Avona Callis First Ride Review: Stops in the laboratory quickly but on technical roads

Callis is a carbon gravel bike from the new German brand, Avon.

‘Only’ is another black, carbon, aero, aero-optimized German bicycle, Avona detail and special customization options Callis differentiates Callis from the crowd.

However, I am a delicate match for dry Tuscan Roads and Strade-Style style gravel, and my reservation on how to manage the English gravel in the stock.

A limited range can also make it difficult to find the driver’s optimal fit.

My test bike with SMano GRX DI2 RX825 is 5,999 euros.

Avona Callis Grx 2×12 Di2 Frameet

As we cover the launch of AVONA, Callis was developed by the former Arc8, BMC and Santa Cruz Bike designer, Jonas Müller.

AVONA, Callis is a classic mixture with a classic back toe, which has a classic mixture of a gravel race bike, a classic mixture of aerodynamically optimized pipe.

The clearance of the tires is estimated at a healthy 45 mm with a front derileur or 50 mm with 1x DriveTrain. It is not enough for the most special gravel bike tires, although 2.2in cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-cross-crossport MTB tires (like Dylan Johnson) are not possible.

There is also a more aerodynamically reserve and a low pipe storage hatch for tools.

The alleged framework will increase, depending on the size of 950 to 1,020 gr, ‘carbon in carbon in the carbon.

Everything considered everything, there is a smart-looking frame and nothing with clean lines.

It is fair to say a black and delicate brand, doubt, borders for light light and fading.

Thankfully, Avona offers more colorful, ‘Rosé / Blue’ to finish, plus @ Savethepostalservice to make a super-jazz, limited edition artist.

Avona Callis Grx 2×12 Di2 Geometry

Avona Callis is only in four sizes, etc. from s to XL.

My size l test bike reaches 593mm stack and 388mm, steep, 73.5 degree seat tube angle and 71 degrees head pipe angle with 388mm.

For comparison, Canyon Grail CFR (with a seven-seven size) dial 591mm, but 411 mm in an sized environment is unavailable.

Combined with an offset seat from scratch, Callis felt relatively short and long.

Bike matching is certainly a personal thing, so this is not necessarily negative. It is also fair to say that I have a lot of professional bicycles that make a lot of modern racing bikes feel a lot for the average horse, so it can be a good thing for some.

The limited range of range, more than other brands, because you find something better than other brands, because there are simply many options.

Avona continues to relieve this by offering specifications at the purchase point, but there is so much that you can do so much for a weak-fitting frame, so it’s not ideal.

Avona Callis Grx 2×12 DI2 Specification

Although the framework is heavy optimized, Avon says that the collection of performance earnings comes from their choices.

Although there are no choices for me, Avona said they would make their bikes, steering wheel, root length, crank length, crook length and crooked bikes.

Riders will also be able to choose special upgrades in additional costs.

Test Surface, Shimano’s latest 2x GRX DI2 RX825 groups, Sporting 48 / 31T chains and a stock with a stock with 11-34 casses behind.

AVONA, at the same time, sends each Calli with a ceramicSpeed ​​UFO waxed chain that works smooth and clean, with music for my ears.

Wheels and completion kit In 2019, a component brand created by Müller is also the courtesy of Faserwerk.

All impressive, high-level carbon items, although – like Frameset – the finer brand is extremely hidden.

Although Ace Up Avona’s goal, Hutchinson Caracal Race TLR 40. In the beginning, the French brand claimed that this is “the fastest gravel tire in the market, and claimed to be an independent test by the approval Benzinclerollingresistance.com he is pulling back.

After my heart, Müller, a cyclist, says this tire, and it was exploded at least in the laboratory – many roads are faster than bike tires.

The structure was completed with a repente quasar short nasal saddle.

Grx 2×12 graye ride grx grx

The bike connection spring 2025 road and gravel, I have tried AVONA calls in the city of Marittima, Italy.

The route was a hilly, 26 km loop, about half of the rides in Tarmac and the other half walking in the other half.

Along the way, Callis felt immediately open with the effectiveness of Hutchinson tires.

Measurement l test the driving position in my bike was short and steep, that is, the inevitably gives the wind more than a bike, it also encourages low and stretching.

This makes Canyon Ultimate CFR (I’m traveling on the same trip) even if it feels less efficiently than the road compared to the race bike, but also feels better than the road. In steep gravel climbing, for example, the steeper driving position promotes balanced weight distribution and effective power production.

Although the gravel ride was fair to say that I am new to the world, something I quickly learned, and there is more than critical tires and more likely to be learned in the laboratory.

Hutchinson tires, in this case, are fantastic on the less technical roads, but they are fantastic on less technical roads, but they are more strict.

Slick Central Section and Lower Profry Shoulder buttons Don’t just bite when things are empty.

Dick, rocky downs felt a little uncontrolled, although it is easy enough to ensure the rear tire slide from the saddle in steep grounds.

My experience of using Hutchinson’s Karakal tires in the UK (with a tougher coffee), with a tougher body), it proves that work is almost useless, when things are wet and / or mud.

It is fair to say that there are no conditions prepared by Caracal racing tires, and there is no such thing as the perfect gravel tires, but it is meaningless if there is no enough grip where you want to get rid.

Avona callis grx 2×12 di2 bottom line

If I have only a short time in Avona Callis, I walked away with a wide positive first impressions.

Although the tires I have chosen for a common gravel walk in the UK, Hutchinson tires are fast in the affordable area and the philosophy of finding non-use performance earnings in the details of the bicycle structure is one of I have full support.

However, the idea of ​​mixing almost smooth tires and other marginal gains with a framework with a slightly contradictory sense – the construction of a frame, “he said, but the construction position is less.

AVONA’s extensive customization options, of course, allow you to correct it to the extent, but there are restrictions on how much you can change the conformity of a frame without damaging other aspects of how a bike is.

If there were more sizes, if there were more sizes, it would not be a problem, because you can easily reach the ideal fit for the balance and component dimensions.

Although, a limited range, a range of adhesions can be compared to rival bikes for many riders.