Four reasons why gravel bicycles will become more powerful in 2025
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Gravel bicycles are one of the fastest-growing bicycle categories.
Gravel bikes can be ridden on uneven bike lanes, cobblestone streets, and rugged dirt roads like mountain bikes, with the key difference being their faster and more efficient riding positions.
If you install some narrow smooth tires, you may even find that they can keep up with the pace of road bikes.
In this article, I would like to discuss four reasons why gravel bicycles are about to become better.
Currently, most gravel transmission systems use 1:1 climbing gears.
Assuming the average weight of a cyclist is 80 kilograms/176 pounds, they can continuously output 150 watts of power.
At a slow pace of 60 RPM, our cyclists can comfortably ride on a maximum slope of only 6.6%.
Gravel roads often exceed this slope, so no wonder most people find it difficult to climb mountains!.
The SRAM Apex Eagle transmission system can use 38 tooth front teeth and 52 tooth rear flywheel.
The good news is that the gravel bicycle transmission system can finally provide an appropriately low transmission ratio in 2024.
On bicycles equipped with SRAM Apex Eagle transmission and 38T discs, our average weight of 80 kilograms/176 pounds riders can now comfortably ride on 9.4% slopes – which means a significant increase of 30% in slope.
The latest Shimano GRX 1X transmission system is not far from us anymore.
With the same size rear flywheel and 38 T toothed disc, our riders can climb a slope of 9.2%.
When it comes to the 2X transmission system, Microshift offers you a new Switch kit.
