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.
Nice looking bike. But the dish looks off for the front wheel 😉
Wow, a good looking bike for a reasonable price. Dont see that too often.
It looks like a copy of a Specialized AWOL…
Steel adventure bikes have been around for a long time. This isn’t a “copy” of a recent Specialized product.
You speak as if the AWOL isn’t a already a copy itself (of the Salsa Vaya FYI).
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
Front wheel needs to be centered. Only a problem with qr bikes like this one, not like thru axles…lol
A thru-axle wheel can be built just as out-of-dish as a QR wheel can.
Makes absolutely no difference on axle. It’s out of dish.
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.
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
Ritchey will have your fork soon. Straight steerer, all carbon, post mounts. It’s on the new Outback, aftermarket fork available soon.
Nice fork! I would have definitely bought that Ritchey fork when I was looking; I prefer it to the Spot one I eventually purchased.
Tapered headtube would look silly with a steel fork. A 44mm headtube already looks silly with a steel fork.
do you even ride gnarmac bro?
Oh yeah, qr’s, all steel, straight steer tube….time warp back to the future marty.
Just because something is new doesn’t mean it’s better across the board for all applications.
ASI’s answer to the Fargo? Nice. I’ll have to look into that one.
The cable should be routed through the inside. It provides additional protection from the gravel goblins.
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.
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?
It’s a steel frame, you just bend it back.
However, the rest of the entire bike looks dope! Even the paint job is on point!
someone screwed up and put the hydro housing through the crown next to the tire…. oops
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.
That’s basically another Salsa Vaya inspired bike…only several years later than the original !
Frame looks an almost identical to the 2014/15 Verenti Substance
> thirst saking
I think you wanted slaking.