6 Unbound Gravel Race Bikes 2022
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- Gravel racing is all the rage right now and arguably the biggest race of them all is the Unbound 200 in Kansas.
After 206 filthy and furiously raced miles, Ivar Slik and Sofia Gomez Villafrane became the 2022 men’s and women’s champions over a field of over 1000 riders!
The best part of gravel racing are the weird and wonderful setups that take to the dirt tracks.
We’ve gone through the start list and picked out 5 bikes from the 16th edition of Unbound (formerly Dirty Kanza).
What do you think? Did we miss someone’s bike that just HAD to be on the list? Let us know in the comments!
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Fat Pigeon - Nol van Loon & Loek Luijbregts
Enve - Avery Stumm
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Canyon Grizl smashed this race too! What I love about gravel racing is no UCI. Huge variety of bikes, water carry systems, nutrition systems, and the self supported style of this race means you've really got to be your own mechanic.
UCI's current gravel rules seem fine to me.
Fuck the UCI.
UCI will come and it will make gravel horrible and yet many people will go for uci races because of fame…
More gravel bike content please ☺️ Thank you!
that 52 to 10-52 cassette pairing is wild
Those Apidura look so good and might set the trend! Great video, thank you!
They're pretty next level aren't they? Thanks for watching, from all at BikeRadar!
Heck yeah cover more gravel events! Favorite build is between the Diverge and Ibis Hakka MX. That mash between Ultegra cranks and 105 Chainrings is gorgeous!
Having done Unbound and a dozen or so other Gravel races, mostly in CO., I finally switched my Diverge Shimano 105 group out for SRAMs Eagle AXS 12s (electronic). Makes more sense as the courses seem to be increasing in elevation and challenge but, then I’m an old fart in my late 60’s and I needed the larger rings!
What do you think? Did we miss someone’s bike that just HAD to be on the list? Maybe you even raced this year? Let us know in the comments!
Fantastic bikes! We missed some of the quirkier ones though, like the amazing Crust Bombora Enve, Rodeo Labs or Lauf builds.
Lauf.
Colin Strickland's bike??
Some people were riding the new Felt Breed bikes; pretty cool.
Would have been interesting if you'd included Jan Heine's steel 26" retro grouch special...
Certainly would be interesting to hear your thoughts ;)
Fantastic vídeo.
My favourity bike is Wilier Rave SLR 👌👌👌
Yass, more gravel content pls!
Great video and production!
Thanks for your comment!
Yes! More gravel please!
Thanks! Nice video!
The crux just looks classic and clean
Meaning - it looks like a road bike, and has little suspension for going over the rough stuff. I'll leave the Crux to the 20-year-olds. I'm sure it's nice, but it wouldn't be nice to my body.
@@workingguy6666 …
No coverage of Rob Britton? Dude came in 6th and had a classified system
Would had expected that one also
Glad to see my tires on here haha. I have the sirrus x2.0 with the specialized pathfinder tires.
FYI, Boswell was on a Romin with mirror, not a power, for anyone interested.
GRX 1x definitely needs a bigger range. 381.8% isn't much. Maybe it's ok for racing on a high level, but even Ian Boswell had an 11-50T (454.5% range) or 10-50T (500% range).
1x sucks for gravel lol
@@pingpongballz5998 - I disagree
@@pingpongballz5998 I went from a 2x to a 1x on gravel, and for we plebes without pro power, I agree - the jumps between the gears are too large to make it pleasant. The chain line sucks for when in the tallest gear, and the tallest gear can't compare to a 2x tallest gear. I swear that I'm slower in every way - except for that huge rear cassette gear that I will use when I take a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to mountainous gravel roads.
@@workingguy6666 I'm never going back to 1x on gravel
@@pingpongballz5998 Every ride I consider putting the old 11-speed 2x GRX crankset on the new bike and just building around it
The saddle on Boswell's bike is a romin and not a power if I'm not mistaken
if he used the one shown in this video then you are correct!
That's right, good spot! Boswell rode a Power last year but a Romin for the 2022 edition. Thanks for watching!
Loving the fairings disguised as frame bags... wait to the UCI gets it's fangs into that one. Oh, does caked on mud improve aerodynamics?
Colnago, has 1x 13, wow thats a large cassette .
Diverge definitely
As a mechanic in the Netherlands I would often see dutch commuter bikes with aero bars.
That Nago is so good
I've add a set of aero bars to my trek verve. Nice having the option of removing weight from my hands plus the aero benefit works even on a hybrid bike.
The aero benefits can definitely be felt on the flat and exposed bits of countryside (the polder) even going very slowly
what's the best budget bike for a low budget?
Imagine losing such a big race because you wouldn’t ride aerobars. Lol
He had a mechanical so
As muddy as he is, indicates he did a lot of drafting.
Yes more
Thanks for letting us know!
Great bikes indeed, buuuut, what about Ashton Lambie's Lauf Seigla? (plus also its very, very cool paint job - due to another discipline, but as long as gravel's not UCI governed, why not?)
women's bikes were the best on the list. Would take either one if I didn't have pro crew backing me up.
C'mon man where's the surly straggler?! I know there was at least one out there.
Ibis ftw!
Honest question, why no panniers? Because of aero?
The pink panther
cover more gravel races
Didn't Slik ride on the just-released G-One RS instead of the regular G-One R?
Yes
Did the Giant Revolt Advance 0 (Bike of the year 2022) not feature in the race.
Specialized paid promotion
Leave GRX as is or Shimano will stop it from being compatible with other group sets.
Damn that's a long stem! Is he trying to compensate for something else or what?
...like a super narrow handlebar?
