Ah, cyclocross. Our favorite kind of filth—muddy, wet, and so incredibly fun you don’t even think about the lung-
searing effort of chasing people down with a bike slung over your shoulder.

This is serious fun, but we do take cyclocross seriously. These aren’t just road frames with rerouted cables—we use
dedicated ’cross geometry with a slightly sloping top tube, longish chainstays for mud clearance, barely relaxed
angles for enhanced stability, and a parts mix that’ll keep clicking, whirring and working under the harshest, murkiest conditions you’ll find on race day.

This also adds up to make these bikes among the most versatile, adaptive road bikes around, with plenty of clearance for wintertime fenders (with eyelets to mount them!), and the sort of parts that’ll hold up on extended rain rides and road slush.