The ABLE is a high-performance off-road machine that tilts more towards the “mountain skinny” side of the gravel segment. It prefers a big tire but keeps a short rear end - in fact, it’s the same as the ALLROAD at 420mm. This is achieved by the most striking feature on the bike - the elevated drive-side chainstay.
Getting a chainstay this short with high tire volume is a packaging exercise because the chainring, chainstay, and tire all compete for space behind the bottom bracket. On mountain bikes this problem is addressed by widening the bottom bracket -- but that affects Q factor in a negative way. When we made the decision to make the ABLE 1X-specific it opened the design envelope and ultimately led to the decision to elevate the chainstay. By moving it up and out of the way we could make it extremely wide resulting in an incredibly responsive ride.
While our award-winning ALLROAD is a Swiss Army knife for a majority of mixed surface riding, when the path gets rambunctious its road-racing genes might seem lacking. We found ourselves on occasion wanting a bike that was equally engineered, but felt more at home on steeper, rockier and more rugged terrain. It was from this desire that the ABLE was born. It’s lightweight, tight, durable and agile. You can point it in any direction and go.
The ABLE begs to be ripped around on singletrack, fire roads, hardpack dirt, and chunky gravel. Proven on the brutal roads of the 2019 Dirty Kanza where ALLIED athletes Colin Strickland and Amity Rockwell piloted their ABLEs to overall victory.
This frameset will come with a headset and spacers, thru-axles and a seat collar.
Since we do all of our paint in-house, we can give you options galore in choosing a color for your new ABLE:
- We offer two stock colors -- Calvary Blue paint with Ecru decals, or Sport Grey paint with Mystique decals. Both are gorgeous options, making them our best-sellers. And as a bonus, by choosing a stock scheme we're typically able to ship out your frameset a bit more quickly than a non-stock option.
- If you have a keen sense of design and you want to invest in a truly one-of-a-kind paint scheme, we can offer you a "Ready-to-Paint" option. This is when we ship you a fully primed and sealed frameset. It's 100% prepped to be scuffed and base-coated. You can send this to the painter of your choice for a fully personalized paint scheme. We'll send digital Allied assets for your painter to apply as part of the process.
Please the store or come in for a chat to discuss colour and custom build options, we are excited to assist you with your next dream build.
Specs
- MAXIMUM CLEARANCE: 700x47 (or 650x55) front and 700x43 (or 650x47) rear
- BOTTLE MOUNTS: 2x Downtube, Seat Tube and Top Tube bag (or 4th bottle)
- CHAINSTAY: 420mm length, elevated on the drive side
- FENDER MOUNTS: Hidden fender mounts front and rear
- DRIVETRAIN: Purpose-built for 1x
- GEOMETRY: Geometry optimized for gravel and other off-road riding with a headtube angle of 71 degrees and a trail of 66mm for most sizes, with a stack slightly taller than the Allroad and Alfa Disc
