiations, the results are for the Oscar of the bike and open industry. Curtains for Design & Innovation Award 2025!
The table of things
Startups, established brands and international big players compete in favor of customers with new products, intended innovations, big promises and attractive slogans. But what is the hype and what arguments are water? What are the most hopeful consequences of the ability to actually?
Design & Innovation Award 2025
Innovations, exciting bikes, innovative mobility concepts and occasionally fail. The Design & Innovation Award (DI.A) has been keeping the most hopeful new products through the ringer in real world conditions since 2013, with our experienced test staff quickly identified the best products and the most important trends of the new season.
What are the important bike and open trends of 2025?
It is not uncommon to reflect social trends in industry trends. This makes it more happy that the industry is taking the tendency to go back, because the bike and the public industry’s 2025 trends are about society, openness and inclusion. Instead of serving only the most professional and performance-based niche, the industry is more focused on new target groups. It rethinks products from scratch and thereby reduces obstacles to enter cycling and allows the most beautiful outdoor activities, as a variety of audiences as possible.
Who are the 2025 award recipients?
Before giving the design & innovation award for a product, it must withstand many strict tests, with veteran award exam staff in real world circumstances when they meet many requirements. Guidelines, the best product performance, new policies that provide new solutions or real advantage to consumers with a big impact are some of the eligible factors that are eligible for a product. This year, the award team tested and analyzed the most relevant products of the new season on versatile sidewalks, routes and mountain roads around San Vigilio village in Dolomites. We provide you with the most outstanding productsProviding reliable performance in our practical test and thereby preserving the respectable design & Innovation Award.
About Design & Innovation Award
The Mission of the Design & Innovation Award
Design & Innovation Award (DI.A) More than decoration. This is the only award with real product tests, deep reviews and critically established judgments. DI.A provides guidance in a more different market, filled with new products and trends, gives the impression of its approval, and has set up a benchmark for the most unusual products in the open, bike and fitness fields, as well as a catalyst for future innovations.
Not everyone has the right product, but everyone can find their perfect product!
Design & Innovation Award tests the real-world products, fully assesses them and reaches established in complex and deep analysis. In two weeks, international journalists, independent award team with professional test riders and industry experts analyzed products and put them at their pace. Objectives:
- DI.A offers a trend in a different market with its trusted approval seal. If you look at the award logo on a product, you can guarantee that you are buying the right.
- By separating the true trends from the hot air, the D.A.
The aspirations of the Design & Innovation Award are to be the standard seal of approval and serving as the standard of the best bike and open products. DI.A acts as a platform for powerful ideas and innovations, above all, for small companies – because of small innovators and foresights are the largest drivers of the bike world’s innovations! Together with the Cycling Innovation Accelerator (CIA), the Design & Innovation Award provides the support for most hopeful candidates to develop to the next level.
Launched in 2022, Cycling Innovation Accelerator (CIA) The first global incubator of startups, amazing ideas and innovations, encourages them with a unique combination of angel investors, networks, media reaching, expertise and knowing. Obstacles to enter the market are becoming larger and large, especially for small companies, because the product, scaling, investment and marketing resources available to large companies and corporations are completely different. In addition, the bike world is currently facing a huge shortage of knowledge, skill, networks and, above all, change and growth.
Who’s behind the award?
Our 30-strong and fully experienced test team is united by partnership with partnership: deep love for cycling, outdoors and consciousness in all its aspects. The foundation for this hobby award, which is the desire to recognize the best experiences and the best products that give you a great extra value.
The award team has been selected to be free from traditional thinking, and to analyze products from various perspectives and backgrounds as a variant and interdisciplinary approaches. Examination staff of the Design & Innovation Award are not disappointed by large brands and extensive marketing campaigns, which means that underdogs also have the opportunity to impress with their products. On the other hand, obvious innovations from the players established are not in line with their big name.
Trust, knowledge, professional –
The 30-strong, international award team includes journalists, test riders and engineers, who are the most famous experts in the respective fields.
Each year, the team invests countless hours in the design & Innovation Award process. In this process, each product is extensively and seriously tested and discussed. Behind each award, there are countless hours of sweat, work, riding, pain and occasional negotiations, in addition to the actual world use of the products and the actual world use of products. The Design & Innovation Award is not only a leading award in the industry, but also the most standard.
Where do products are tested?
It is impossible to discuss the value or efficiency of the product in the meeting room or measure in the laboratory. Good production is often more than the amount of its parts and to really understand it, it must be tested in the real world. From the rounded streets of the mountainous village of San Vigilio, to the brutal rock gardens of the Harensteig Trail in Crohnplatz, tough fans-Sennes-Praggs Nature Park UNESCO Heritage Site, there is no good or more impressive backdrop to test the exciting products of the next season.
Why are there so many winners for each category?
Design & Innovation Award is not a comparison test or shootout but aims to individually assess and predict the most optimistic products of the new season. The diversity of each category is huge, and completely different innovative procedures are eligible for identification. Our mantra is: Not everyone has the right product, but everyone can find their perfect product! There should be no perfect product, but instead of a particular product for a particular user. The industry, media and consumers often tempt to search for a clear and simple answer, but reality is often more complicated. We believe it is good and important to have multiple award winners for the product category, as it allows different products for different properties, highlighting the strength of each product and giving users a more different perspective and eventually a better tendency.
The Bike World’s leading award –
Design & Innovation Award is the impression of approval for the best products. Welcome to the bike industry’s Oscar!
Design & Innovation Award for 2026
Do you have a wonderful product that makes revolutionary changes in the open, bike or fitness industries? Great! The Design & Innovation Award will be launched in June 2026.
Who are the partners of DI.A?
We proudly demonstrate Alta Bodia in UNESCO World Heritage Dolomites, as our new platform partner for Design & Innovation Award 2025.
Who are the media partners of DI.A?
Design & Innovation Award may rely on the best and most effective magazines in the cycling sector. As international trendsetters and opinion leaders in the respective departments, the award can be counted in the market Reich of e-mountainbike, enduro, Gran Fonda and downtown.
There are many great ideas and enthusiastic startups, they do not know where to go from there, but small companies that have a key make-it-or-break-it stage or a great product. Those who do not have the necessary capital, network, sales construction, PR, branding knowledge or market visibility. And the bike is unknown to the unique rules and specifications that apply to the world. Most Entreprene entrepreneurs also fail, because they have no experience in building a business from scratch and leading it to success – from finding the right staff, to institutional structure and tools, processes and leadership. This also applies to some winners of the Design & Innovation Award. Design & Innovation Award Increases the awareness, reliability and sales of the company, but often requires more than a sustainable business success. Right here Cycling Innovation Accelerator (CIA) Helps.
Words: Rudolph Fisher, Robin Schmit, Susan Federsen Photos: Benjamin Topff, Peter Walker, Valentin Rohl, John Richter
