Gargantuan gravel gallery from Taipei

The latest and greatest from the gravel bike sector

3T's Exploro, Gerard Vroomen's aero-road-plus machine that builds on the success of his ground breaking Open U.P.

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Warren Rossiter

Published: March 23, 2017 at 12:25 pm

By far the biggest trend at Taipei, when you discount e-assisted everything that is, is gravel/adventure/all-road, whatever you want to call it. Whilst no one seems to be able to agree on what to name the category the fat-tyred, disc-equipped drop bar bike is everywhere. We assembled a gallery of new bikes that span the extremes from road based to monster tired and everything inbetween.

Warren Rossiter

Senior technical editor

Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).

Gargantuan gravel gallery from Taipei

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