Review: Great for everything from winter road use to gravel adventures and commuting. cycling moda_bikes
Moda's Molto Gravel offers some big tyre clearances and geometry that works well on loose surfaces, and those things make it a very capable winter road bike too. This bling build makes the Molto a high-end addition toTechnically the Molto is a gravel bike, but thanks to Moda's willingness to a build to the spec you wish, you can also go down the winter road route, as many customers do. That is why the build you see here is running a road grouspet, slick tyres and full mudguards.
In the real world it's only on really fast sections or technical downhills that you are going to notice the lack of speed and precision in the front end compared to a race bike. And you're not going to need either on the grotty roads of winter, or when filtering your way through the traffic on a commute.
As the roads got wetter and muddier the Molto showed its composure when descending, tackling tight corners or being banked over on roundabouts. The fork transmits plenty of feedback from the tyres, so I always had a feeling of reassurance as to how much grip I had. Even on loose gravel the Moda doesn't feel out of control or flustered. That neutral handling, although feeling a little quicker on less smooth surfaces, still feels hugely controllable.
If you want to seriously load up and head off on an adventure, or at the other extreme tackle really rough sections, the Molto might not be the best choice due to the road-esque geometry. For those kinds of shenanigans, you might want something with even bigger tyre clearance and slacker geometry. Saying that, we are talking the extremes here of probably what a gravel bike is capable of.
As I said, I rode the Molto with the 45mm Schwalbes, and with their shallow tread there was still plenty of clearance front and back. Everything else is as you'd expect, with 12mm thru-axles front and rear and with flat mounts for the calipers. As a standalone groupset I was critical of its price as it is no longer as much a 'for the people' option as it once was, but it doesn't seem to have pushed up full bike prices.
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