When Pinarello wanted to take its Grevil platform to a new extreme, the Italian brand had a pretty good idea where to start. It’s Olympic- and world championships-winning Dogma XC bike provided an excellent foundation to launch the the brand into the new world of no-limits gravel.
The Grevil heritage, the MOST Talon Ultra Light cockpit of Pinarello’s flagship road bikes and the offload chops of the Dogma XC combine for a gravel bike ready for anything.
“The Grevil MX is designed for riders who push gravel beyond its typical boundaries. It’s a very versatile bike, perfectly suited for races or adventures where you’re riding into the unknown. It can handle long climbs and rocky descents with ease and combines the feeling of a MTB with the ergonomics of a road bike. It’s a unique addition to our gravel range,” says Pinarello President Fausto Pinarello.
Grevil Knievel? MX borrows heavily from MTB experience
The Grevil MX looks a lot like, well, the Dogma XC hardtail mountain bike. But with, arguably, a way cooler colour scheme. The Dogma XC is the bike the Italian brand designed for Pauline Ferrand-Prevot to race at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. And that is a good thing for gravel racers looking to go fast over rough terrain, considering Ferrand-Prevot won not only the Olympics but several world championship titles aboard the hardtail race bike. In fact, the Grevil MX is compatible with the MOST Talon XC cockpit for more mountain bike-oriented set-ups.
That MTB stability in the rough is combined with, Pinarello says, the “aerodynamic efficiency of a road bike” for comfort and speed on long endurance rides. The drop-bar twist though “enables a lower, more compact and faster position,” adds Pinarello in the release notes.
Geometry is, ahem, very close to the Dogma XC. That’s gravel-friendly, though, with a 67.75-degree head angle. The frame uses, like the Grevil line it joins, Pinarello’s top-end Toray M40J carbon fibre and fully integrated TiCR cable routing. A triangular BB area lends significant stiffness to the bottom bracket area while the asymmetric rear triangle design helps resist flexing when climbing under heavy loads.
Pinarello says the Grevil MX is optimised for 50mm gravel tires (that’s roughly 2.0″) for “an optimal blend of traction and fatigue reduction.” The frame looks like it will clear significantly wider tires. That 100mm Fox 32 Step Cast fork certainly has room for beefier rubber, easily clearing…
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