Campagnolo unveil Ekar 1x13 lightweight gravel drivetrain

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Campagnolo have revealed all the details of their new 1x13 gravel-specific groupset named Ekar. It aims to meet the demands of gravel riding with a wide gear range, the simplicity of 1x and reliability without a weight penalty.

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[DieselnDust]

damnit just go MTB already will ya!

[Wayne pudding Mol]

Not one to criticize Campy but no 50 ?!I need my granny gears

But I’m clueless with ratios so I’m guessing with the 9 the too end is sorted and with a smaller chainring it would still get my fat@arse up mountains

Edited September 26, 2020 by Waynemol

[Tim Brink]

damnit just go MTB already will ya!

Remember the last time they tried that?

[Kom]

I dont even know where to start with my criticisms of this ...

 

Setting aside that the pricing will probably be astronomical and that the proprietary nature of campy in general will make this a really exclusive product. These are givens so ill try be realistic with my mockery:

1 - Honestly, a non direct mount crankset? The integrated spider looks horrible! (and probably a 91.2bcd to ensure no existing chainrings fit, and ill bet they reverse thread it or something silly to make it non-economical for 3rd parties to support it)

2 - 13 chainrings - wow! they got here first but, only a 44t big chain ring? Who needs 13 ratios to gravel grind, this is not road racing.

3 - The Cassette is Built on two blocks - SRAM mastered eagle with a single block cassette, meaning a far more solid construction (literally) no creeks. 

 

There is no doubt that this launch is targeted at the gravel crowd who are emerging from the exotic road crowd who want their exotic frames to be donned with exotic jewellery - i totally get it, for them SRAM or Shimano is just a non starter.

[DieselnDust]

I dont even know where to start with my criticisms of this ...

 

Setting aside that the pricing will probably be astronomical and that the proprietary nature of campy in general will make this a really exclusive product. These are givens so ill try be realistic with my mockery:

1 - Honestly, a non direct mount crankset? The integrated spider looks horrible! (and probably a 91.2bcd to ensure no existing chainrings fit, and ill bet they reverse thread it or something silly to make it non-economical for 3rd parties to support it)

2 - 13 chainrings - wow! they got here first but, only a 44t big chain ring? Who needs 13 ratios to gravel grind, this is not road racing.

3 - The Cassette is Built on two blocks - SRAM mastered eagle with a single block cassette, meaning a far more solid construction (literally) no creeks. 

 

There is no doubt that this launch is targeted at the gravel crowd who are emerging from the exotic road crowd who want their exotic frames to be donned with exotic jewellery - i totally get it, for them SRAM or Shimano is just a non starter.

 

 

 

True, but like ferrari in F1 the cycling word needs Campy to be relevant in all market segments

[DieselnDust]

Remember the last time they tried that?

 

 

 

ya well that was a dismal failure, not so much due to function,..........ok a lot as down to function, but its also twice the price of XTR and 10x more fragile

[MrJacques]

I'll wait for 14 speed

[ChrisF]

Okayyyyy, was I the only expecting a "600%" ratio from "13 gears" ..... 

 

 

Functionally this offers absolutely nothing that you cant get off the shelf now .... except super small gear ratios, for road use ....

 

 

 

But has been said above .... it is the "Farrari" of the cycling world, so sure there is already a long list of back orders.

[Skylark]

Anyone want to take a guess how much it will cost?

What does an equivalent existing Campy groupset cost?

[BaGearA]

Anyone want to take a guess how much it will cost?

What does an equivalent existing Campy groupset cost?

too much + R5000

[CAAD4]

Looking at the ratios, they understand that it's for roadies riding their bikes on undulating dirt roads, who know that they should use their mountain bikes for the very steep stuff... Erm Rad? Hat, coat, door...

[Wayne pudding Mol]

It’s a gravel gruppo, it’s apparently going to be priced similarly to GXR and sram equivalent, it’s not going to have all the usual proprietary normal campy issues but of course there will be some as with many brands - it’s called protecting the brand comrades

 

Remember it’s rivals only offer 11 gears for gravel on their mechanic gruppos

 

Ffs guys do some homework before slamming the best gruppo company in the known universe

 

Ok that may have been a bit much but unless you’ve had Campagnolo then perhaps reserve judgement

It’s a bit like a gold XX1 chain - seems expensive till 10 000kms down the line

Edited September 27, 2020 by Waynemol

[CAAD4]

It wears in....

[Christie]

Anyone want to take a guess how much it will cost?

 

1700€ for the full group. Edited September 27, 2020 by Christie

[Kom]

It’s a gravel gruppo, it’s apparently going to be priced similarly to GXR and sram equivalent, it’s not going to have all the usual proprietary normal campy issues but of course there will be some as with many brands - it’s called protecting the brand comrades

 

Remember it’s rivals only offer 11 gears for gravel on their mechanic gruppos

 

Ffs guys do some homework before slamming the best gruppo company in the known universe

 

Ok that may have been a bit much but unless you’ve had Campagnolo then perhaps reserve judgement

It’s a bit like a gold XX1 chain - seems expensive till 10 000kms down the line

Yoh dude it’s Sunday, no waging keyboard wars like that allowed!

 

Anyway it’s not like the exotics are dominating the Tour, o wait ...