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It also features smaller diameter grip areas from the drops past the hoods, to allow for thick 4mm bartape wrap providing more comfort without resulting in an overly bulky bar to hold on to, especially helpful for riders with small hands. Also made by Basso in Italy (like the frame, fork & seatpost) the new subtle 8° flared compact carbon gavel bar gets 122mm of drop, and fully internal routing. With the integrated routing & stem comes a new Basso handlebar. The new Basso -8° alloy stem guides cables out of the bar in through an open channel tucked under the stem body for easy access and simple height adjustment.
#PRACTICA MUSICA NEW PALTA FULL#
Improved integration comes by way of full internal cable routing (1x & 2x, electronic or mechanical compatible) through a straight 1.5″ headset and a stack of split 5mm spacers. The unique forward-swept Basso fork design returns with more offset and wider open clearance as its crown transitions more smoothly into the downtube for aerodynamics, but with improved vibration damping in the legs as well. More dramatic tube shaping, squared & aero with Kamm tail profiles reduces drag with a nice side benefit of actually making for a more seamless & stable setup with bikepacking frame & saddle packs. The made-in-Italy Palta II is still not meant to be an ultralight frameset, and while Basso hasn’t yet shared an official frame weight figure, it looks to hover just under the 1000g level. Getting back into the details, the reduction in weight comes down to refined carbon layup, but Basso admits the weight savings is probably in the tens of grams after moving to larger diameter tube shapes, as well.
But they also pair that with more fork offset for longer front center lengths and improved off-road handling, effectively moving rider weight balance a bit back in the process. Surprisingly, the new bikes get 5mm shorter chainstays while increasing tire clearance by as much. Small shifts happen in frame Reach too, but mostly to have more consistent reach spreads across the larger frame sizes. Most riders should be able to get by with fewer spacers now, and those looking for the most aggressive setup can still #slamthatstem. The new bike features ~2cm taller stack for the more comfortable & standard performance positioning, yet without needing a tall spacer stack. The new Palta II’s frame Stack & Reach are tweaked a bit, but Basso says this was less about changing rider position and more adapting to where people actually set their bars. Interestingly, what’s not super new is the bike’s geometry, more or less unchanged from the original Palta as Basso worked hard to preserve that road racing character, refined for gravel riding & racing… call it a gravel road bike.īasso kept the core head & seat angles effectively the same as before to preserve their ideal quick handling. I figured that tire clearance would only grow incrementally, but didn’t really anticipate how much more capable the new gravel bike would become off-road.
#PRACTICA MUSICA NEW PALTA UPGRADE#
I correctly guessed that the new bike would retain Basso’s road-inspired ride and upgrade to full integrated cable routing like their latest road bikes.
#PRACTICA MUSICA NEW PALTA UPDATE#
Last month when we recently reviewed the first generation Palta, we already knew an update was coming soon. It maintains a very similar overall profile to the first-gen Palta, but now gets slightly more aggressive aesthetics with large aero-shaped tubing, the cleaner cable-free cockpit with reduced spacers, and the ability to run bigger tires. Boiling it down to the essentials, the all-new bike is: lighter, more aerodynamic, more integrated, more comfortable, more equipped for adventure, and it fits bigger tires now up to 45mm.
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