8bar has brought back the off-road-exploring Tflsberg as an all-new steel bikepacking bike for heavily loaded dropbar adventures. Sure you can call it a monster gravel bike if you want. But 8bar is adamant that the new Tflsberg is probably more a mountain touring bike, designed for extra long days in the saddle exploring rough, uncharted terrain.
8bar Tflsberg steel off-road bikepacking 2.0 mountain touring bike
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The last Tflsberg we remember from 8bar was an alloy cyclocross racer, but the new steel Tflsberg is an entirely different monster. While your run-of-the-mill in-betweener gravel bike has settled on balanced speed on & off-road, this is a more relaxed ride with laid-back geometry that lends itself to much longer and rougher rides.
What makes an off-road mountain touring bike?
A forgiving heat-treated double-butted chromoly steel frame is a good place to start, with generously curved & flexible seatstays to eat up some of the choppy bumps. But it also is designed for loaded off-road bikepacking, so the frame is reinforced with thickened walls at every weld, plus a downtube gusset at the headtube.
Depending on how extreme you want to get, 8bar’s Tflsberg can be built up with a big suspension-corrected alloy bikepacking fork, or you can opt for a 100mm travel XC fork for an even smoother ride. There’s also internal routing for a stealth dropper post if needed.
Massive tire clearance is another good way to open up more terrain for exploration, and the Tflsberg has plenty of room for 29×2.25″ mountain bike tires, or even plus-sized 27.5×2.8″ tires. Now you understand why 8Bar calls the Tflsberg a dropbar bikepacking mountain bike.
Carrying capacity rounds out the Tflsberg’s adventure-ready capability. The rigid Tflsberg can haul up to nine water bottles! Inside the main triangle, there’s a standard pair of bosses on the seattube and a 3-pack for an anything cage above the downtube. There’s another pair of mounts under the downtube just in front of the bottom bracket, then two more pairs of cage mounts 2/3 of the way up the downtube offset to either side. Add to that a set of triple anything cage mounts on each seatstay and more angled forward on each side of the rigid fork.
There are also conventional & low-rider eyelets to mount both racks and full-coverage fenders front & rear. Plenty of ways to bolt up tons of gear to this bike – with the idea of letting you distribute weight evenly no matter what you are hauling.
Tech Details
The butted steel 8bar Tflsberg frame features a straight 44mm headtube to work with straight or tapered steerer forks, a 68mm threaded BB, a 27.2mm seatpost with a conventional 31.8mm external clamp, external cable routing, flat mount disc brakes for 140/160mm rotors, and 12mm thru-axles with non-Boost gravel 100/142mm spacing. Weight of the steel frame is claimed at 2200g, plus another 1000g if you opt for the full aluminum fork.
The entire Tflsberg setup is rated for a max system weight of 140kg/309lb, including the bike, rider, and all luggage.
8bar Tflsberg bikepacking bike – Pricing, options & availability
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While gravel bikes are versatile, anyone riding the Silk Road Mountain Race right now will tell you the benefits of a proper off-road mountain bikepacking bike is more suited for longer, rougher tours. The new steel Tflsberg is available now from 8bar as a frameset with alloy fork from 800€, or with a DT Swiss F232 One suspension fork from 1500€.
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Complete customizable bikepacking-ready builds of the 8bar Tflsberg start as low as 2120€ with the rigid fork, Shimano GRX 2×10 & alloy wheels.
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Or flat bar urban exploration builds with GRX 1×10 from just 1700€.
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But it’s easy to get builds up over 6000€ with tons of options like the DT fork, SRAM AXS drivetrain, carbon wheels, Redshift suspension stem & seatpost, not to mention racks, fenders & integrated lighting setups.
Offered in three frame sizes (S,M,L) and semi-gloss black or matte silver, you can even have it custom painted to make it one-of-a-kind like any other 8bar frame. The new steel 8bar Tflsberg bikepacking bike is available now in limited numbers depending on your chosen spec.