Nordest Kutxo is going giant-gravel with low-priced metal drop bar 29er journey bike

Nordest has a brand new low-priced 4130 metal Kutxo drop bar journey bike that combines the nice gravel, bikepacking, and mountain bikes to take you in addition off the crushed track. giantcross is dead. Long stay giant Gravel.

Nordest Kutxo giant gravel journey

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It’s now no longer regularly that something defined as a ‘dog’ looks as amusing as this bike. But the Kutxo takes its call from the operating puppies of the small faraway Portuguese village of Carção, who later followed the visiting Almocreve traders crossing extensive-ranging terrain from the mountains right all the way down to the ocean hauling grain down and sardines returned up. Interestingly, that’s every other hyperlink among this new Kutxo and Nordest’s long-strolling Sardinha that is a comparable metal 29er journey bike, however with extra mountain bike leanings.

What’s new in Monster Gravel?

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But at the same time as the Kutxo has apparent roots in mountain bikes, its fashion and trip lean extra toward an adventurous gravel rider – designed round drop bars with a shorter body reach, shorter wheelbase, and barely steeper head angle. Its tire clearance isn’t as large as the Sardinha, however it is nevertheless massive for gravel at 29 x 2.4″ making this journey bike acceptable for journeys through quite a lot of terrain.

Tech details

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The made-in-Taiwan double-butted 4130 chromoly metal body is constructed for the whole lot from railing singletrack to multi-day bikepacking rides with brief 430mm chainstays and MTB-stimulated geometry which includes a 68° headtube – to be paired with brief ~70mm stems and extensive flared drop bars.

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The Kutxo is designed round a 483mm axle-to-crown, 51mm offset suspension-corrected inflexible metal fork with gussets on the headtube so that you can construct it up absolutely inflexible or with a 100-120mm suspension fork for extra competitive drop bar riding.

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The body and fork get heaps of braze-on mounts for any racks, fenders, a direct-mount pinnacle tube bag, plus  3-% whatever cage mounts at the body and every other  at the fork legs.

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Pedro Jerónimo advanced the 2690g body (length M/L) for sturdiness and flexibility with classic & demonstrated requirements like a 73mm BSA backside bracket, Boost MTB thru-axles, instantly TR44 headtube (for instantly or tapered steerers), 31.6mm stealth dropper well matched seatpost, full-duration outside routing, flat mount disc brakes, and 1x or 2x compatibility.

Nordest Kutxo – Pricing, options & availability

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The new Nordest Kutxo is available in 3 inventory sizes (M, M/L & L) and  matte colours – Sand or Purpura.

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The Kutxo won’t formally be to be had till April of subsequent year, however you could pre-order frames or framesets now for a terrific cut price and time to supply all of the additives to construct one up for journey subsequent spring.

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On its own, the pre-order Kutxo body is 650€ (an 80€ savings). Or you could pre-order the Kutxo body package for 820€ (saving 130€) that still consists of the suspension-corrected Kutxo metal unicrown fork and a Cane Creek forty headset.

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