Refreshed BMC URS blurs the line between gravel and mountain bike genres

From CyclingWeekly.com

The newly updated URS can travel well beyond groomed gravel trails, encroaching into what’s often considered mtb territory

BMC has refreshed its versatile URS line of adventure gravel bikes, with the goal of making them more capable off-road. Headline updates follow current industry trends, namely wider tyre clearances and slacker geometry, but it’s worth remembering that the URS, in all its guises, was already a very able bike over rough terrain.

This latest iteration builds on that purposeful foundation – a quality that BMC likes to call ‘Unrestricted’. It’s a machine built for bike packing, exploration, time spent in nature, and having fun hooning about off-road. It’s not an all-road bike or a gravel race bike – BMC has the Roadmachine X and the Kaius for those scenarios.

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