Geek Warning: Cervelo redesigned its Aspero gravel bike, and thankfully didn’t screw it up
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 960 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Sea Otter Classic just wrapped up literally a few days ago, but clearly someone forgot to turn off the tap of new bikes and gear. Cervelo just announced a redesign of its ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike, and clearly put a lot of thought into what needed to change – and perhaps more importantly, what didn’t. Colnago also just dropped a new gravel bike of its own, the G4X, and Giant finally revamped its Trinity TT bike – no more rim brakes! Dave and James also chat about the eight billion tubeless valve stems out on the market, our favorite mountain bike computer mounts, and some of the latest happenings on the industry side.
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Timestamps:
3:17 – Cervelo’s ultra-popular Aspero gravel bike gets a careful redesign
10:50 – Zwift has added a whole bunch of new features, and some of them sound pretty sweet
15:15 – What’s up with seemingly everyone having their own high-flow tubeless valves now?
28:11 – Pick one! Our favorite mountain bike computer mounts
38:54 – A dirty cassette can easily turn into a skipping chain
43:22 – Colnago announces its new G4X gravel race bike
58:54 – The last holdout of rim brakes in the pro peloton is no more
59:30 – Enve Composites has been sold
1:01:07 – What the heck is going on at Rapha?
1:06:29 – More industry layoffs, this time at Cannondale
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| 0:48.0 | I know it was Sea Otter just a few days ago. |
| 0:50.9 | Seemingly the whole bike industry had something to offer that they |
| 0:54.1 | announced new but there has nevertheless been yet another pile of stuff |
| 0:58.6 | announced in the last few days that we're going to talk about we got a |
| 1:01.6 | new Servello Aspero we got Kolnago's got a new Cervello Aspero. We got, |
| 1:03.2 | Collego's got a new gravel bike. |
| 1:05.3 | Giant has a new time trial bike that, shockingly, |
| 1:09.2 | the biggest news is that it doesn't have rim brakes anymore. |
| 1:11.6 | We got a whole pile of new features from |
| 1:13.5 | SWIFT and since seemingly not a day goes by without some crazy industry |
| 1:19.5 | news going on we've got some stuff to talk about with Enby, Cannondale, and Raffa. |
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