Tifosi launches Cavazzo gravel bike

Tifosi has launched a new carbon-fibre gravel bike called the Cavazzo (£1,449.99) in its 2016 lineup, along with a new disc-equipped road bike called the Andare (£1,399.99).

If you’re not fully up to speed on the whole gravel thing, these are bikes designed for long-ride comfort, coming with disc brakes and clearance for wide tyres. Check out the road.cc buyer’s guide to gravel and adventure bikes. 

Tifosi says that the lower elements of the Cavazzo’s frame are designed to provide stiffness for the efficient transfer of power while the seatstays are narrow to add comfort and absorb road buzz (sorry the bike is difficult to see clearly in the above pic).

The large model comes with a 530mm seat tube, a 570mm top tube, and a 180mm head tube. The stack (vertical distance between the centre of the bottom bracket and the top of the head tube) is 599mm and the reach (the horizontal distance between those two points) is 387mm.

You get enough clearance for 35mm tyres although the DT Swiss R24 Spline Disc wheels are fitted with 30mm wide gravel-specific Schwalbe G-One Evos that you can run tubeless . If you want to fit full-length mudguards, the bike comes with inconspicuous eyelets and a little gizmo that sits between the seatstays because there’s no brake bridge.

Like the frame, the fork is made from unidirectional carbon-fibre and it takes bolt-thru wheel axles.

The Cavazzo is built up with a Shimano Tiagra 10-speed groupset with Tektro Lyra mechanical disc brakes.

The Andare disc-equipped road bike is a little cheaper at £1,399.99 (below is a rendering rather than a photograph). Like the Cavazzo, it is built around a unidirectional carbon-fibre frame and fork – both thru axle – but the geometry is totally different.

This time the large model comes with a 520mm seat tube, a 570mm top tube and a 160mm head tube. The stack is 561mm and the reach is 398mm, so you’ll be riding in a lower, more stretched out position on the Andare, as you’d expect.

Like the Cavazzo, the Andare is fitted with DT Swiss R24 Spline Disc wheels but the tyres fitted are much narrower this time – 25mm Schwalbe Ones.

The components are a mix of Shimano Tiagra and FSA.

For more info go to www.tifosicycles.co.uk.