Diamondback Haanjo: stock monster cross bike!

WISH LIST: Diamondback Haanjo

Saw this puppy in Bicycling Magazine.  A true-blue monster cross bike, off-the-shelf, carbon-framed, and at a great price.

Writes bikerumor: Diamondback has just upped the game by taking their versatile alloy Haanjo gravel bike platform, which comes in drop and flat bar iterations, and giving it a shapely new carbon frame with a bad ass 27.5 x 2.1 option spec’d with a mountain taming 3×9 Shimano drivetrain. Don’t worry, 2×11 700c builds are also offered…but, just look at this thing! ...Thru axles front and rear, an XT cassette rear derailleur paired with Dura-Ace bar end shifters, Tektro brake levers, and Schwalbe tires round out the package for just $2,300 US.

I'd love to see some suspension in that fork, but at this price and with these specs, who can argue?  The 105 or "Comp" model is about the same price at $2100 US, kitted with the same wheels, but with Schwalbe G-One tires.  The trade-off with the 105 model is the crankset which, at 50/34 won't cut the climbs.  It's prettier.  I'd lean towards buying the Comp and swapping out the crankset, maybe for a triple (road).  The other option is the alloy Haanjo Comp.  Seems to be the same bike, but with an aluminum frameset.  Seen on sale for $700 US ($925 CAD) on eBay.



Writes Bikerumor:

At the top of the Haanjo Carbon lineup is the Trail model, which gets Shimano Ultegra derailleurs with Shimano’s non-series hydraulic disc brakes and levers. Those are paired with SRAM Rival wide axle cranks with 50/34 chainrings. It, along with the Haanjo Comp Carbon below, both use 700×40 Schwalbe G-One tires on HED Tomcat alloy wheels with 21mm inside width rims. Retail for the Trail model is $3,100.

Note the rounded seatstays and flattened seat tube, all designed to give the bike a bit of cush over the rough stuff.

Here's a company video to get you in the mood, albeit for adventure touring. 

For the price, you're getting such a great bike.  At this price--god forbid you find it on sale--you might have enough in the bank to buy a Lauf Grit fork.