Gravel Bike – Ghost Asket AL U

Description

The Asket is Ghost’s mountain bike-inspired gravel bike. This bike is built around an off-road from, with frame design numbers that would make a mountain bike from the mid-2000’s look like a road bike. What does that mean? Better handling when the roads get rough, which they certainly do around here.

This bike has all the mounting points for bags, bottles, pots and pans to make it a fantastic touring bike, or ridiculously cool commuter. Equipped with the entry level Shimano Sora 9x, mechanical disc and a carbon fork to help calm down the road vibrations, this is a great entry level gravel bike that gives a lot of space for further upgrades.

Importantly, this bike is Shimano Sora throughout, that includes important details like wheel hubs. A lot of bike companies will throw on a good derailleur to catch your eye, then cheap out with off brand parts all over the bike. Not here, you get what you pay for here. Also, this bike comes with 40 mm tires, but can be upgraded to 50! That’s huge.

Here is a product review (in German) that is very in depth.