Since last winter, I slowly started getting into gravel bikes, and starting with the Traka held in Spain this year
my excitement has already increased a lot.
Was it 2022? I happened to try a Canyon Grizzl that came up cheap, and it was so fun that I tried the Openup,
and I realized that racing gravel bikes suit me better than travel gravel bikes that are like multi-tools.
More importantly, don't racing gravel bikes come out so beautifully these days?
So I looked through almost every company's gravel bikes, and I came across the Cannondale gravel bike, the SuperX, which I hadn't even thought about.
Only the black frame complete bike came to our country, and the new color frame called 'Moonlake' was so beautiful.
So I send emails everywhere. Would the importer bring it in? Probably not.
'Do you have stock? Can you send it to Korea?'
-Gemini did something big.-
'No stock lol' or 'We can't send to Korea'
Then I found someone who could send it to Korea at a reasonable price. I ordered it right away.
But I had to wait a bit, so I needed to prepare the drivetrain in the meantime.
After waiting so long, assembly is complete..ㅜㅠ
I got tired of waiting for the frame, so I had no energy to assemble it myself and asked the shop.
The size is 54, and I configured the drivetrain with SRAM XPLR, with only the crankarms in red..
It should be assembled well, so I need to ride it right away.
I used Campagnolo Ekar 13-speed before, and the feel of the shifting is roughly similar.
Since there's no 14T, that range is a bit disappointing, and with the reduced power it's hard to cover that gap..
But why did I choose 13-speed? Thinking about it, riding gravel in 2023 and 2024 was just so much fun.
It satisfied the thirst for 'where will I end up if I go there?'
Of course, it's true that gravel is ambiguous domestically.
But even just outside of Seoul, there are quite a few places to ride, and it's not that bad to ride on normally??
It's kind of like the feeling of driving an SUV..
I've been suffering from frozen shoulder, and when I ride the Dogma, my shoulders and biceps hurt and my arms go numb, so I rotate my shoulders and bend my arms behind my back to stretch while riding=_=
But when I rode the SuperX for about 90km, I didn't have that, so the position itself seems comfortable.
The wheelset is one I custom-fitted at Pasports long ago, and it weighs about 1,400g.
It's the only wheelset I've kept while changing wheels over the years, and it shows the best compatibility with any tire.
Let me ride it first and then think about whether to switch the wheelset to ZIPP or Roval..
With this setup, it came out to 7.8kg including the pedals.
I was surprised when I held the frame because it was so light. Can a gravel bike be like this? ㅋㅋ
I need to go to a dirt road.( +_+)
