UPDATED: Salsa Teases Full Suspension Gravel Bike!

Salsa is both actually dangerous at retaining secrets and techniques, or they’re actually hoping to generate a bit of hype round their upcoming pedal-assisted drop bar journey bike. It’s nearly positively the latter, on condition that they initially teased this bike again in September, and it has even had its personal touchdown web page on the Salsa web site ever since. Earlier right this moment, Salsa took it one step additional with a Fb submit that included the bike’s title, an image of somebody driving it, and a quick description.

From Salsa’s Fb Put up:

“Prepared for a peek behind the door?“

“That is Wanderosa, our gentle electrical full-suspension gravel bike, constructed to push boundaries so you possibly can take your Journey by Bike farther and sooner than you thought potential.“

“This genre-bending mix of full-suspension functionality, progressive drop-bar geometry, and motorized help is a radical journey expertise for many who need to begin from their entrance door, get bold with longer, rowdier routes, and rally their favourite backroads.“

“Wanderosa arrives January 2026“

Based mostly on the photograph and transient description, it seems that a lot of our hypothesis was right or no less than pretty shut. It’s clear that this can be a full-suspension bike that appears to blur the traces between gravel and mountain biking. It’s difficult to find out the efficiency tier of the SID fork from the photograph, however most fashions include both 110 or 120 mm of journey. Which leads us to guess that the rear finish will in all probability have someplace between 100 and 120 mm of journey as effectively. Most SID fashions promote a max tire width of 66 mm (~2.5″), and the body appears like it could clear a fairly huge tire, too.

The most important query that continues to be is what drive system will probably be offering the Wanderosa’s pedal help. The downtube doesn’t look like too cumbersome, however we will’t see the motor space effectively sufficient to establish a motor model. That stated, the TQ-HPR40 could be a logical selection, however that drive system doesn’t embrace a high tube built-in show — which is seen within the silhouette within the teaser shot beneath. This leads us to imagine that it’ll doubtlessly be powered by the compact Fazua Trip 60 drive system, however that’s simply our greatest guess. Seems like we’ll know extra in January. The opposite burning query that we need to ask is: the place’s the non-electric model?

From the Unique Put up:

Salsa Cycles has been placing numerous power into new bikes recently. Not too long ago, they’ve launched all the pieces from journey gravel ebikes, to a refreshed MTB lineup (which is surprisingly good).

Now, Salsa is teasing a brand new bike, and it’s certain to get some consideration. After posting a silhouette of the bike with the caption, “Curioser and curioser,” Salsa had added little or no element, solely stating that it’s coming in January 2026.

By the define, there are some things we all know for positive: it’s a full suspension bike, and it has dropbars and a dropper submit. The tires look like of MTB measurement, however with how large gravel tires are getting as of late, it may simply fall into the aggressive gravel or ATB class. Figuring out Salsa, there’s a very good probability this bike will work effectively for bikepacking and journey driving – what seems to be body bag mounts contained in the entrance triangle, and underneath the highest tube appear to help that principle. Replace: We now know, primarily based on the touchdown web page for the brand new bike on Salsa’s web site, that that is certainly a full suspension gravel bike!

At the moment, Salsa simply provides this as a teaser, “One other trade first from the oldsters who outlined the modern-day gravel bike. A few of what it’s; a few of you assume what it’s. It received’t be for everybody (then once more, what’s?), however it is going to redefine what’s potential. Full suspension gravel? Sure and…”

The opposite large query is whether or not this will probably be an ebike? There’s a darkish patch behind the pinnacle tube on the highest tube that appears prefer it may very well be a management panel for an ebike system. And the downtube definitely appears massive sufficient to accommodate a battery, maybe a smaller capability battery for a light-weight ebike system. However the hole spindle on the crank throws a wrench in that principle – all of the centerdrive ebike motors we all know of don’t have a hole spindle.

It’s potential it may nonetheless be an ebike with a rear hub motor, although. Or it may very well be simply {that a} crank with a hole spindle was used within the mockup, and the precise bike received’t have it. Or a brand new crank or motor or each?

Regardless, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see the place this goes!

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