Steel Gravel Bike Frameset

Hardly any folks these days buy a steel frame as their first mountain bike.

Steel gravel bike frameset. 21 of the best steel bikes for 2020. Eddy merckx ready made affordable steel road gravel bikes c. Metal frame options steel titanium or aluminum can be great options for touring gravel recreational or urban oriented road bikes. Thorn club tour mk5 1 870 86.

Combine that with his more than 40 years of designing and building bicycles and it s no wonder the outback has become an icon in the gritty world of gravel and adventure bikes. Tom ritchey has been making bikes for nearly 50 years and the latest edition of the road logic takes much of the classic steel roadies we all know and love and brings a bit of modern flair. With the mitte we literally reinvented the wheel and developed an all road bike that changes its geometry completely from a road bike to a cross and adventure bike. The fargo steel frameset lets you build the expedition bike of your dreams with the comfortable ride quality of cromoly.

We pedal beyond to seek out adventure along the most challenging routes whatever they are made of. The first mountain bikes were made out of steel but that is not why we decided to make these. Tom ritchey rides about 10 000 miles 16 000 km per year and most of that is off road. Carbon fiber bike frames can be shaped and tuned for specific ride properties targeting aerodynamics efficiency comfort or some combination of all three depending on what matters most to you.

We ride to escape the familiar. The 8bar mitte steel is the most robust reliable and versatile frame that won t let you down no matter what kind of roads you want to ride on. Paved roads do not confine us. But don t worry merckx is bringing back a wider range of premium steel bikes at much lower prices.

The premium titanium version of our fargo frameset features a 3 2 5 seamless tubeset split able alternator v1 5 dropouts and our feature rich firestarter 110 deluxe fork. Condor bivio gravel 1 399 99 frame fork headset spa cycles wayfarer 2020 1 150 00. We chose steel because it offers the best combination of value comfort and resiliency of all the popular frame materials.