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Van Dessel lets you ride all over the place with new A.D.D. gravelcrossventure bike

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Can’t make up your mind? Wanna ride over here and over there and down this road and that? Having a hard time focusing on just one type of ride? Van Dessel has your Adderall in the form of a bike with their new A.D.D.

Designed to work for cyclocross, gravel or any old adventure style riding, the bike comes with either a carbon race fork or a steel adventure fork, the latter equipped with a wide array of mounts. Take your pic, either one works well on the 7005 aluminum frame with clearance for up to 700×40 road/’cross/gravel tires or 27.5×2.1 mountain bike knobbies. Both forks and the frame come standard with thru axles, but can be converted to work with traditional QR skewers, too…

Van Dessel ADD gravel cyclocross adventure road bike

Above, the engineering drawings. Below, the bike as a road and mountain build, with the cyclocross spec at the top of the post.

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Van Dessel ADD gravel cyclocross adventure road bike

Equally all over the place are the options, letting you put together just about any spec you want, with 1x or 2x cranks, SRAM or Shimano, mech or hydro, cable or wire. The frameset includes the full carbon fork, and these complete bike options are the first time they’re able to offer a complete bike at privateer-friendly pricing with spec like SRAM Apex Hydro.

VanDesselCycles.com

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Michael
Michael
8 years ago

Geometry Chart?

James Fryer
8 years ago

$1K for an aluminum frame? What am I missing?

Michael Cosgrove
Michael Cosgrove
8 years ago

I *REALLY* like the dual functionality of this bike. 29er/27.5+ bikes aren’t that interesting to me, but being able to swap between 700×23 & 27.5×2.1 would give some serious range in capability. Time to talk to Seven about my next custom ti build… 🙂

Cheese
Cheese
8 years ago

So Van Dessel’s aluminum frames are made in Asia now?

okolo
okolo
8 years ago

Yeah, its just this alloy frameset that is made overseas. I think Americans talk a big game when it comes to locally made then they put thier wallets elsewhere.

For those who do value domestically made- VD has thier Hellafaster and Aloominator,, that said I think more Canadians are buying those?

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