November 19, 2024 - Get out of the saddle. Pedal as hard as you can. Don’t look back. This thing is fast, we know. Let your instincts kick in and…. Boom! You’ve unlocked all that potential. As easy as. The new Mondraker Arid Carbon is the perfect ride whatever your idea of gravel. We’ve created something that moves, something truly authentic. Our way.

Arid Carbon: The Ultra Gravel Bike
Riding a bike in an arid environment, regardless of terrain, can be seriously demanding. Bike and rider alike may be pushed to their very limits. The extremes of temperature, poor grip, and general exposure make it a significant challenge… yet thankfully it’s often incredibly exhilarating too.

Here at Mondraker we thrive on that sensation. We live and work in one of Europe’s most arid regions, surrounded by dry, rocky, loose terrain where grip is often non-existent. Those feelings, that experience, led us to create in perhaps the most appropriate place possible our best gravel bike imaginable: the new Mondraker Arid Carbon.

Expanding the Territory
Arid Carbon is our new gravel bike. A bike that’s here to expand our presence in the segment where the DUSTY e-Gravel bike has already carved its own niche. We’re simply, organically, growing the range, because at Mondraker gravel biking isn’t just the latest thing… it’s become an intrinsic part of our identity.

Arid Carbon, our first non-assist gravel bike, manages to borrow some design cues from its e-Bike cousin while managing to keep itself well out of the other’s shadow. In a segment made up of riders with very different ideas about just what makes a great gravel bike, we specifically designed Arid Carbon to be the mould breaker, the bike to bridge that gap between differing ideologies thanks to its enormous capacity for adaptation. Because when it comes down to it, gravel biking is simply a very personal discipline.

Riders have always adapted their bikes, based on many different factors, to be exactly what they want them to be. So that’s why, when designing the Arid Carbon, we kept in mind just how diverse our field of riders would be and likewise how varied their take on ‘gravel’ would be. We specifically designed Arid Carbon to be able to adapt to just about anyone.

The Devil’s in the Detail
We’ve really gone to town on the details. Arid Carbon has HHG internal cable guides to facilitate maintenance and keep the frame lines really clean, especially under the stem, and the UDH derailleur hanger provides the stiffness and precision you need when pedalling hard over rough terrain. 1x drivetrain only, the bottom bracket is threaded for maximum stiffness, and once again, ease of maintenance.

The frame and fork combined provide mounting points for up to six water-bottles, and generous frame and fork dimensions take up to 50mm wide tyres with clearance to spare. The bike also features the all-new Mondraker ‘Carry-On’ system.

Carry-on: Next Gen Hand Luggage
Riding the Arid Carbon is like writing your own screenplay. Racing, adventure, singletrack or the daily commute, Arid Carbon is going to be there with you whatever the script; and when you need to take something with you you’ve got internal frame storage for the first time ever on a Mondraker. Whether it be basic tools, a bite to eat, documents or clothing, Mondraker’s ‘Carry-On’ system has you covered. Accessible through a watertight, dustproof cover on the downtube, you can carry the essentials safely, securely and quietly.

Three custom-made, internal yet easily accessible, double-lapped zipper bags keep things neat and tidy and mean that you won’t need additional packs or accessories for those shorter trips. One of the bags is specifically designed to carry a spare tube and tyre levers. Another for a mini-pump or CO2 cannisters, and the third for a multitool… or… you can use them for whatever fits your needs better on the day.

Key Points
• StealthAirCarbonframe
• StealthAirCarbonfork
• Carry-Onframestorage
• Under-stemHHGinternalcableguides • 1xdrivetrainonly
• UDHderailleurhanger
• BBT47bottombracket
• Upto50ctyreclearance
• 12x142mmrearaxle
• FlatMountbrakecallipermountsfrontandback
• Multiplewaterbottlemounts
• 5differentsizes

Better Fit, Better Geometry
A key feature of Arid Carbon is the adoption of 5 different sizes, the better to cover all types of rider. The new ML size goes beyond just adding a size to the traditional S, M, L, XL lineup; rather it reduces the jump between sizes while also making the smallest model a little less rangy and the largest a little more spacious. As a result, we’ve not only made Arid Carbon fit riders on the extremes better than ever before, we’ve also made fine tuning your fit better for everyone by having smaller steps between sizes. Arid Carbon is the latest Mondraker to take this step, after the recently released SLY and the latest version of the Crafty Carbon.

In fitting with the Mondraker badge on the headtube, Arid Carbon adopts innovative geometry stats with generous reach figures and stem lengths of between 60mm and 90mm depending on frame size, a 70° head angle and 425mm chainstays. The riding position is extremely comfortable and confidence inspiring thanks in part to the new ONOFF handlebar range, the result of intensive development over the last 12 months. Strength, posture and handling have all been refined.

Putting Down the Power
The pleasure of driving yourself forward. Nothing but your legs, your strength, your endurance. At a time when e-Bikes seem to be taking over, bikes like Arid Carbon take us back to the origins of cycling, of unadulterated fun and freedom to roam, detached from complications and trouble.

Arid Carbon is unmistakeably a Mondraker in every way, yet with its own character thanks in part to its distinctive and technologically advanced rear triangle design. Likewise, more than 10 years of development of Forward Ge- ometry shine through when riding the Arid Carbon; that trademark blend of aggressiveness, control and fun that mark every Mondraker regardless of discipline.

Arid Carbon is an origins bike, a return to pure cycling, yet offers all the advantages of high-tech frame construction and quality components. Arid Carbon plants Mondraker firmly in the world of gravel riding.

Four Builds – All Fast
Arid Carbonis available in four different builds: Arid Carbon, Arid Carbon R, Arid Carbon RR, and the range-topping Arid Carbon RR SL which is also available as a frame only option. All four builds share the same Stealth Air Carbon frame and fork, and the same 400mm long, 27.2mm diameter Onoff S9 seatpost. Whichever build you go for you’ll be on a heater from the very first time you turn a crank.

Canadian SRPs
Arid Carbon RR SL $12,999.00
Arid Carbon RR $8,999.00
Arid Carbon R $6,999.00
Arid Carbon $4,999.00
Frameset Arid Carbon RR SL $2,799.00

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