The fundamental time I heard in regards to the Stir Checkpoint become in the course of a cold cool weather’s eve in early 2018. My boyfriend Brian become daydreaming just a few bike to uncover him by the next Soiled Kanza XL bustle, which become constructing the next Would possibly. The 350-mile extremely-patience match is held on the gravel roads that snake by the Flint Hills of Kansas. Brian become obsessive in regards to the carbon-fiber Checkpoint SL6. Of the 2 dozen bikes he has owned in his existence, finest two were a Stir, so I become intrigued along with his new infatuation.
“Most gravel bikes are modified cyclocross racing bikes too relaxed for long-distance rides on rugged terrain, and they don’t private enough tire clearance,” he explained. “Or worse, they are plodding Clydesdales.”
In his mind, the Checkpoint become a wonderfully balanced trifecta of light-weight, overjoyed, and durable—in other words, the final machine for the upcoming patience contest.
Brian bought the SL6 and rode it at the DK XL a few months later. He had a solid bustle till boring evening when, at mile 100, he become brought down by a catastrophic sidewall jog on his rear tire. After previously racing and ending the shorter DK200 five cases, the interesting Flint Hills sooner or later got basically the most efficient of him on his first extended effort. However the DNF didn’t diminish Brian’s worship for the Checkpoint.
Lucky for all of us, Stir’s 2020 produce, the smoked-cranberry-crimson SL7, is an great extra spectacular freedom machine. It has to be at the tip of the list for any cyclist who loves proceed using or racing.
The root for the bike is its IsoSpeed frame, a protracted-established on all carbon Checkpoints. Stir debuted the frame desig
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