All City Bikes Space Horse Review

The all city sspacehorse is the company s flagship gravel bike featuring a double butted 4130 chromoly steel frame with classic lines and lugged details.

All city bikes space horse review.

This hand built steel all road bike from american brand all city has a great pedigree. At least so all city reckons. I think the space horse is a little lighter and the 650b version would be a blast. How did they make a good thing better.

The all city cycles space horse is another one of those one bike does it all types it s built to be a commuter a roadie a tourer and a singletrack slaying gravel bike. To keep matters simple there is just one spec level available from ison distribution but it is one that sports pretty good kit attached to the double butted 612 select cromoly steel tubing for a 1 600 price tag. The cosmic stallion a beast of burden or a thoroughbred. The space horse for instance comes in a size 46 with a 450mm seat tube which is a massive 110mm shorter than the smallest size of the popular surly long haul trucker.

It can do it all. If you are looking for more of an all road bike with occasional touring i would go space horse. The space horse is a bike that demands tough kit and thankfully it hasn t been short changed in this department. Two years ago it was one of the first all city frames to land in berlin at the gentle jaunt.

Similar to the 2021 gorilla monsoon we announced the 2021 all city spacehorse gets similar revisions with new dropouts and fork ends to. Road riding touring gravel commuting you name it. Very popular in the states they seem to be a little thin on the ground in the uk but this may simply be a function of the popularity of carbon or aluminium frames. Maybe 40lbs without it getting whippy but both are essentially more all road bikes than full blown touring bikes.

Guided by the knowledge and infinite patience of the staff at the shop i assembled a bike that manages to fulfill all roles from everyday supercommuter to indefinite all road touring rig and everything in between. If you plan to do more loaded touring i would go vaya. The sspacehorse has clearance for 700c x 45mm or 650b x 47mm tires and this year all city added stealth dynamo routing four point rack mounts and mounts on the downtube for third bottle cage. Its geometry mixes road and randonneur with a relatively short rear end and a lower than average bottom bracket for agile handling when.

The space horse geometry is reminiscent of salsa and surly frames a connection reinforced when you notice that the handlebars and stem are salsa brand. All city s space horse is their most popular bike for plenty of reasons.