Chapter 2 Founder Mike Pryde with the new KAHA race gravel bike. A quicker, lighter and more refined gravel bike that’s versatile enough to be raced, ridden to work, or pedalled around the world.
Seems a pipe dream doesn’t it, but that’s what New Zealand bike brand Chapter 2 seem to have created with their new KAHA race gravel offering.
A frameset-only company, the KAHA is Chapter 2’s second gravel-specific bike after the AO, a more upright and traditional endurance gravel steed. Like its road-focussed siblings the RERE, HURU, TOA, TERE & KOKO, the AO and new KAHA showcase the brand’s signature point of difference – stunning attention to detail. The paintwork and artwork on these bikes needs to be seen to be believed, and although it’s designed for hardcore events like Unbound Gravel, the blue / grey finish on our review KAHA is sublime.
Picking up a KAHA review bike during January’s Tour Down Under, we’d arranged for the test rig to be built up with a SRAM Force AXS 1x drivetrain with a 40T up front and 10/44 cassette. Wheel wise, we selected Black Inc’s Thirty Four carbon gravel wheels with 40mm Challenger Getaway tyres set up tubeless.
To the saddle and round 27.2mm post, we fitted a carbon post with lightweight frame & saddle clamp along with Fizik’s impressive Vento Argo power-style gravel saddle.
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The review bike is also fitted with a new gravel-specific flared one-piece carbon bar and stem from Chapter 2, the […]
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