The Assassin is a progressive gravel bike with a massive breadth of ability. Its adjustable geometry creates capability in place of compromise, allowing you to tailor the handling to how you ride. It’s exceptionally light, responsive and comfortable. In short, Assassin is the answer, whatever question your gravel riding asks.

What is it?
The Assassin is a progressive gravel bike with a massive breadth of ability. Its adjustable geometry creates capability in place of compromise, allowing you to tailor the handling to how you ride. It’s exceptionally light, responsive and comfortable. In short, Assassin is the answer, whatever question your gravel riding asks.

Who is it for?
Everyone: explorers, shredders, racers, bikepackers and anyone else who loves getting away into the countryside. The Assassin’s adjustable geometry and category-leading compatibility maximise performance in every situation.

Why did we make it?
Because we love gravel riding and because we felt that we could use our vast experience of building custom bikes with individually-tailored geometry to bring something new and better to the gravel sector. We understand that every rider wants confident handling, and that the geometry required to deliver that feeling varies from one individual to the next.

Ride it your way – the broadest build options
The Assassin gives you freedom of choice to build your bike to suit your riding and terrain:
47mm tire clearance in both 700c and 650b
1x or 2x, up to 50/34
Dropper post and Di2 jointly compatible Front dynamo internal routing
Fender and rack mounts
4 portal bosses + 2 bottles
Mild, Wild or custom paint

Flip chips explained
The Assassin’s flip chips are the keys to your personal confidence. Rider preferences on bike handling vary and gravel trails vary even more, so one size does not fit all. The solution is our usage-tailored handling, giving you confidence whether you want to race, explore, tour or shred. This is how we use our custom-building experience of creating bespoke geometry to make a better factory bike.

At the rear, two chips offer three axle positions, adjusting the effective chainstay length and overall wheelbase in 5 mm increments. Go shorter for more agility, go longer for extra stability, or take the middle option if you want a balance of each.

At the front, the chips offer two positions, High and Low. The ‘Low’ position gives a longer trail and slacker head tube angle, suited to more aggressive riding on more challenging terrain; the ‘High’ position creates shorter trail and a steeper head angle, ideal for gravel races or rides on back roads and less rough terrain.

• Long and Low = rugged terrain, more MTB feel, likely on ≥45mm+ tires
• Short and High = milder gravel, more road bike feel, likely on ≤38mm tires
• Experiment to find the combination that suits you and your riding best

The Assassin’s flip chips allow you to tailor the handling to suit your riding. They are not designed to offset a switch between 700c and 650b tires because that can only be done for specific tires as outer diameters vary with tire size. What’s more, we firmly believe that a rider on 700x35mm tires will be on different terrain and want different handling characteristics to a rider on 650x47mm tires.

And if you just want to stick with one setting, there’s no cost or weight penalty.

The gravel spectrum
Gravel is a broad segment, so we designed the Assassin to cover more of the spectrum than any other bike on sale.

At one end, you have gravel racing and riders exploring back roads and light-duty gravel roads, both wanting something close to a road bike in handling, weight and responsiveness. At the other end, you have riders taking on really tough terrain and wanting a robust bike with the stability to tackle steep, rough trails and singletrack. In between those extremes lie every type of gravel road found the world over, the range of riders discovering them, and the bikepackers setting out to ride them all.

The gravel spectrum is best exemplified by tire choice: 700c x 35mm slicks at one end, 650b x 47mm at the other. The terrain on which those extremes of tire choice are ridden demand different geometry. Whereas some bikes seek to maintain a constant trail figure when switching from 700c to 650b wheels, that’s the exact opposite to our goal. The Assassin’s flip chips allow you to tailor the geometry and handling to how and where you ride.