Germany’s Cube, best known for its well-priced bikes that are still sold through real bricks-and-mortar shops, has been a little quiet of late. Its range-topping Litenings were still impressive, but elsewhere things were starting to look a little staid. Well, Cube has got off to a flyer for 2016, redesigning its ever-popular Agree road bike and debuting the disc-specific Attain.
On-trend form and function
Its frame follows all the latest trends: an oversized head tube and down tube, beefy bottom bracket shell and chainstays, a narrowing top tube and slender seatstays joining the seat tube well below the level of the top tube, a feature becoming ever-more popular on modern comfort-orientated bikes. The primer-grey (is this 2016’s ‘in’ colour?) and fluoro orange finish split opinions, but many loved the contrast of understated and hi-vis, and it makes a change from the usual swathes of all-black carbon.
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The head and down tubes are burly specimens
Cube has certainly continued its knack of speccing a lot of bike for the money, here offering you full 105 and Shimano’s new BR-RS505 hydraulic brakes. Cube’s own-brand CPS parts are also a notch above that found on most similarly priced bikes, as they’ve been made in collaboration with Germany’s high-end component manufacturer Syntace.
The seatpost has a very neat clamping system, the stem is light with pressure evenly spread and the bar has Syntace’s rearward-six-degree sweep, which is perfect if you want to cruise on the tops. Syntace X12 thru-axles also feature at both ends. It was one of the first to adopt the 12mm diameter axle standard, claiming it offers a better stiffness-to-weight ratio than either 10 or 15mm offerings.
Intoxicating ride
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