Campagnolo Ekar £1,473 | Weight 2,435g

Not only has Campagnolo brought the world its first 13-speed mechanical groupset, with its Ekar gravel gruppo, the Italian manufacturer is claiming the crown of producing the lightest gravelspecific groupset on the market.

If you are surprised by the brand jumping all in on gravel, perhaps you shouldn’t be. Although founded in 1933 and steeped in tradition, Campagnolo has always been pushing innovation – the number of engineering firsts it’s racked up over the years is deserving of an article in itself.

But back to the present. We’ve put this groupset through the wringer, racking up miles in the dry and the wet, in the mud and out on the road, and while there are a few caveats, on