Affiliate disclosure
Affiliate disclosure
We may earn a commission if you buy through some links on this site. Here is exactly how that works, which link it applies to today, and what it never decides.
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In plain language
Some merchants pay a commission to the sites that send them customers. If you click one of those links on RideBenchmark and then make a qualifying purchase, the merchant may pay us a commission. The arrangement is between us and the merchant (often through an affiliate network); it is not a fee charged to you by RideBenchmark.
We can’t promise the price you see through our link is identical to every other price available — merchants run promotions, coupons and regional pricing we don’t control. Always compare before you buy.
Our active relationship today
As of November 10, 2026, RideBenchmark has one active affiliate relationship:
- Kaabo USA, through the Awin affiliate network. The owner of RideBenchmark is an approved Kaabo affiliate. The “Check price at Kaabo USA” link for the Kaabo King GT Pro on our homepage is an Awin tracking link. If you buy through it, we may earn a commission.
That’s it. We have no other affiliate programs, sponsorships, paid placements or free or loaned products at the moment. If that changes, this page will be updated and the affected pages will say so.
Other outbound links on the site — for example, the 79Bike official product page, manufacturer spec pages and the Road to Trail YouTube channel — are not affiliate links and earn us nothing.
How you can tell which links pay us
- Affiliate links are accompanied by a visible note next to them: “We may earn a commission if you buy through some links on this site.”
- In the page code, affiliate links carry the attribute
rel="sponsored nofollow", the standard way to tell search engines a link is commercial. - We link directly to the merchant through the affiliate network. We don’t cloak links, use pop-ups, or redirect you through pages that hide where you’re going.
What commissions never decide
- Which machine is best for you. Recommendations follow our methodology, not commission rates.
- Whether a product is covered. A machine with no affiliate program can still be recommended, compared or praised.
- What we say about limitations. Having an affiliate link for a product does not soften our coverage of its tradeoffs.
Owning a Kaabo scooter and being a Kaabo affiliate does not make RideBenchmark part of Kaabo. Kaabo has not reviewed, approved or sponsored our content, and a purchase through our link is not an endorsement by the manufacturer.
When a specific review is affected
If compensation, a free product or a loan materially affects a particular review or comparison, we will disclose it on that page, close to the recommendation and the purchase link — not only here or in the footer.
Changes
Merchant terms, pricing, availability and partner status change. We review our links and this page when a relationship starts, ends or changes. Questions about this disclosure can go to contact@ridebenchmark.com.