Vitus's Venon Evo is an all-road bike 'made in two flavours'

A 'do it all' machine that comes in a choice of road and gravel builds

- Luke Friend

Once a mere trend, road bikes with wider tyre clearances are now approaching industry standard. In large part this has happened due to the confluence of disc brakes and tubeless technology, with supporting data that wide tyres can be just as fast while delivering greater comfort, the icing on the cake. In creating the Venon EVO, Vitus has taken this accepted wisdom and run with it.

It's billed the all-road offering as a machine "built to blur the line between gravel and road". Available in a range of road (RS) and gravel (GR) builds, it utilises the same carbon frameset and then gets creative, aided in part by the generous 45mm tyre clearance.

If the Venon name sounds familiar, that's because it featured as part of the Vitus line-up until 2019, before being discontinued. Back then it was a traditional endurance road bike, so the new EVO isn't designed as a replacement. Rather, Vitus has created an entirely new platform that it says "lands somewhere in the middle" between a "full-bore road bike" and an "adventure gravel bike". All-road? Gravel racer? 'Groad' bike? You get the gist.