EB16: Breezer Radar Pro takes a more casual approach to gravel, adventure riding

Written by Tyler Benedict September 28, 2016

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Compared to the steel Inversion gravel road bike launched in April, the new Breezer Radar Pro Radar is more utilitarian, all around bike. It fits bigger tires, up to 29×2.1, and it gets a thirst slaking five water bottle mounts.

The frame is butted steel, it just doesn’t get the additional shaping of the Inversion, and gets a straight steerer instead of tapered. Other key differences include QR instead of thru axles, and a chromoly fork rather than carbon.

All cables are run externally, and presumably you’ll want to make sure the shop doesn’t run your front brake cable inside the fork legs as shown here.

Where the Inversion used a post mount rear/flat mount front brake caliper combo, this one uses IS mounts with adapters.

Retail is $1,489 (€1,499) with a SRAM X9/GX mix controlled by S700 hydro levers and brakes. Cockpit is house-brand Oval Concepts alloy parts with a WTB saddle. Wheels are tubeless ready and come with tube-type WTB Riddler 700×45 tires.

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Tyler Benedict is the Founder of Bikerumor.com. He has been writing about the latest bikes, components, and cycling technology for 14 years. Prior to that, Tyler launched and built multiple sports nutrition brands and consumer goods companies, mostly as an excuse to travel to killer riding locations throughout North America.

Based in North Carolina, Tyler loves finding new travel adventures to share with his family and is always on the lookout for the next shiny new part to make his bikes faster and lighter. And, he’s totally gone down the NFT rabbit hole.

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Chader

6 years ago

Nice looking bike. But the dish looks off for the front wheel 😉

PFS

6 years ago

Wow, a good looking bike for a reasonable price. Dont see that too often.

jared

6 years ago

It looks like a copy of a Specialized AWOL…

anon

6 years ago

Reply to jared

Steel adventure bikes have been around for a long time. This isn’t a “copy” of a recent Specialized product.

dr_lha

6 years ago

Reply to jared

You speak as if the AWOL isn’t a already a copy itself (of the Salsa Vaya FYI).

jared

6 years ago

Reply to dr_lha

I didn’t realize how close the AWOL was to a Vaya…if you look at pics of the three without considering the components they are remarkably similar.

http://salsacycles.com/files/bikes/_carousel_thumbnail/Vaya1_Orange_Carousel-sv_640x360.jpg

http://cyclingabout.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Specialized-AWOL-Comp-2016.jpg

http://brimages.bikeboardmedia.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/breezer-radar-pro-gravel-adventure-road-bikes01-600×400.jpg

ascarlarkinyar

6 years ago

Front wheel needs to be centered. Only a problem with qr bikes like this one, not like thru axles…lol

Dinger

6 years ago

Reply to ascarlarkinyar

A thru-axle wheel can be built just as out-of-dish as a QR wheel can.

1368439846

6 years ago

Reply to ascarlarkinyar

Makes absolutely no difference on axle. It’s out of dish.

Thesteve4761

6 years ago

Reply to 1368439846

He meant the hub is not settled in the dropouts. You can’t do that with a thru axle. Very common mistake on qr bikes.

Mike

6 years ago

Seems like a gravel bike from 3 years ago. Harder to upgrade with nice parts in the future with the rest of the industry moving away from QR and and straight headtubes. My gravel bike is the same, and I would have liked more options when upgrading to a carbon 1 1/8 fork, for example. Why buy a new bike that’s already somewhat antiquated? Especially when more updated spec bikes are like $250 more

mudrock

6 years ago

Reply to Mike

Ritchey will have your fork soon. Straight steerer, all carbon, post mounts. It’s on the new Outback, aftermarket fork available soon.

Mike

6 years ago

Reply to mudrock

Nice fork! I would have definitely bought that Ritchey fork when I was looking; I prefer it to the Spot one I eventually purchased.

anonymous

6 years ago

Reply to Mike

Tapered headtube would look silly with a steel fork. A 44mm headtube already looks silly with a steel fork.

motarded

6 years ago

do you even ride gnarmac bro?

ascarlarkinyar

6 years ago

Oh yeah, qr’s, all steel, straight steer tube….time warp back to the future marty.

Chris

6 years ago

Reply to ascarlarkinyar

Just because something is new doesn’t mean it’s better across the board for all applications.

Ryan

6 years ago

ASI’s answer to the Fargo? Nice. I’ll have to look into that one.

Sammich

6 years ago

The cable should be routed through the inside. It provides additional protection from the gravel goblins.

mudrock

6 years ago

Joe Breeze and Ritchey (on the Ascent) may have their reasons for staying away from thru axles on these models. Outside of mountain bike-oriented shops in US and western Europe they won’t be that common. These are two bikes that might be popular with bike packers and world tourists, looks to me.

Nick

6 years ago

Reply to mudrock

I would have to think that a replaceable derailleur hanger would be important to bike packers. Why would you build a frame now without one?

A Different Nick

6 years ago

Reply to Nick

It’s a steel frame, you just bend it back.

Nick

6 years ago

Reply to Nick

However, the rest of the entire bike looks dope! Even the paint job is on point!

Maus Haus

6 years ago

someone screwed up and put the hydro housing through the crown next to the tire…. oops

Beat_the_trail

6 years ago

Seems like another Vaya clone…

And most steel frames don’t need replaceable hangers since you can bend them back several times before you finally nuke the frame, and then you can just weld a new drive side drop out on.