I don’t either, but I also don’t think they would have done it if they were going to turn around and roll out a new bike 4 months later. I don’t know how much clearer I can be.
Edit: I’m just realizing the first time I made that point was a full year ago, so maybe we will see a new one this summer. I was thinking it was still just a few months back.
Isn’t a new diverge supposed to be coming soon? I think how they market that bike could give some indication on whether a new crux is coming soon. Will be interesting to see if they follow the trend of making a line between “adventure” and “race” or call the diverge a race bike.
I can see Specialized using the diverge for the big tire race bike and keeping the Crux as is.
I picked up the Crux Pro a couple of months ago. Given our Cdn winters, just got to start riding it a few weeks ago. I was just looking at the roval rapide cockpit yesterday, but decided to stay with original bars for this summer and think about the rapide for next year (tarrifs be damned).
Still remember when you could buy a s-works frameset for 3000€… It was the previous version (not more than maybe 43mm in clearance).
Merry times 
Not specifically a Crux question, but is there any double duty bike that can match the Crux for being a CX and gravel bike? I was looking at the new SuperX, which I know is being raced on the pro stage. I just don’t ride enough of either to justify separate CX and gravel bikes.
Ibis Hakka MX?
I vote diverge. Looks more chunky like a stigmata.
Was thinking the same. Excited either way!
I believe it is a Diverge after doing some more Instagram stalking. Can’t make out much but on Matt Beers IG story it looks like it will have futureshock and thus external cable routing. Honestly fine with me. Just curious to see geo, tire clearance (looks like at least 2.2), and weight.
Interesting choice if they end up keeping the futureshock. I would have thought they would have moved to a suspension corrected frame and offered some models with a suspension fork.
The Futureshock is of no interest to me, but brands do seem to know more than we do(sales figures). The big brands clearly see the “adventure” comfort type gravel bike as a must have. Trek will release their short travel gravel bike here before too long, and I expect the Diverge to be similar in terms of tire clearance and features: 2.0", UDH, Internal Storage and Internal Routing…
Yeah, I listened to a podcast today with Russell finsterwald and he mentioned suspension in a passing comment. Also, I thought it was interesting that he said he’d be racing a checkpoint (rather than checkmate) at almost all events this year. Talked about aero vs comfort while avoiding any direct talk about the limited tire clearance on the checkmate.
Can’t do internal routing with futureshock
What podcast!?
Groadio. It was from before Sea Otter, so a bit dated. I’ve been doing lots of long trips recently, running out of material…
A blessing. Or at least a good trade off for some front suspension. I just built up my Seigla last week, it was so nice to work on a bike without having to run brake hoses through the headset assembly. And also nice to have a head set cap that actually seals out water/grit from the headset bearings. I like integrated cables on some bikes, but they were stupid on my Checkpoint. It ran a normal stem, so you still had exposed cables, but they entered the headset right under the stem instead of going into the frame just below. Maybe saved a few inches of exposed cable? And the headset cap with the cable entry allowed water/grit to go right down into the headset. Resulting in having to re-do brake lines to replace the rusted bearings. Just dumb.
Unless you can totally hide the cables (like the new Allied Able), I just don’t get the point of routing cables through the headset. And I’m not saying I’d even want the Allied design, but I can at least see the point if they are actually hiding the cables.
Agree. I run a crux. I’ll be a little bummed if they go interval. I think best of both worlds is run under stem (rather than in) like cervelo does with a lot of their bikes.
