Saw this pic today and it looks like a Crux without integrated cables. Is this our indication that a new crux is not around the corner?
by pennypinchor
Saw this pic today and it looks like a Crux without integrated cables. Is this our indication that a new crux is not around the corner?
by pennypinchor
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Smh, how do they expect people to even ride a bike if cables are showing? Seems like there would be a massive risk of getting snagged or looking poor.
I understand that Spec employees have seen the new Crux. My contacts are very tight lipped about it.
I hope they don’t switch to fully integrated. The headset-brake line issue is so dumb.
It’s inconceivable to me why anyone riding gravel (or MTB) would advocate for the routing of cables into an area of the bike critical to safety and functionality; the steerer and HS bearings. By nature of being a sport mainly played out on dirt surfaces, why invite the ingress of even more dirt, water, mud, debris into such a safety critical area? This is also ignoring the enormous PITA it is to service an internally routed bike, something often needing to be done after races in bad weather. K rant you’ve probably seen before over.
I’d also bet my money on most of their efforts being in the direction of the Diverge as more and more people experiment with larger tires and it’s clearly the platform they dedicated the most development time to in regards to what the “modern gravel bike” expectation from many consumers is (internal storage, big tire clearance, etc). The Crux is a cross bike that they call a gravel bike now because cross is continuing to decline in popularity and they had the platform designed. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just keep bumping up the tire clearance on an Aethos and just drop the Crux eventually, they’re effectively the same bike with slightly different tire clearances, and the Aethos gets you that silly internal routing.
Keegan’s new bike. that’s great ! looking forward to discounted crux
Keegan’s new bike. that’s great ! looking forward to discounted crux
I can see the cables
Well it’s red so they think it is special.
Didnt a new crux come out recently?
Or this is a new model and they are listening to the many many people who want to keep external routing
Yes it’s coming, no it’s not what you think it’s gonna be. Stop asking for integrated cables on dirt bikes.
the crux is the king of new year = new color same bike.
We’re supposed to care?
Smh how could you possibly be aero with those cables?? Wouldn’t be caught riding that bike
Good! The current one is just fine. I bought it specifically to avoid internally routed proprietary rubbery bit nonsense anyway. It’s a perfect bike.
Now get off my lawn. Damn kids!
Nobody except for dentists and pros like integrated cables. So every bike in existence will be integrated in a few years.
Maybe you should watch the youtube video that Outdoorbros posted four hours ago about this. He disagrees but no one really knows.
At a recent manufacturers show in Asia there was a company showing their electronic braking systems… it’s inevitable, not in my generation, (65), but you kids stay safe out there.
He’s still gotta train on a bike for the next 3 months, it wouldn’t surprise me if we still see something at either sea otter or unbound.
sir,
this isn’t BCJ
Thank fuck, why mess with perfection
It’s so crazy to me that we need cables still, where are the electronic brakes?
Cables show because the Crux has the Future Shock stem. And LOTS of gravel bikes and riders run external cables. Reddit commenters = 💩
Looks like it’s still internally routed, and I mean thank God it’s not routed through the headset because screw dealing with that. Not like 99.99% of people riding the bike will benefit at all from the slight aero benefits.
As someone who works at a Spesh dealer, you are wrong. That is all I’m saying.