BikeTiresDirect, 3T, and Watt Wagon have partnered to offer away a model new 3T Exploro Extremely — within the oh-so-tasty espresso colorway — totally kitted out with SRAM AXS parts!
Throw your hat within the ring for an opportunity to be the fortunate grand prize winner who walks away with this ultra-capable gravel steed. Along with the grand prize, 9 different winners will obtain a $50 BTD reward certificates. The deadline for coming into is Sept. 2, 2024, and winners will probably be contacted that week. The competition is open to US & Canada solely this time round, apologies to our mates in different international locations!
The Grand Prize 3T Exploro Extremely
Get to the worst roads quick with the aero body & road-inspired driving place of the 3T Exploro Extremely Gravel Bike. Many riders lately love driving in tough terrain however dwell in a extra city jungle. So that you want a motorbike that’s quick on the highway and succesful off-road. Hold your grip with large tires and go for the standard spherical, dropper, or suspension publish contained in the Extremely’s aero seat tube. Add a number of packs and the Extremely will probably be prepared for epic in a single day adventures.
The Extremely is 3T’s most excessive bike. Beginning with 55-61mm huge 650b tires, they then designed the entire aero package deal round these to maintain the on-road pace excessive. In case you journey on much less excessive terrain, you can too match 700c tires as much as 45mm WAM (Width As Measured).
The Extremely was 3T’s most troublesome aerodynamic problem thus far: beginning with large 55-61mm tires after which making the bike aero. There’s nothing to be executed in regards to the tires, they’re huge and the knobs don’t assist. What will be executed is to take the airflow mess that comes off the entrance wheel and attempt to catch and redirect it. That’s why you will notice the 60mm huge downtube positioned intently behind the entrance wheel, going even wider because it will get nearer to the underside bracket.
Mixing this into the headtube with an off-center aero profile together with a great deal of different tips provides you a motorbike that feels a lot sooner than your mind can compute. And because of the aggressive driving place, the aerodynamics, the underside bracket stiffness, and the slim Q-factor, the Extremely truly feels 100% like a highway bike if you need to go quick, even when muddy.
Does this sound like a motorbike it’s good to have? Possibly you simply need it. What are you ready for?
ENTER THE GIVEAWAY
Extra in regards to the companions
BTD has been promoting 3T bikes and sponsoring Watt Wagon (aka Cynthia Carson) for practically a 12 months now, and the corporate is trying ahead to what the years forward maintain. Partly, this giveaway is a celebration of their approaching anniversary with each events. For individuals who won’t be acquainted, right here’s a quick introduction to everybody concerned:
BikeTiresDirect
BikeTiresDirect is a web-based retailer based mostly out of Portland, Oregon, and residential to the world’s finest number of bicycle tires, plus tons of bikes, frames, parts, and different biking gear.
They’ve humble roots as a biking membership promoting extra tires on eBay again in 2002, and have advanced over the previous 20+ years to not solely have one of many highest alternatives of tires within the US, however a superb number of merchandise throughout all cycling-related classes.
The BTD customer support staff is on the coronary heart of their enterprise. With many years of motorcycle store gross sales and mechanic expertise, the staff is made from diehard cyclists with a knack for connecting clients to precisely the precise product. Moreover, everybody on workers, throughout all departments, believes in bicycles as a power for good on the earth.
3T Bikes
3T makes completely gorgeous bicycles. The model, previously often known as Tecno Tubo Torino, acquired its begin as a premier handlebar producer in Italy in 1961. The light-weight, sturdy, and aesthetically pleasing parts gained recognition amongst Italian skilled riders earlier than sweeping throughout the peloton, and earlier than lengthy 3T was growing stems, forks, and different bicycle parts. A landmark success was achieved with the setting of the hour file in 1984 on their “Aerodinamica” bars. Their give attention to analysis and improvement with persevering with innovation led them into lighter and stronger steels, aluminum alloys, and ultimately carbon fiber.
The fashionable 3T was born in 2015 with the arrival of Cervelo co-founder Gerard Vroomen as co-owner and head of design. And in 2016 they debuted their first bike, the Exploro, a carbon gravel bike designed not solely to be as aerodynamic as doable, but in addition rugged and able to taking its rider wherever.
Right now the Exploro and its variants are the guts of 3T’s lineup, providing uncompromising designs for the way in which you gravel.
Cynthia Carson / Watt Waggon
Cynthia Carson is an Extremely Endurance Bike owner whose journey into the world of Extremely Biking started in 2021 with first place at Rockstar Gravel 250 adopted by a fourth place at Unbound XL. Since then, Cynthia has discovered herself within the prime step at a number of the largest ultras on the earth together with Unbound XL, Badlands, Throughout Andes, Atlas Mountain Race, GranGuanche Gravel, Transcordilleras, and Reminiscence Bike Journey.
BTD helps Cynthia’s race season with wearable drivetrain parts like chains, cassettes, rotors, brake pads and extra.
You possibly can take a look at BTD at biketiresdirect.com, observe them on Instagram @biketiresdirect, and subscribe to the BTD YouTube channel. Keep within the know as Cynthia travels the world racing ultras at WattWagon.cc, subscribe to Watt Wagon on YouTube, and observe alongside @watt_wagon on Instagram. See the most recent and best from 3T over on their web site 3T.bike, or @3tbike on Instagram.
