Bicycling Australia

The Aethos of the S-Works Crux

Watching Pogi win Strade Bianche this year (on his Colnago V4Rs road bike), you have to wonder about how far you can push a road bike into the dirt and how far you can push a gravel bike onto the tar. While the pro’s might push a road bike as far as the cobbles of Paris Roubaix, they have that luxury of a team car with spare bikes on the roof.

“THERE’S NOTHING ON THE CRUX YOU WOULD WANT TO CHANGE AS EVERYTHING IS ALREADY TOP OF THE TOP END”

While real heroes might just carry on with a bone shaker velocipede everywhere and anywhere, I for one prefer to ride a gravel bike on the gravel and a road bike on the tar, or a gravel bike when I am clueless about what I will find 100km from the

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