From BikeRumor.com
Written by Jordan Villella and Cory Benson
Cross-country mountain bike racing continues its steady march toward absolute chaos in the best possible way. It’s no longer mountain bikes, gravel bikes, or road bikes. It’s the best bike for the race at hand.
The latest example? Cannondale Factory Racing (CFR) showed up to the Nové Město World Cup with a LAB71 Scalpel sporting a set of Reserve 48|53 GR aero carbon gravel wheels. Deep-section gravel wheels. On a World Cup XC bike. At one of the fastest short-track courses on the calendar. In fact, these are deeper aero prototype wheels that aern’t even available for gravel bikes yet!