Vitus has overhauled its bike lineup in recent years, and with the release of the Venon Evo it says its portfolio is complete for now. The new bike plugs a gap between its ZX-1 Evo and Vitesse Evo race bikes and its Substance gravel bike. That’s a space traditionally filled by an endurance bike, but Jodie Shann, senior product manager at Vitus and the man who led development of the Venon Evo, says his team saw that the traditional endurance bike category was changing, with larger tyre clearance a key feature.
‘At the same time, a new performance gravel category was emerging driven by gravel