Cannondale Topstone Bikepacking

To accompany the release they also put together this short video that showcases what the topstone is all about.

Cannondale topstone bikepacking. Cannondale offers the topstone in three different models all of which share an alloy frame and carbon fork. Overwhelmed by the vast range of drop bar off road steeds now available. There s not a lot of travel but it works cannondale claim 30 mm of travel but that equates to 10 12 mm at the axle. Off pavement bicycling and camping where you would if you were to go backpacking.

But the bike isn t without some major compromises though. The topstone sora is the cheapest and features a 2 by 9 speed sora drivetrain with a double crankset 30 46ft and promax mechanical disc brakes. I m quite excited about the 2020 cannondale topstone for a number of reasons. Cannondale s brand new 2019 topstone looks like it might be a contender as a budget friendly gravel bikepacking rig given its room for 700c x 45mm tires triple bottle mounts and complete build starting at just 1 000.

40c wtb nano tires complete the build of the topstone sora. Bikepacking on the topstone. The cannondale topstone carbon gravel offers up superb performance and the kingpin micro suspension design is impressively effective. This isn t one of those bikes.

Widely regarded as the bike industry s leading innovator of game changing technologies cannondale and its handcrafted bicycles continue to innovate across mountain road and electric bikes. Here are the best bikepacking bikes for 2020. First of all it has suspension. Gravel all road 700c.

Things have moved on since then thank goodness and the cannondale topstone carbon is the result of that evolution. Hi i ve vague aspirations to go for a race like the italy divide and want to upgrade to a bike more suitable. Named after a dirt road near cannondale s usa headquarters the topstone has been designed to be both quick on the pavement but capable on the dirt. Thinking of buying a new gravel bike.

Some bikes seem to hit their stride when they re fully loaded up with bikepacking bags. The second option is the topstone apex 1 which happens to be the costliest of. Cannondale topstone sora 10 5kg and us 1299 even with the price jump this year the cannondale topstone sora undoubtedly comes out on top in the gravel category. Cannondale topstone carbon ultegra vs sala cutthroat.

However it s safe to assume that no one at cannondale envisioned the topstone being used for round the world bikepacking expeditions when they were drawing it up.