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All-City gets Super Professional with adaptable steel, do-it-all urban cross bike

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike
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All-City is all about building steel bikes that make great all-rounders. Their latest Super Professional mashes up the popular urban Macho Man and the cyclocross Nature Boy to create the perfect cross, a versatile bike that’s just as happy on your everyday commute as it will be sneaking off to hunt out gravel & trails after work. Call it a flat-bar super commuter, or your next do-it-all gravel, all-road cyclocross-ing sport utility bike.

All-City Super Professional steel gravel cross commuter bike

Pretty much all All-City bikes can do double duty, blurring the lines between all-road, gravel & cyclocross. But the Super Professional takes it one step further, for the first time combining an adaptable dropout setup to make for easy swaps between geared or single speed builds.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike
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Add to that, the ‘urban cross’ bike has plenty of space to fit big 700c or 650b tires to take on any commute or afternoon joy ride, and enough attachment points most all eventualities.

Super Pro – Tech details

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

Sliding dropouts are by no means a new concept, but All-City’s new Master Dropout is a clean looking solution for a modern thru-axle + disc brake setup, with nice pointed lug tips on the chainstay.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

A removable derailleur hanger on the driveside, pairs with a flat mount on the non-driveside that slides with the Whisky 12mm thru-axle, then a pair of chain tug bolts to dial-in chain tension.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

Beyond the dropouts, the Super Professional is built from a custom double-butted chromoly steel tubeset – what All-City calls 612 Select Tubing. The fork uses matching double-butted legs, plus a nicely lugged fork crown with 4-point from rack mounts.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

The whole frameset gets braze-ons for front & rear rack & fenders, plus two sets of water bottle cage bosses. The frame features 12x142mm rear spacing, a straight 1 1/8″ headtube/steerer (with proper headbadge), threaded BB & 27.2mm seatpost with integral pointed clamp. Max tire clearance is said to be 700c x 45mm or 650b x 47mm. Cable routing is all external for full-length housing, but it also adds stealth dropper post routing for those looking to get rad on the way to work!

Super Pro – Geometry

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

The Super Pro comes in a wide seven size range (43-61cm seattubes) with geometry mostly adapted from the urban Macho Man, albeit with a high bottom bracket for more mixed-surface versatility.

All-City Super Professional – Pricing & availability

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike

The Super Professional is available either on its own as a $850 frameset (frame & fork) if you already know just how you want to build it up, or in two complete bikes ready to roll.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike
2020 All-City Super Professional Apex 1

The geared Super Professional Apex 1 sells for $1600 in a two-tone Blue Panther paint job with a 1×11 swept flat bar setup, Tektro hydro brakes & 700x37mm WTB Riddlers in i23 rims (not including the front rack.) Or, for $1300 you can also pick the simplified Super Professional Singlespeed in Goldust paint with 650x47mm WTB Horizon tires on i23 rims.

2020 All-City Super Professional urban cross bike, Super Pro affordable steel gravel cross cyclocross all-road commuter city bike
2020 All-City Super Professional Singlespeed

Any way you pick it, the new Super Pro is available now through QBP direct to your favorite local bike shop, and ready to start crushing daily commutes and after work adventures.

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PStu
PStu
4 years ago

Glad it takes 650b tires, as the smaller size with the model looks like it would have a lot of toe-verlap.

Kay
Kay
4 years ago

That whole flat mount adapter looks chunky clunky? I thought the whole point of flatmount was to make for cleaner rear triangles, tuck things in tighter…

Dinger
Dinger
4 years ago
Reply to  Kay

I think the reason this adapter looks large is because the stays are so small and we’re not used to seeing this brake standard on a very thin steel stay.

RNW
RNW
4 years ago
Reply to  Dinger

The way the spec works for flat mount, they could have pivoted it down a bit (rotate around the axle) to be closer to the chainstay and be a bit less bulky. The only reason I can think that they didn’t do that is because they wanted to work with more standard bolt lengths, which are usually for 25mm, or 30mm posts?

Alistair
Alistair
4 years ago
Reply to  Kay

The brake mount is part of the adjustable sliding drop-out. The mount on the latest Nature Boy is much cleaner, but that bike now uses an EBB for chain tension. You could run the Super Pro with a 140 rear rotor and it would look much better (removes the spacer between the dropout mounts and the caliper).

roadstain
4 years ago

Kenny Souza’s beefier doppelganger.

Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot
4 years ago

Would rather go black mountain MCD but super cool to see how competitive this space is getting.

Fred Gravelly
Fred Gravelly
4 years ago

Dropper routing?? I guess better to “have it and not need it” kinda thing…

Sarah
Sarah
3 years ago

What rack is mounted on the front of the bike?

Jérémy Navarro
Jérémy Navarro
2 years ago

Le surly rack 8 pack !

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