BMC URS: Modern Gravel Bike With a Retro Twist

The all-new BMC URS takes everything that we (or at least our parents) loved about the early days of mountain biking and combines it with the hottest new school gravel tech. The bike is superbly fun and incredibly comfortable, but we'd be lying if we said there weren't a few features that, at least in our opinion, should have stayed in the '90s.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:30 MTT Suspension
03:52 Unique Frame Features
05:58 Gravel+ Geometry
06:57 High-End Components
09:35 How Does it Compare?
12:20 The Goat’s Take

#cycling #gravelbike

[kirkhjoejoe]

beautiful ride! I tested one and it felt like a dream both on road and on trail!

[staffanjerkeman]

You can change elastomeres to get less upward flex.

[drill_fiend]

It is good this d-seatpost is replaceable with 27.2 (for dropper post). That’s the Giant approach, and could be fixed if these posts have slippage problems like most of them do. But I suspect they are sticking with pressfit, aren’t they? I would trust Giant or Time to manufacture PF with tight tolerances, but how well does BMC do it? 3T had to ship their bikes with thread-together BBs because they kept having QA issues, and Trek and all went threaded.

[mafigueroa]

Can the Red Shift stem be swapped out with a traditional one?

[AvaValesToledano]

47mm of clearance is absurdly narrow on a "suspension" gravel bike designed to ride on rougher terrain. 50mm is the absolute minimum we should expect

[mellissanash]

I think it would be cool to compare this or the LT version to a gravel bike with 29x2.25-2.3 tires like the Sklar Super Something or Manzanita Whippet.

[nnii-rnco]

Since you were testing size L and found it comfortable, what is your height?

[endtimeslips]

this bike is heavy even without those damper tech

[ishamw]

Doesn’t that suspension weaken the chain stays

[mister_ray]

The Diverge is not UDH compatible. A deal killer.