Adventure, gravel and versatile do-everything road bikes are all the rage at the moment, but your choices if you want a titanium version are rather limited. Another to add to the growing list comes from British brand Reilly Cycleworks and its new Gradient. It’s just landed in the office so take a look through the key details in the video above to find out more.
Mark Reilly, the founder of Reilly Cycleworks, has years of experience designing and building road bikes with a particular lean towards titanium road bikes. This is his first venture into the growing adventure and gravel bike market, and he’s created a frame with huge 44mm tyre clearance, disc brakes, thru-axles and eyelets for mudguards and racks.
It’s described as being an ultra versatile bike that can throw its hand to gravel, adventure, road, Audax and touring. Just about anything, then. The frame is sold on its own for £1,399 and the frame and fork costs £1,599, but we’ve got a complete bike to test costing £2,399. It includes a Selcof carbon gravel fork with a 12mm thru-axle, Shimano 105 groupset with mechanical gears and hydraulic brakes, and Continental cyclocross tyres on Fulcrum Racing Sport wheels.
There’s competition in this titanium adventure bike market from the likes of the new Kinesis Tripster ATR and J.Laverack’s J.ACK, and they’re two bikes we’ve been really impressed with. The price of the Reilly Gradient does undercut those rivals but a little bit so it’ll be really interesting to see how it performs.
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10 thoughts on “Video Just In: Reilly Gradient titanium adventure bike”
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Excuse my ignorance, but
Excuse my ignorance, but would it be considered bad form to spec this with flat bars, mtb shifters and a suspension fork?
Mungecrundle wrote:
You’d want more than a 1X though.
Mungecrundle wrote:
dare you saying that gravel bikes are the same as XC hardtails? 😉
would also look neat if the geometry works. theres a few titanium hard tail like that. they tend to have a bit of a beefier frame though.
This looks great.
This looks great.
I bought an Arkose last year, which replaced a touring bike that I was using as a do anything bike. I really do think these adventure bikes, or whatever you choose to call them, are fabulous. It is great fun, feels indestructable, and has kept me cycling through the winter and rubbish weather, and really does allow me to pelt down gravel tracks far more comfortably then on the touring bike. At some point I will replace it, and probably my carbon fibre road bike (but not shortly, I like them both too much), for one bike – and it will be something like this, a titanium adventure bike.
Very nice, love how he’s
Very nice, love how he’s dealt with the tricky dropout / discmount area.
Is it actually welded up in the UK?
Looks great. Sounds great
Looks great. Sounds great too.
Love the life time warranty.
Price resonable.
Just not too keen on cables on the outside. I would rather perfer Di2 compatible and internal wiring.
hsiaolc wrote:
My EXACT thoughts! My LBS thinks the external routing is easier to live with which can’t be argued i guess – and a touch lighter. main competition is the J.ACK which is a work of art
Frame geometry is setup for
Frame geometry is setup for racey aspect, headtube angle 73 degrees, the Tripster has 70 degrees making it a better tourer. Why are stack and reach to be confirmed?
where do I sign up…
where do I sign up…