The what, now? You learn that proper. REEB Cycles is bringing again The Sam’s Pants. This awkwardly named gravel bike was launched again in 2012, revised in 2020, and quickly discontinued till this restricted launch.
The Sam’s Pants is alleged to be an amazing bike for gravel, bikepacking, journey, or your every day commute. It’s handcrafted within the USA with fashionable geometry, double and triple-butted Columbus Zona tubing, and now, it’s additionally UDH suitable.
Interested in that title? “We constructed our first gravel bike over 13 years in the past,” mentioned Tim Moore, REEB Cycles Gross sales Director. “On the time, nobody at REEB was positive about drop-bar bikes or skinny denims, in order that they named the brand new bike after a neighborhood store child, Sam, who launched everybody to the latter, and The Sam’s Pants was born. Whereas we’re nonetheless uncertain about skin-tight denim, one factor we’ve discovered over time is that it’s exhausting to beat the sense of journey discovered behind the handlebars of a gravel bike.”
That is the beginning of REEB Cycles’ fifteenth 12 months. The restricted launch of the revised 2025 The Sam’s Pants is a name again to REEB’s heritage of crafting metal bikes with easy, clear strains.
The Sam’s Pants Versatility
The Sam’s Pants is flexible sufficient that it could possibly go from working errands round city to getting a podium spot with Joe Grant on the Colorado Path Race. It sports activities sufficient tire clearance to suit a 54mm tire, and there’s a 3rd set of bottle bosses on the downtube and a giant entrance triangle for body baggage.
REEB additionally slackened out the headtube angle whereas rising attain and shortening the chainstays, making The Sam’s Pants very succesful. REEB additionally says that the light-weight metal body was particularly designed for lengthy days on blended terrain. “Similar to Sam’s pants, this design is tight.”
Sam’s Pants Geometry
2025 Sam’s Pants Handcrafted Highlights
Retail: $2,499 frameset (w/ Hellbender 70 headset & Lilith Hiili carbon fork)
Columbus triple-/double-butted 25CroMo seamless alloy tubeset
420mm axle-to-crown to accommodate suspension forks
Three water bottle mounts (two contained in the entrance triangle, one below the downtube)
44mm head tube
Clearance for 29″ x 2.2″ tires
68mm huge English (BSA) threaded BB shell
142x12mm rear spacing
SRAM UDH hanger
27.2mm ø seat put up
Flat-mount disc brake (140mm customary)
Exterior cable routing
The Sam’s Pants would be the excellent bike to get out and unfold your wings. The framesets can be found now for pre-order with a July 2025 supply. There will probably be three construct kits out there, in six inventory colours, and 5 sizes (XS, S, M, L, XL).
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