Baum Cycles DBM titanium gravel bike is a drop bar mountain bike, angled Support us! Bikerumor may earn a small commission from affiliate links in this article. Learn More
Baum Cycle’s latest DBM titanium gravel bike is actually a mountain bike, a drop bar mountain bike. Fully embracing the fact that modern adventure gravel bikes are pretty much just reworked old-school rigid mountain bikes, Baum goes full MTB with their latest drop bar bike. In other words… proper modern wide XC bike tire clearance, low gears to climb steep mountain grades, and a dropper to send it off sick jumps… even in the drops! Baum DBM titanium gravel bike is a drop bar mountain bike
(Photos/Baum) Baum Cycles calls their latest DBM “a gravel bike with MTB DNA”. Founder and CEO, Darren Baum loves riding the inevitably steep local powerline tracks from Baum’s HQ southwest of Melbourne, Australia. But those steep climbs and downhills are also more technically demanding than most gravel bikes can handle, so he wanted ever-wider tires to maintain grip and control. Baum Cycles DBM titanium gravel bike is a drop bar mountain bike, wet riding “I normally ride in the Brisbane Ranges along McLean’s highway. Whoever McLean was, he didn’t know what a highway was. It’s got 20%+ pinches in it. I’ve wanted a bike to handle that kind of ride for a long time…. We’ve been doing it for the last 20 years.”
His solution is 29″ x 2.25″ or 2.4″ mountain bike tires […]
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