2010 giant ltd edition dt swiss bike wheelset

I was quite impressed with the feel of the Cavazzo. This isn’t a bike that railroads you into one small, particular niche - many doors have been left wide open. Going in quite the other direction, the Cavazzo is also well suited for long distance bikepacking jaunts, with those 13 gears and wide variety of mounting options. Put on some fat tyres and, together with its reasonably slack head angle and simple 1x drivetrain, it’s a blast around the local trails and bridleways. Tifosi’s Cavazzo platform is very much a jack of all trades. Straight out the box, it’s not perfect for bikepacking, you’d want some lower gears and some extra mounting options - but at least these are upgrades you can make, changing the geometry of the frame certainly is not. In all, it was pretty spot on for the mix of gravel riding I do day to day. Part of the attraction of gravel bikes is that they open your horizons a bit more than a mountain bike, enabling you to cover much greater distances, so it’s really great that aspect hasn’t been lost in the slightest With the rear axle tucked just that bit further underneath, it was easy to elicit a response with just a flick of the hips - quite the contrast to those with longer chainstays.īut for all that, I didn’t feel like I was in an ungainly, mountain bike style position when riding on the road – it felt really just as efficient as any other gravel at this end of the spectrum. Once I swapped in the 45mm Schwalbe G-One Bites, I was really able to see what the URS ONE was capable of.Įverything just really clicked, the handling felt composed and assured, without a hint of skittishness.

However, at 40mm, they were a bit too narrow to really let it loose in the woods.

The Raddler tyres specced have a reasonable tread pattern for a mix of trail, bridleway and tarmac riding, with the knobs not being too tall so as to be overly draggy, while still having enough bite and large enough gaps between the knobs to allow them to clear the dirt. It’s well able to handle a blast around the woods, but it’s still efficient enough to comfortably be ridden long distances, hitting those two major demands in one fell swoop – and with just one bike. This puts it in a kind of halfway house which relatively few brands have capitalised on – but one which ticks an awful lot of boxes. It’s designed to be more capable on the trails than your typical gravel bike, but it hasn’t taken things so far as to become a Frankenstein-esque monstercross machine – essentially a mountain bike with drop handlebars. The BMC URS ONE sits apart from most gravel bikes.

2010 giant ltd edition dt swiss bike wheelset