A Suspend-Your-Judgement Mosaic GT-1 45

If you’re still here, it means you didn’t hurl your device across the room in disgust at this bike’s front fork. Pro gravel racing is getting gnarly, and where the rubber meets the season’s rockier trails, the top dogs are already testing suspension to see how extra cush helps them stay in play. Grey-beard MTBers who remember when suspension first arrived for the fat tire crowd may already know how this trend plays out. What do they say about new things and natural nuclear reactors?

This build centers around Mosaic’s handmade titanium GT-1 45 frameset. It sports an adapted geometry to accept the RockShox Rudy suspension fork, which prevents it from compromising the celebrated ride Mosaic’s flagship gravel bike is known for.

There are many eye-popping examples of Mosaic’s painting prowess on the internet, but for this build, we went for a pared-down Midnight Navy and colour-matched the fork and (Enve) stem to match the frame, as well as the hubs, bottom bracket, and headset from Chris King.

For those following such trends, this was one of our first builds with SRAM’s Universal Derailleur Hanger (UDH). It won’t be the last.