Allied ABLE

LIGHTWEIGHT, YET BURLY. TIGHT, YET AGILE. POINT IN ANY DIRECTION AND GO.***

The ABLE begs to be ripped around on chunky gravel, hardpack dirt, fire roads, and singletrack. Purpose-built for wider tires, but with a shorter rear end for telepathic handling. The ABLE is a high-performance off-road machine that tilts more towards the “mountain skinny” side of the gravel segment. It prefers a big tire but keeps a short rear end - in fact, it’s the same as the ALLROAD at 420mm. This is achieved by the most striking feature on the bike - the elevated drive-side chainstay.

Getting a chainstay this short with high tire volume is a packaging exercise because the chainring, chainstay, and tire all compete for space behind the bottom bracket. On mountain bikes this problem is addressed by widening the bottom bracket -- but that affects Q factor in a negative way. When we made the decision to make the ABLE 1X-specific it opened the design envelope and ultimately led to the decision to elevate the chainstay. By moving it up and out of the way we could make it extremely wide resulting in an incredibly responsive ride.

While our award-winning ALLROAD is a Swiss Army knife for a majority of mixed surface riding, when the path gets rambunctious its road-racing genes might seem lacking. We found ourselves on occasion wanting a bike that was equally engineered but felt more at home on steeper, rockier, and more rugged terrain. It was from this desire that the ABLE was born. It’s lightweight, tight, durable, and agile. You can point it in any direction and go.

The ABLE begs to be ripped around on singletrack, fire roads, hardpack dirt, and chunky gravel. Proven on the brutal roads of the 2019 Dirty Kanza where ALLIED athletes Colin Strickland and Amity Rockwell piloted their ABLEs to overall victory.

ABLE is available in two stock colors -- Calvary Blue paint with Ecru decals, or Sport Grey paint with Mystique decals. Or you can personalize from an assortment of non-stock PPG paint and decal options -- including Gloss, Matte and Harlequin -- for a $500 upcharge. And if you have a color in mind you don't find there, contact us so we can discuss the possibilities.

****All Allied bikes are built to order. After an order is placed we will reach out to you about delivery time. Typical delivery is around 6 weeks after an order is placed. We have shown just a few of the many stock configurations available. There are three cockpit options in Easton, Easton Light, and Enve. There are also six wheel options that include: Industry Nine 1/1 GRCX, Industry Nine UL 250C, Easton E70 AX, Reynolds ATR, Reynolds Black Label ATR, and Enve AR 3.4 w/ Chris King hubs.

We can also build the bike exactly the way you want. Call, text, or email us for more information.