Gravel cycling is maturing. We’ve started to settle into the ruts, and the wild experimentation of years past is falling away. There are adventure bikes and gravel race bikes and there’s not a lot of crossover anymore. Do you want to go fast in a one-day race or underbike on single track? Whatever feels best to you, we have options on our list of the best gravel bikes. What if you are looking for something a little more personal though?
Have you ever considered a bespoke bike that is uniquely yours? Argonaut sits in the high desert of the American Pacific Northwest and it has a new gravel bike for you to consider. It’s a bike unlike anything else on the market, not only because every single frame is hand built to your exact measurements but also because it’s a go-fast gravel bike that bends genres. You could describe it as a gravel race bike but as the big brands move towards road bikes with tyre clearance, Argonaut is going the opposite direction. The establishment is zigging and Argonaut is zagging, but does it work? I spent a day in the landscape near the headquarters testing just that and I came away impressed. If you feel like the gravel bike you want doesn’t exist, keep reading. It could be that the perfect bike is out there but you haven’t heard about it before today.
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Design and aesthetics
Most people across the globe think of Portland as Oregon and Portland is almost synonymous with rain. That’s pretty far from the truth though; Portland sits against the border and the vast majority of the Oregon landscape is high desert. Instead of the greens and blues of Portland you can expect a lot of brown with a bit green here and there coming from the abundant Ponderosa Pine trees.
The Argonaut GR3 takes the colour palette of central Oregon and distils it down into a series of swatches. Then those swatches play out across the frame as a series of angles that quite literally spray the landscape across the carbon. There’s even a bit of orange that seems like a reminder of the wildfires that come to this part of the world every year. Rather than stand out with a stark white, red, or even black, Argonaut goes with the flow. The angles of the…
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