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Rose Mix Mixes Street and Gravel Bikes into Single Tremendous Inexpensive Alloy Platform
Apr
Is the Rose Mix one dropbar bike to rule all of them?
OK, Rose isn’t actually attempting to remove separate highway bikes and gravel bikes. However their new Mix appears to efficiently have eradicated the robust alternative for brand new dropbar cyclists of whether or not to purchase a highway bike or a gravel bike.
Why decide, when you may have each!
Rose Mix adaptable, inexpensive alloy highway AND gravel bike
Rose calls their new Mix a hybrid platform that may be constructed up as highway or gravel. It’s not an enormous stretch, as we see even top-tier trendy highway bikes with mega tire clearances lately. And gravel bikes with race-ready road-inspired geometry. So, similar to with numerous up to date all-road bikes, there’s actually no want any extra to decide to using on only one sort of floor.
And that’s particularly necessary to somebody new to biking, and even to mountain bikers seeking to department out onto dropbars. Rose’s entry into “sporty biking” simply bought simpler and extra inexpensive.
Tech particulars
Certain that is an inexpensive entry-level, smooth-welded aluminum highway or gravel bike. However you get virtually the entire key trendy dropbar bike options – plus a comfortably-flared Ritchey Butano bar to high it off.
This can be a trendy flat-mount disc brake bike with 12mm thru-axles, a tapered steerer carbon fork, 27.2mm publish, a UDH, and totally inner cable routing via the headset. You possibly can even mount a kickstand if you happen to really feel so inclined.
Tire clearance is 40mm, letting it fall extra into the sunshine gravel or quick gravel classes. However slap some 32mm slicks on there, and it’s firmly within the trendy highway class, with loads of all-road functionality, plus full-coverage fender compatibility.
A large 7-size vary (XXS-XXL) ought to provide a match for everybody – with seattube lengths from 42.5-60cm!
Rose Mix – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new Rose Mix bike is available in 2 discipline-specific construct spec ranges – highway or gravel – and in 2 colours. Choose from matte Salmon orange or extra typical matte black in both fashion.
Beginning at €1199 for the highway construct you get a Tiagra 2×10 groupset with compact 50/34 x 11-34T gearing. Add 32mm Continental Extremely Sport highway slicks on Rose’s personal home model alloy wheels with a 22mm inner width, for a claimed full bike weight of 9.9kg.
For 1399€, the gravel construct will get a GRX 400 2×10 construct with decrease 46/30 x 11-34T off-road gearing and 40mm Conti Terra Path tires on those self same G20 wheels. Simply 100g extra claimed than the highway construct.
Each iterations of the brand new do-it-all dropbar Rose Mix can be found now, direct from Rose and of their retail outlets.