KTM Revelator 5000

 

 

All the cables are routed internally, and if you want to upgrade to electric shifting the frame ready to accept the wires. From the bottom up there’s a massively oversized and re-enforced bottom bracket area carrying a Shimano BB72-41B Pressfit bottom bracket deep within. Move up the seat tube and there’s a braze-on style mount for the front mech, which is surprising as the seat tube is the only round tube in the frame. The slender seat stays join that seat tube below the top tube junction and there’s an extended seat mast above the flattened top tube.

 

 
Work your way back down again and you’ll reach the drop-outs, which are carbon on the non-drive side and a combination of carbon and bright red anodized aluminium on the drive-side. This allows the gear hanger, which can be vulnerable in a crash to be easily un-bolted and replaced. The aluminium hanger also doubles up as the stop for the gear cable where it emerges from its internal routing through the frame.

 

 
Adding to the neat touches on the Revelator’s frame are the inclusion in the graphics of the torque setting for the water bottle bolts. However, be aware that the bolts themselves use torx heads, and not the more common Allen heads. This means if you don’t have an up-to-date tool kit, you’ll need to buy some new tools, or get the shop you buy the bike from to fit your bottle cages for you.

 

Up at the front of the bike there’s a heavily reinforced head tube with a Ritchey Pro Logic Zero Drop-in RR headset nestled inside supporting the full carbon KTM F-7 fork, which tapers from 1-1/4in at the base of the steerer to 1-1/8in at the top.
Given that the Revelator 5000 sits in the middle of KTM’s carbon road bike line-up what you get for a groupset is a likewise middling option – Shimano’s Ultegra 6800.

 

 
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