Coming from the United States, the bicycle Gravel which allows you to ride on not always very smooth gravel roads and paths with a certain comfort. This versatile bike is a mix between the road bike and the VTC and the touring VVT. A hybrid bike to discover new horizons and go on an adventure without worrying about the terrain that awaits you, we are told!
I think it's a hijacking by the makers of a bike that's been around for a long time: the touring road bike. Certainly clearly inspired by the more or less amateur creations of great cyclo-travellers.
Free yourself from the constraints of the terrain, this is also the main slogan of the major bicycle brands that offer Gravel ! Yes, because it is a very promising market segment for several reasons.
1. First of all for the cyclist who still sleeps in you, it looks curiously like your old road bike and is comporte like the latter, it will not cost very much. So if it's about having a bike for a few hundred kilometers a year, it's a good choice. It is also a good compromis, because if you feel like it, it can also ride on paths. But you might miss your old mountain bike, because you'll still be shaking like a branch.
2. Then, unlike road bike costs that have taken the lift, the Gravel is in most cases mounted on steel or aluminum frames and wheels and equipped with relatively basic transmission. It is therefore not very expensive to manufacture. This new generalist bike formula makes it possible to sell a road bike at an affordable price. This cheaper road bike is therefore not at all aimed at addicts of the road bike ready to sell their cars and women for a new frame and carbon wheels. But indeed to the cyclist sitting between two saddles.
So it is true that a leisure discipline quite close to cyclo-cross and mountain biking is emerging. In fact several cyclosportive offer this year a course Gravel » compdaring road and path, most often in the mountains. However, after 50 kilometers of road and bumpy paths, your wider and more streamlined wheels mounted on your aluminum frame will do your back and your forearms no favors. Before finally getting back on the road, will you perhaps regret the suspension of a VTC (with a front fork), this less stylish bike that still looked at you from the corner of the goose in the store before you finally decided to This Gravel !
1- The “Do everything” use. You have a multiple practice, but having several bikes requires money and space. The bike Gravel adapts to all your desires and all your outings, both for going to work and for taking walks sauvages the weekend.
2- “Leisure use”. Your pleasure lies between the road and the mountain bike. You like slightly long hikes, but not too long where you explore unknown roads with your Garmin. If the VTC really no longer meets your performance requirements, the Gravel may be the solution!
3- “Travel use”. You are adept at long distances on necessarily all-terrain courses. Your Gravel will be your best friend, because you will still spend 80% of the time on asphalt.
4- “Bikepacking” is a way of traveling by bicycle in this case the frames of the Gravels are equipped to receive panniers without fixed devices and too heavy to hang them, simply attached to the frame by Velcro systems. They allow traveling cyclists to set off on an adventure with the necessary equipment without having to make any modifications to the bike and above all without suffering the vibrations caused by the luggage racks.
When I told you that the Gravel was born from the inspiration of great travelers on bicycles!
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