"To think that the Motley Crew of Icelanders I first witnessed running a guerrilla booth to exhibit their strange-looking fork at Eurobike would, five years later, go on to design my most laudable dual-purpose bike is the kind of stuff that keeps me wedded..."

"Winner of the 2018off-road.ccBenchmark Gravel Bike is the Lauf True Grit Race Edition, a lightweight speed machine with excellent off-road handling. It's a dedicated and entirely focused gravel racer with a unique fork. If you have been..."

93.2/100

"As such, Lauf’s geometry is excellent for all types of terrain. The bike navigates rough fire roads and high-speed corners with steady confidence. It’s also..."

4.5 out of 5!

"It is a low long bike. It has got a low BB, which helps with the stability. It has also got a slack head angle, which again helps with keeping the bike calm when you are hitting rough stuff relatively fast. Instead..."

"Lauf's True Grit shuns the usual versatility of most gravel bikes for a pin-sharp focus on racing, with their unique leaf-sprung fork taking centre stage on a bike that's quite unlike most others out there. As a complete package for going very quickly on..."

"The Lauf True Grit is certainly one of, if not the, fastest gravel bikes available. If your primary aim to complete a big mile challenge in record time, this is the bike for you, no contest."