Basso Palta II
When cycling boomed a decade or so ago, the rage was for road. Wiggins gave Britain its first Tour win; the world’s finest cycling magazine was launched, and a nation rushed to its local bike shop to buy something expensive and carbon with thin tyres. Great days. But after ten years of riding on the same roads with the same traffic every weekend, desires began to change.
Those same riders are today lured instead by the scenic, motor vehicle-free delights of gravel. And while some are rediscovering their youth, others are stumbling headfirst into new territory. So when Basso’s marketing director, Joshua Riddle, describes the
