Allied ABLE is here: CEO Drew Medlock and Director of Product and Engineering Sam Pickman on the new gravel bike

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

Outdoors, Interviews, Society & Culture, Current Events, Culture, Photography, Adventure, Mountain Biking, Celebrities, Inspirational, Basketball, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneur, Cycling, Athletes, Sports

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Today, Allied Cycle Works released its long-awaited ABLE gravel bike. Payson has been test riding it for a year now and is pretty sure it's going to redefine gravel racing. He sits down with Allied CEO Drew Medlock and Director of Product and Engineering Sam Pickman to break down exactly what makes the bike so different, including that 57mm tire clearance, and how they developed it from idea to factory floor. They also talk about the input from Payson that was integrated into the final design...

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0:00.0	I'm Pace McElvin and this is the With Pace podcast.
0:05.0	For me, it was one of those things where I was like, oh, we've been doing this wrong.
0:16.0	Like, oh wow.
0:18.0	This is actually how this bike is supposed to feel
0:21.0	for sure we we sort of had it wrong up until this point
0:24.5	I'm pretty convinced to that and
0:26.2	and you know this bike clears
0:29.2	you know it's you can ride between a 45
0:31.8	and a 57 and I can tell you that I
0:34.6	impended 57 all the time
0:36.0	really yes
0:37.0	yes And I can tell you that I am pinned at 57 all the time. Really? Yes.
0:49.4	Hi, everyone, and welcome to With Pace, our first full-length episode since launching this rebrand.
0:53.0	It still sounds a little weird to me, too.
0:53.5	I know.
0:56.0	It's going to take some getting used to for a little while.
1:02.6	I'm sure that's just kind of how rebrands go. Um, I remember a handful of years ago, I had the opportunity to be part of the team that consulted on unbound's rebrand, which used to be Dirty Canza,
1:09.0	of course. And at the time, I actually wasn't a huge fan of
1:13.6	what they settled on, but I'm not going to go into sharing those critiques because clearly I was in
1:20.0	the wrong. And now I can't really imagine that event being anything other than unbound. I think
1:25.8	they nailed it.
1:32.2	So even if you're feeling a little weirded out by this rebrand at the moment,
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