XMCS: 2026 Aero Gravel bike

[Requiem84]

Something new is coming… .

See our Instagram. Front tire clearance can be guessed in the comments, and right answer gets a like. Won’t be too hard. Will share here tomorrow too.

[tmhbrl]

Excited for this frame!

[akira11]

can't wait for more details!

[rsw42]

Why does this steerer look straight to me? no tapered steerer tube?

But I'm really curious what Peter and his gang have cooked up here...

[Asco]

My first thought is that advertising the clearance in the front means the rear clearance probably is the same 50mm as all the other current frames. Hope I'm wrong though!

[apphex]

It’d be sweet to get frame with enough space to toss in some 2.2/2.25s and not've to worry about clearance.

[CycOps]

Fara Gr4 has 57mm (2.2") tire clearance front and rear, Storm's Gravel/Beach racer has even more, that's the benchmark IMHO.

[Uberflo]

tyre clearance 700x58

[Requiem84]

My first thought is that advertising the clearance in the front means the rear clearance probably is the same 50mm as all the other current frames. Hope I'm wrong though!

You are wrong ;-).

We just thought it would be nice to build up some excitement. So we’ll try to release new information every week.

[Requiem84]

Why does this steerer look straight to me? no tapered steerer tube?

But I'm really curious what Peter and his gang have cooked up here...

You can ignore this, fork is from the actual 3d renders, but we had to do some AI stuff to make a fancy picture and couldn’t get it fully right. Was hoping the blurriness made the details vague enough.

For the real frame please just await the full release where we will not do any rendering etc.

[Requiem84]

can't wait for more details!

57mm official clearance for the front. 

[Asco]

You are wrong ;-).

We just thought it would be nice to build up some excitement. So we’ll try to release new information every week.

That's great to hear! Looking forward to it.

[Requiem84]

Why does this steerer look straight to me? no tapered steerer tube?

But I'm really curious what Peter and his gang have cooked up here...

All design and manufacturing by Peter obviously. From my side, we just had a lot of discussions what is important on a 2026 (aero) gravel bike - incl what geometry direction - and for Peter it’s a bit if a leap of faith to start building someone that practically no other Chinese manufacturer in his space is doing… so I hope I guided him in the good direction.

[CycOps]

Well, this thread is a lot of stir up for pretty much of nothing so far...
What's the time line for first geo and specs?

[Serge_K]

All design and manufacturing by Peter obviously. From my side, we just had a lot of discussions what is important on a 2026 (aero) gravel bike - incl what geometry direction - and for Peter it’s a bit if a leap of faith to start building someone that practically no other Chinese manufacturer in his space is doing… so I hope I guided him in the good direction.

Last time he listened to a westerner about a gravel bike, i think it was me, who said that because the VB Pinarello clone was popular, maybe a grevil clone would be popular too. And then it wasnt. Why the Pinarello vibe wouldn't transfer to gravel, idk. On paper, it made sense to me Not only that, but the grevil was racey and meant to be decently aero too...