How about a little suspension on these bikes? Cane Creek eeSilk would surely save some backs, balls and hoohaas! Suspension stem also. They will fig it out eventually.
I rode a lauf fork one time, and the amount of comfort it gave was unbelievable. I domt think there could be anything better for gravel, with all the small bumps.
I'd love to see the viability of more XC bikes run with faster groupsets. I'm wondering if I should do that for my next bike. I have no business on a rigid frame where I live, no roads that aren't country shoulderless pothole hell, all chatter and rocks and not smooth trails here. But my mountain bike runs out of gears
Imagine that the winner won using a 2 X setup 😂😂😂
Which bike won’t snap in half when I crash and snap bones?
Most
Depends on the bones. Are we talking femurs or collarbones?
But it would be interesting to have some sort of "$ per second" ranking... But realistically you won't see an high level athlete with Microshift Advent X, or Sensah SRX, for example.
Where do I find clip on aero bars with the aero clamp shape to suit aero drop bars?
Enve ses aero clip on bars
@@pilikiosuafoa1727thanks. so you would need the Enve aero drop bar to suit the aero bars clamp profile.
@@MrSpecialized75 correct. I have the drop bar and clip on bars and they are awesome! Very sleek design!
Didn’t see the Cervelo Aspero
Anyone riding an OPEN? They need to do more to promote their bikes
Was this event formally called the Dirty Kanza?
Yes. Someone decided dirty kanza was racist and had to be cancelled as the name.
@@jonathanzappala I can't stand this woke generation
@@pingpongballz5998 it can't stand you either. Bababooey.
Heiii.. i didn’t see the canyon… ??
I'm sorry, you did say an average of 22mph on gravel? Sweet Christ
Some mudguards might have saved all that weight of mud clinging to the riders.
the male winner reminds me of jar-jar binks
😇😇😇
Poor Ian sacrificed a #1 for fashion. Aero bars would have easily won back the ONE SECOND he gave up. When will gravel "authenticity" give way to practicality? (Btw - the course was shortened to just under 202mi this year, not 206. Just sayin'.)
"Ad astra per aspera" is the motto and means "to the stars through difficulties". It isn't per aspera ad astra like this guy said.
GRX offers nothing that Ultegra/105 can in terms of 2x and it lags behind Xkar and SRAM for 1x. I run my GRX 800 2x with an 11/42 thanks to a wolftooth goat link. It’s not hard to see why Shimano are lagging behind in innovation and sets - if you want a quality cable chain set in 12 speeds go Campy Chorus… cable free electronic shifting go SRAM….
GRX has the 48/31 crank though which has with an 11-34 casette a bigger gear range than any shimano road groupset. I agree that GRX 1x is pretty lacking
@@5ch4cht3l7 with the long cage derailleur of GRX you can run big sprockets up to 11- 46 easily,,,,
Ivar didn't win because he rode aero bars. He won because he's a sprinter and beat out 2 other non aero bar riders in the final sprint. Ivar's a big dude, the archetypical classics one day racer.
Dude is huge
Aero bars on an off road bike for an off road race....??? And fast rolling tyres.....on a wet/muddy surface....Once a 'roadie' always a 'roadie'...
You should watch Dylan Johnson’s video where he has aero bars on his full sus mountain bike.
Lmao wtf
Ridley is cool!
These are just from the Unbound 200. Its just a glorified road race with mostly retired roadies trying to ruin another sport. Show the bikes of the real event, Unbound XL.
He didn’t deserve the win at unbound. He spend a lot of time drafting behind riders and not contributing so he could sprint at the finish. The others also didn’t use aero bars in the “spirit” or gravel.
This isn’t gravel, it’s road bikes with tri bar’s ridden by over the hill pros.
People who push this shit are destroying the gravel segment.
@@ZenEndurance who says I’m “scared”??
It has nothing to do on a gravel bike.
Gravel riding is bikepacking, enjoying the nature, relaxed geometry etc., not some over the hill ex pros trying to keep their career going.
If they wanna race, go do it on the road or on a mtb
@@ZenEndurance what are you on about 🤷🏻♂️😂
It got nothing to do with the “safety” or “being scared” but destroying the gravel segment.
And ok if you think that aerobars are being widely used 😂🤦🏻♂️
@@ZenEndurance wtf 😂🤦🏻♂️
You have to explain the “unless you are using flat bars and a steel frame” for me 😂🤦🏻♂️
Maybe you should google gatekeeping. This has nothing to do with trying to prevent gravel from being mainstream, it already is.
It got something to do with protecting the gravel segment from American idiots and ex pros trying to keep their career alive.
I love how fat Americans who’ve just started to ride a bike 2 years ago always try to lecture the rest of the world about bicycling 😂🤦🏻♂️
Agreed, dude. I'm like rockin' a 1989 Rocky Mountain Hammer with drop bars, 3X7 , 26 inch wheels, and Biopace cranks. Now that's gravel riding.
@@donjohnson487 are people who bikepack on mountain bikes or road bikes destroying those segments? How far does the segment destroying conspiracy go, are fixed gear commuters secretly working together to sabotage the track bike industry?
*yawn*
All lame and boring bikes.
I find most of the 5 quite ugly. The Crux is handsome, but not entirely beautiful. A Salsa WarBird obliterates them on visuals. It's also very fast and very comfortable (have no experience with the ones shown here - so can't compare). The one weakness (or strength, depending on the perspective or application) of the WarBird is its tight steering: this means stability, but can be an issue for twisty terrains. The WarBird is also a little heavier than some of the bikes shown here, but while undesirable by racers, it does make the bike tougher.