Wild unseen Lapierre gravel bike noticed at Gravel World Championships
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The UCI Gravel World Championships is quick turning into a brand new hotbed for technical innovation for high-end bikes, encouraging new know-how throughout tyre and suspension methods.
Lapierre was one model testing the water with new tech on the ladies’s race as a brand new gravel bike was noticed within the pits.
Its origin, use or proprietor stays a thriller to us, because it was solely briefly whisked beside the FDJ-Suez group automotive. Nonetheless, even a cursory look revealed this an altogether new and unseen bike for the model.
The prevailing gravel choice within the model’s secure, the Pulsium ALLROAD is a significantly much less adventure-orientated providing, with this mannequin being geared up with entrance suspension, floating seatstays and a dramatic splayed handlebar setup.
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The unnamed gravel bike has some notable similarities to Lapierre’s hardtail Prorace CF, which has an analogous straight toptube-cum-seatstay design, in addition to a equally formed headtube.
The refined variations in tube shapes and junctions mark it as a separate bike, although.
(Picture credit score: Future/ Peter Stuart)
The combination of the headset and stem, together with the aero profile of the handlebar verify racey aerodynamic pretensions, whereas the dramatic splay of the handlebar drops exhibits that is very a lot a motorbike destined for dramatic off-road challenges.
The bike seems to be constructed across the SRAM XPLR vary, with a Rudy Final XPLR suspension fork system, with a possible 40mm of journey.
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(Picture credit score: Future/ Peter Stuart)
The dropper submit seems to be a RockShox Reverb AXS XPLR dropper – a part of the XPLR suite of parts.
The presence of a timing chip on the fork means that the bike was certainly utilized in both the elite ladies’s or age-group World Championships, with the bottles suggesting an FDJ-Suez rider on the helm. A trawl by the race photos did not shed any gentle on the bike’s proprietor or efficiency within the race, although.
For now, the bike stood out alongside Marianne Vos’ self-inflating tyres as one of many extra placing technical revelations from the Gravel World Championships, and we’ll eagerly look out for extra data on the bike’s launch.
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