Occasionally seen Chinese language model EXS, within the UK not less than, had a stand at Rouleur dwell staffed by an extremely effusive member of the staff. In between waxing lyrical in regards to the model’s titanium axles for the Specialised Tarmac, its superlight stems, and its new built-in bar-stem combo, I used to be proven a fork that has the potential to permit a Specialised Aethos, or any round-tubed bike it was claimed, to run the hoses and cables contained in the body totally.Â
The fork is primarily geared toward these bikes that already function a point of inner cable routing. The Aethos on this hypothetical instance is routed internally from the top tube, however externally from there to the bars. Should you wished to make a motorcycle that was totally exterior you would need to get a bit useful with an influence drill and really a lot void your guarantee.Â
I did not get many pictures, such was my whirlwind go to together with a slight language barrier, however from what I gathered the fork, together with a corresponding stem options a big channel down the entrance by means of which a entrance hydraulic brake hose will be fed.
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With this EXS fork you may, it appears, make any partially internally routed bike into a totally inner one.(Picture credit score: Will Jones)
So efficient is it that I assumed this was a tarmac SL8 at first look. (Picture credit score: Will Jones)
So as to preserve issues neat the fork ships with an higher bearing, bearing cowl, and a collection of spacers. It’s unclear how one would then plug the next holes, nevertheless it’s a mark of how efficient it’s that the bike on the model’s stand completely handed me by as I assumed it was ‘simply’ a Tarmac SL8 with a flowery paint job. It was in truth an SL7, working its hoses internally.
The model’s consultant on the stand was initially eager to level out that this might make bikes just like the SL7 or the Aethos extra aero, or not less than minimize a extra trendy look, however equally there are a good few trendy classics just like the Cannondale SuperSix Evo HiMod (the one the place the chainstays aren’t dropped) that might obtain a contemporary overhaul.
Along with this intriguing carbon fork system the model had a load of hyper mild goodies on present too, lots of which I’ve included in my Rouleur Dwell tech gallery. An intricately anodised rear hub – spectacular given it is part of the bike so hardly ever seen by anybody aside from the proprietor and their mechanic – together with a full titanium 12 pace cassette, seatposts, a 3D printed titanium bottle cage, and a blindingly mild built-in one-piece stem cap and stem bolt combo.Â
There is a lengthy solution to go earlier than weight-weenie-ism takes again the bottom it has misplaced to the aero brigade, nevertheless it appears EXS not less than is doing its half to redress the steadiness.
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