Gravel without the grrr…
Itβs ok, youβre amongst friends. This is uncharted territory for all of us. Does us making, and you considering, the Switchpath Ti mean weβve both crossed a line? Gone to the dark side, as dark as asphalt, and the photo-filter of choice is βgrainy black and whiteβ for added macho vibes?
All this adventure-bike hype is just a way of more people finding the joy of leaving the tarmac and going where they want, how they want – and thatβs definitely our territory. We canβt help noticing this modern gravel geo plays to our heritage too. So, all in all, time we got involved.
The Switchpath is a gravel machine from the mountains, not the r*@d.
You can sleep easy knowing weβve drawn a line in the gravel and come down firmly on the side of the mountain fraternity. This is as close to the r*@d as we can cope with. It means no compromise on the fun and can keep your shorts as loose as your riding. Just so weβre clear – this is not a green light for lycra.
Stay loose
Weβve slackened off the head angle further than most to 70ΒΊ, so you can still go further and faster, but βfunnerβ too. Thereβs room here for 47mm tyres to keep things on the playful and aggressive side. Take on the techy trails that other bikes in this category would have their owners filling their far-too-tight pants. Letβs face it, in the 90s youβd have been downhilling on these measurements.
Thereβs all the trademark βbuild-it-how-you-want-itβ Stanton goodness here. Go full superlight dreambuild with carbon drops, or stick on the flat bars and dropper post you know and love for some old school XC vibes. We recommend anything from a 60 to 90mm stem, and youβll find I.S. brake calliper mounts for added flexibility too.
Where you wonβt find any unwanted flexibility is in the triple-butted, aerospace-grade Ti frame. Put together by the finest fabricators weβve ever found with welds that are as strong as they are satisfying to look at.
Customised and Personal to you
You can pair it with a carbon fork or our seriously special, and unique to Stanton, titanium one. We like to see it as an example of how we donβt just follow the herd but look for interesting, innovative and engineering-led answers. The fact those answers also look insanely badass is what weβre all about too.
All our frames are hand-finished at our Derbyshire HQ and you can choose the final look with blasted, cerakote or anodised decals. Adding some unique beauty to titaniumβs famed hard-wearing, corrosion-resistant properties.
With the Switchpath weβve stuck to our principles and created something that fits with our gravity-inspired, playful philosophy – we like some grins with our grrr.
As usual weβve gone our own way. With the Switchpath you go yours.
LINKS
VIDEO – The Switchpath Ti Launch Video
VIDEO – Switchpath Ti Dream Build