With more and more gravel and road bikes mixing in with the mountain bikes at Sea Otter, and some bikes that defy categorization entirely, we’re putting six of the fastest and wildest bikes together in one gallery.
Here are six bikes we saw at Sea Otter, from world championships winning downhill rigs to BMX-inspired RC carriers to boutique gravel racers.
Kyoot RC Cargo custom
Austin, Texas-based Kyoot already makes a very distinctive BMX-inspired mountain bike. The only way to make a show-bike stand out more was to get a custom paint job by Curtis Bullock (@Savethepostalservice) with a matching RC truck to match. Kyoot’s founder says the design is based off BMX, but for trails. And carrying things. Despite the 20×2.25” tires, the founder is actually quite tall. I was able to take his personal Kyoot for a quick lap through the booths and it is a riot to ride.
Alison Jackson’s 2023 Paris-Roubaix winning Cannondale Lab71 SuperSix EVO
Alison Jackson’s historic Paris-Roubaix win is just over a year in the rear-view, but her winning Cannondale still has the dirt from that day caked on it. It’s always cool to see the small changes riders make for Paris-Roubaix, from grip-tape on the bottle cages to little reminders taped to the bars.
Charlie Hatton’s Fort Williams worlds-winning Atherton A.200
When world championships returned to the iconic Fort William, Scotland venue in 2023, Charlie Hatton delivered a story-book ending. The GB rider delivered a win for the home crowd and did so on the Atherton’s beautiful lugged-carbon ____ frame. On display in FSA’s booth, the winning bike shows several touches special to Hatton. Look fast, go fast. Win races.
Basso Palta
On the high-end of gravel builds is this Basso Palta with its stunning pearl-flake and blue paint scheme. Paired with Ekar GT, it’s a drool-worthy all-Italian build perfectly suited to speeding along the white gravel roads of Sienna.
Crust Bombora
A very different use for Campy’s Ekar GT was a pink Crust Bombora. It’s a modern-meets-classic build, with the 13-speed Italian grouppo and carbon fibre wheels sharing space with an assortment of Brooks leather and sweeping wide-flare bars.
Mona Mitterwallner’s XCM worlds-winning Cannondale Scalpel
Mona Mitterwallner stormed to a world championship title of her own on the highly technical, and fast, cross country marathon course in Scotland in 2023. She did so on a very aggressive-looking Cannondale Scalpel.
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