The Cube Agree has long been a well-loved bike here at BikeRadar, with one of our tech writers even buying one after testing it a few years back.
More recently though the Agree started to show its age, for the first time being outclassed by its rivals in all but value. Thankfully the designers at Cube seem to have realized this, with the new Agree design being as far removed from the previous round-tubed standard road bike as its possible to go.
The new high-end Agree C:62 SLT Disc, which made it onto the ’superbikes’ longlist in our sister title Cycling Plus’s recent Bike of the Year 2016 shootout, shares some design cues (and a colour scheme) with the affordable Attain GTC Pro, which impressed us in the budget category of the awards.
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Angular aesthetic hides advanced carbon tech
The Agree features an angular tube shaped twin-mould technology carbon frameset. The twin-moulding system is a complex method of manufacturing carbon that does away with foam cores or air-filled bags to handle internal forming (classic ways to construct carbon) and instead uses highly expensive internal mould tools.
Tube profiles are angular; twin-moulding techniques are used for a better stiffness-to-weight ratio
Appetite for acceleration
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