There have been many, many 32″ bikes on the 2026 version of MADE. So many who we’ll have a devoted roundup to the massive wheels coming quickly (which may must be break up into two elements!).
However few manufacturers appeared to totally embrace the idea like Uncommon Earth Cycle. All three of the Uncommon Earth present bikes had been constructed across the huge wheels and appear to have elevated Brian Corridor’s designs to a different degree with a unbelievable mix of recent design parts creatively interpreted in metal.
Uncommon Berd
When Berd Spokes approached Brian to create a show-stopping construct for his or her sales space, Brian thought a 32″ aero gravel race bike could be the proper topic. Why not?
After all, this wouldn’t be your common gravel race bike. From a distance, you may suppose this can be a composite body with loads of deep aero cross sections. But it surely’s truly all metal. Brian defined that to get this impact, he utilized skinny 4130 sheet metallic that’s then stretched round metal tubing like a skin-on-frame plane.
Brian additionally constructed his personal fork, as a result of as he factors out, the prevailing forks didn’t have the proper offset. That’s one thing we heard from quite a lot of builders who additionally gave credit score to Mosaic for introducing a fork with a extra 32″-friendly offset. On this case, Brian’s fork runs a 62mm offset.
Regardless of all that metal, the massive wheels and tires, pedals, bottles, instruments, and baggage, the Uncommon Chook felt lighter than anticipated. That weight is actually helped by particulars like what’s probably the lightest body bag on the earth – simply 17g. Made by San Util, the bag is definitely taped to the body across the edges to make sure it’s as aerodynamic as attainable.
Loopy Cloud Full Suspension
The Loopy Cloud full suspension bike takes a few of that skin-on-frame metal building and pairs it with a modern-looking suspension design and skinny tubing to make what appears to be like to be a light-weight full-suspension endurance bikepacking race bike. With ‘Doom 2026’ on the downtube, Brian raced this one on the 2026 version of the race in Scorching Springs, Arkansas.
It appears to be like critical, however perhaps not that critical because it does have a flask holder for one of many bottle cages in any case.
With most of Brian’s work in metal, the handlebar/stem combo is among the few locations the place titanium has been combined in. It appears to be like unbelievable, and possibly delivers glorious compliance for a one-piece bar/stem, which are typically on the inflexible aspect
Gunni Flyer Bikepacking Bike
Final up is the Gunni Flyer, a construct for Bikepacking.com editor Neil Beltchenko. Once more, no ready-made forks in the marketplace had the proper specs so Brian made a customized semi-truss fork with loads of mounts and what seems to be routing for a dynamo hub that pokes out slightly below the headset on the proper aspect of the fork.
Additional particulars embody an built-in portage deal with, Uncommon Earth’s signature twin prime tube with adjustable bag rails, and a rear brake caliper that’s tucked contained in the seat keep, presumably to maintain it away from baggage and equipment on the rear rack.
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