2014 GT Grade: the first purpose-built carbon gravel bike
Find out why this bike was so important in the gravel market, and how tech has changed over the past decadeGT reckons that its 2014 Grade was the “first-ever purpose-built carbon gravel bike”, so let’s take a look at why it was such an important design in the development of the genre and see what has changed over the past decade.10 years ago, gravel bikes were still in their infancy.
“On the road, the bike feels very relaxed and easy to control through the bends and in a tight peloton. Head off-road, on a mixture of smoothly surfaced farm tracks and much rougher and deeper gravelled paths, and the Grade shows enormous capability. It never felt out of its depth, never got flustered at speed or on exceptionally rough terrain, it just hoovered it all up.”
“Any road bike you can fit such tyres to is going to have similar capability, but most normal road bikes will struggle with anything wider than 25mm,” said Dave. “That’s why we’ve increasingly seen cyclocross bikes pressed into service on the daily commute.” “Rippled and corrugated dirt tracks were impressively smoothed out and some of the rougher road surfaces we encountered passed unannounced under the wheels.”
Although lots has changed over the past 10 years, we think the original GT Grade remains one of the most influential gravel bikes ever. What do you reckon?
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