Shortly shifting from their debut Customized Highway bike to the stock-sized Melee highway bike to a full-fledged gravel bike that seems prepared for something. Taking all the most effective options and requirements from the market, and even borrowing a pair intelligent bits from mountain bikes, the all-new ENVE MOG goals to be the experience of selection for any journey.
First, what’s up with the title MOG? It’s not an acronym for something, although they’ve a number of recommendations – Mud or Gravel, Machine of Grit, Medium of Grandeur, Made from Glory, Movement on Gravel, and many others. No, it’s merely meant as a verb and frame of mind, somebody prepared to MOG by the longest, hardest rides.
For starters, there’s room for 700×50 tires (aka 29×2.0). It’s designed specificially for 700c wheels and tires…no flip chips or adjustable dropouts to accommodate 650B. Minimal really helpful tire dimension is 700×35.
It makes use of ENVE’s In-Route inside cable system and is offered as a chassis with their Aero Built-in stem, together with a brand new Constructive model with a little bit of rise (versus the detrimental rise mannequin proven on the bike).
In the intervening time, these Built-in stems are solely accessible with the bike or by customized builders, they usually work with their G-Collection, SES AR, SES Aero Highway, and Compact Highway handlebars to create a totally enclosed routing system. Cables/hoses run by the bar, into the stem, then by an outsized 1.5″ higher headset cap in entrance of the 1-1/8″ steerer.
That creates a particularly clear look from tip to tail, and retains cables and all the things out of the way in which of framebags, and many others:
Arduous factors on the fork allow you to mount an Something Cage or related equipment, and high tube bag mounts permit strap-free bento field attachment. Just about the rest might be strapped onto the bike like regular, however there’s additionally inside body storage:
The MOG comes with two customized neoprene software luggage that match contained in the downtube. Merely slide-to-release a canopy plate below the downtube’s bottle cage, and you’ll slide each into the body. They’ll match snacks, instruments, tubes, a windbreaker, or no matter else you need to conceal in there.
A 3rd mounting level sits below the downtube, the place a thick rubber protector shields the body from rock strikes. Hidden elsewhere on the body and fork are fender mounts, too.
The body makes use of threaded T47 backside brackets (not included), supplying you with outsized, light-weight crankset choices with the bigger bearings and threaded ease that T47 affords.
A thick chainstay protector prevents noisy chainslap and scratches. The MOG makes use of a UDH derailleur hanger, making it the second drop-bar bike we’ve seen with this commonplace. Hmmm…
A removeable entrance derailleur hanger enables you to run some 2x drivetrains… solely Shimano mechanical 2x teams are appropriate because the body requires steady cable housing (there’s no built-in cable cease on the body). Any digital 2x group works, however it wants the broader 47-47.5mm chainline of gravel teams like SRAM’s Power Vast or Shimano GRX, which kinda guidelines out Campy 2x. However the Campy Ekar group is okay, and fairly good.
And for 1x teams, it requires direct-mount chainrings. Normal offset chainrings and cranks work as much as a 46-tooth chainring, and Vast/GRX offsets and cranks work as much as 50-tooth rings.
If all that seems like phrase soup, right here’s a chart:
Inside these confines, you’ll be able to run any drivetrain you need, the MOG is just offered as a chassis with cockpit. There’s a Velcro loop contained in the downtube to carry all the things comfortable…it sits below the storage luggage, accessible by that bottle cage cowl port. Simply unstrap them to put in swap cables or hoses.
The MOG chassis is offered with a headset and ENVE handlebar, Aero Built-in stem, and inflexible 27.2 seatpost (saddle not included, although they provide a kind of, too). You get to decide on which bar you need, and, utilizing their new on-line match calculator, select the bar width and stem size. You may also improve to their gravel dropper publish, and add no matter ENVE wheels you need to create a rolling chassis.
Value is $5,500 (€5,995 / £5,300 / AUD $9,999) earlier than wheels or upgrades.
The cockpit choice combines with six body sizes to assist get virtually any rider comfortably on board the MOG. Three completely different fork rakes are used throughout the dimensions vary, too. Word the completely different figures within the geometry chart primarily based on which tire dimension you mount.
The brand new ENVE MOG gravel do-it-all bike is avaialble now.
