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Moots Routt RSL

When I was eight all I wanted were trainers with lights in the heel. When I was 11 all I wanted was replica Peter Schmeichel goalie gloves. When I was 14 all I wanted was a Moots.

Twenty-two years later and I still don’t have a pair of Cica trainers (remember them? Seekah, si-kah, whatever!). But I have a Moots, it is a gravel Moots and it is a joy to behold.

We all make mistakes

This is the redesigned Routt RSL, which now boasts tyre clearance for up to 700c x 45mm tyres, with the RSL designating this is Moots’ lightest, raciest Routt. It sits alongside the Routt YBB, which confused, and a little disappointed.

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