ADV
Adventure is in its name. The Boardman ADV is designed around versatility. It is equally at home exploring new trails and gravel roads, or covering long distances while carrying all your gear. With both the carbon and alloy ranges, you can keep exploring or pin a number on for your next gravel event.
Carbon Frame
The lightweight heart of the carbon ADV is its 990-gram C10 carbon frame and 420-gram carbon fork. Its neutral 71.5-degree head angle delivers confident handling on and off road. In addition to its low weight and reassuring handling characteristics, the frame boasts hidden mounts for full-length mudguards, dropper post routing, and bottle and storage fixings on the top tube, seat tube, and downtube.
Tubeless Ready
The ADV range features Goodyear's 40mm tubeless and gravel-specific Connector tyres. Designed as a fast-rolling all-terrain tyre, its versatile tread pattern with tightly-spaced centre knobs and aggressive side knobs delivers straight-line momentum whilst retaining grip demands when the direction changes or the route gets technical.
Flared Handlebars
Flared alloy handlebars are featured across the board with the ADV range. The flare allows for an optimal ergonomic hand position on the hoods, more control whilst in the drops making for a comfortable and controlled ride on and off-road. This flare also allows more frontal space to carry additional luggage, such as bar bags.
I've done a couple of hundred miles on my ADV 9. 2 Carbon (size large) so far. It replaces a Giant Revolt Advanced 2. Pros: Feels quite light and responsive at low to medium speeds. Assured handling. SRAM groupset is simply excellent. Feels very well built (vs my Giant). Looks great. Very comfortable on regular gravel or rubbish roads. Tubeless-ready (comes with tubes, though). Loads of useful mounting points for bikepacking, bottles, mud guards etc. Cons: Wheels are robust, but increadibly heavy. Handlebar won't be for everyone - deep drop and not much flare. 40t chainring is a tad small for stronger riders. Not suitable for wider tyres if that's your thing. I've really enjoyed it so far. Feels way better built and more robust than my Giant, which was always a bit flaky. The groupset is probably the highlight here, though the rest of the bike definitely allows you to make the most of it. The handling is the right side of lively despite the relatively long wheelbase. The geo is closer to a road bike than my Giant, which I prefer, although the 40t chainring is a limiting factor if you're used to riding at higher speeds (20mph+) when using it on the road or having more top end when descending. A 42 or 44t chainring would go some way to solving this without really losing much climbing capability. Overall, a lovely bike that does everything a gravel bike should, and does it very well.