Bike of the Week | The Berea Belador Allroad is a Spanish gravel bike with seat stay suspension

21/08/2022 Drive Pilots

Meet the Spanish emblem’s first gravel bike

Bike of the Week is back! In this everyday characteristic, we’ll be displaying off a new, interesting or simply simple cool bike that we’ve been given in at BikeRadar HQ that week.

Kicking matters off for our modern day batch of bikes is the Berria Belador Allroad – a gravel bike with a passive rear-suspension machine that gives as much as 26mm of travel.

The Belador Allroad is the Spanish emblem’s first foray into the gravel bike market.

Berria says the bike is designed for “most performance” and its aesthetic is fittingly aggressive, however the emblem says it could additionally tackle mild bikepacking duties.

It’s all the body details…

_{The Belador Allroad cuts an extraordinary silhouette.}

The Belador Allroad makes use of the emblem’s HM2X carbon body and fork, which functions a combination of Toray T700 and T800 carbon fibres. The emblem says this carbon layup “gives a mix of low usual weight and excessive stiffness, even as incorporating ride-dampening compliance”.

Berria claims a medium body weighs 1,060g.

_{The ‘Active Flex Concept’ gives 26mm of movement.}

The bike’s signature characteristic is a pivot at the seatstay junction. Berria calls it the ‘Active Flex Concept’ and a comparable machine is hired on Cannondale’s Topstone.

The Spanish emblem claims the machine gives “multiplied consolation and reduced rider fatigue… even as enhancing traction, grip and management while the direction turns technical”.

_{The pinnacle tube functions as a mounting for a bento field.}

The bike additionally functions as a bento field mount at the pinnacle tube, in addition to 3 bottle cage bolts at the down tube and at the seat tube.

That’s it for mounting points. If you want to take extra baggage with you, you’ll need to use usual bikepacking luggage that mount with straps.

Berria says the Belador Allroad can be given as much as 700c x 44mm or 650b x 47mm gravel tires. This places it on the racier stop of the gravel spectrum, with many bikes aimed for bikepacking or consolation having clearances upwards of seven-hundred x 50mm.

The turn chip needs to alternate the using traits of the motor motorcycle to fit your needs. Oscar Huckle / Our Media

The fork functions as a turn chip which could regulate the fork’s geometry, despite the fact that we’re ready on precise specifications and the applicable adapter.

The motor motorcycle functions SRAM’s usual derailleur hanger (UDH) and is well suited with each 1x and 2x groupsets, way to a detachable front derailleur hanger.

It makes use of a 27.2mm-diameter seatpost and is well suited with dropper posts.

_{The cables (or hydraulic hoses in this case) are incorporated thru the Avanforce ICS stem.}

Berria has trundled down the mixing course with its tools, cables and hydraulic hoses. The cables and hoses are routed thru the Avanforce ICS2 stem (Avanforce is Berria’s in-residence additives emblem) and thru the higher headset bearing.

A tasty spec list

_{SRAM’s Rival XPLR eTap AXS looks after moving and braking duties.}

Our check motor motorcycle is the Berria Belador Allroad LTD, which retails for £5,100 / €5,900.

However, there are extra low-priced carbon fashions consisting of the Shimano GRX 2x ready Belador Allroad 6. Pricing is to be showed for this model.

There is likewise an aluminium model – the Berria Belador Allroad HP – which retails for £1,500 / €1,750.

^{The 10-forty four cassette needs to get you up maximum climbs.}

Our Belador Allroad LTD, in its sparkly ‘Red Fire’ sweet paint job, is specced with a SRAM Rival eTap AXS XPLR groupset. There aren’t any deviations to the groupset and our length medium pattern functions a 172.5mm crank length, a 40t chainring and a 10-forty four cassette.

_{Vittoria Terreno Dry tyres are geared up onto the Zipp 303S wheelset.}

The LTD comes ready with a highly-priced Zipp 303S carbon wheelset. The wheels come installation tubeless out of the field with Vittoria Terreno Dry gravel tyres in a 700x38mm width.

The complete package is courtesy of Avanforce, Berria’s in-residence emblem, despite the fact that we’ve acquired an aluminium handlebar due to the fact the carbon one isn’t in stock.