This innovation has been made possible thanks to this season’s new directive from the UCI that relaxed the 3:1 rule previously governing aero tube profiles, and is said to give a 0.5 watt improvement when travelling at 40km/h. Talk about ‘marginal gains’.

The forks and smoothed rear dropouts feature DT Swiss’ well-regarded RWS thru-axle standard, while the lack of rim brake calipers literally opens up the possibility of running 30c tyres (it’ll come fitted with 28c rubber as standard), which puts the Foil in gravel bike-worrying territory, while potentially making aero bike performance the most comfortable it’s ever been.

Updated Addict range

Eurobike has also given us the chance to have a look at the new Addict range, headlined by the Addict RC Disc.

‘RC’ stands for Race Concept, while there’s a plain Addict that replaces the Solace and CR1 endurance bikes in the range, and ‘Gravel’ and ‘CX’ versions that cater for those sectors of the market.

The geometries are different, with the plain Addict featuring an 8mm shorter reach and 23mm stack height bump over the racy RC in a medium size frame, while the actual construction features just three pieces, instead of the more expensive seven-piece construction in the RC.

Nevertheless, the frame (regardless of whether you go for the rim or disc brake version) is in the sub-1kg category.

However, the Addict RC frame is impressive in that it’s just 60g heavier per frame over the HMX rim brake version while it, like the Foil Disc, features 12mm thru-axles and the ‘2in1’ compatible cable routing.