Evil’s Chamois Hagar Has Arrived, a Gravel Bike That Desires to Rock ‘N Roll

Evil chamois hagar with the beautiful design

We’re not saying that is simply an Evil The Following 29er trail-crushing body minus the flowery suspension with drop bars added, however it’s not terribly far off from that. Evil is understood for being, for lack of a greater time period, a “shreddy” model, and it was just a little shocking when rumors started percolating gravel grinder from the Bellingham, Washington, bike maker was within the works.

Then once more, there’s multiple approach to go a couple of gravel bike.

The Chamois Hagar isn’t a motorbike you’d essentially take to set pace data chewing up huge quantities of straight-line actual property. It’s a bike you’d seize for that sequence of lengthy fireplace roads with loads of aspect hits and wallrides built-in, with some flowy singletrack connecting sections. Having mentioned that, it seems prefer it’d be simply nice for that straight-line actual property too.

Right here’s the origin story of the Chamois in Evil’s personal distinctive voice:

“Reasonably than begin with a squirrely street bike and enjoyable into borderline manageable, we began with a mountain bike with shred surging by means of its veins and created the Chamois Hagar.”

The specs are eye-popping. They’re not likely all that completely different from The Following, Evil’s short-ish journey 29er. The Chamois Hagar boasts a 66.67-degree head tube angle with a 50mm stem. The Following v1 (full disclosure, I personal one) is 67.Four-degrees and comes commonplace with a 40mm stem. The wheelbases are related too: 1,154mm for a dimension massive within the gravel bike; 1,163mm for the mtb. The underside bracket drop too is a whopping 80mm. Evil designed its personal fork to suit this bike’s distinctive angles and measurements up entrance. It has a 57mm offset and Evil guarantees no toe overlap (“Noeverlap”) so you’ll be able to crank these bars over so far as you’d like with out bashing your toes. The seat tube will settle for lengthy 125mm dropper posts too.

After all, you’ll be able to match some meaty tires right here. Room for 700c x 50mm or 27.5 x 2.25″ tires (Could be cool if it will take larger 29″ x 2.5″ meats). Although we’re a tad involved about what the largest tires when filled with mud and rocks would do to the microscopic-looking clearance in entrance of the seat tube.

SRAM construct.

Shimano groupset

It is a bike constructed for driving very quick over very tough roads. Or so it’s on paper. We haven’t thrown a leg over one but.

If bikepacking and never pure gravel-slaying is within the playing cards, the Chamois bristles with seven bottle mounts, fender mounts, and prime tube mounts.

The bike is available in one development: carbon. One coloration: “Blackout Drunk” (Oh, Evil). However you may get it in two completely different construct kits: Shimano GRX ($Four,799) or SRAM Power AXS ($5,784).

Now then, the logical query: What in the event you simply put flat bars on this factor? It’s so, so near being a hardtail XC bike with a inflexible fork as it’s. Properly, we don’t know. Haven’t ridden it. Perhaps all this rowdiness provides as much as a rowdy gravel bike, similar to Evil intentioned. After all, a rowdy gravel bike kinda will get near XC bike territory, so now we’re entering into circles. That slack geometry might make long-distance driving extra comfy whereas enabling extra stability within the nasty stuff.

Both manner, it’s intriguing. We hope to check one quickly.

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