BMC has refreshed its versatile URS line of adventure gravel bikes, with the goal of making them more capable off-road. Headline updates follow current industry trends, namely wider tyre clearances and slacker geometry, but it’s worth remembering that the URS, in all its guises, was already a very able bike over rough terrain.
This latest iteration builds on that purposeful foundation – a quality that BMC likes to call ‘Unrestricted’. It’s a machine built for bike packing, exploration, time spent in nature, and having fun hooning about off-road. It’s not an all-road bike or a gravel race bike – BMC has the Roadmachine X and the Kaius for those scenarios.