BEHIND THE BIKE
Jun 02, 2021
4 minutes
With the original Áspero and the new Áspero-5 Cervélo has concentrated on making a decidedly race-orientated bike. Does Cervélo see gravel as a fast sport and different from the adventure, touring and bike-packing scene?
“We specifically targeted events that have a competitive nature to them, the most notorious being Unbound Gravel (formerly known as Dirty Kanza). At the time that we came up with the idea of Áspero, that race was still being won on cyclocross (CX) bikes. It seems that there was, and still is, a big appetite for gravel bikes that make riding over rough terrain ‘easier’ and had the ability to carry things on the
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