The requirement of our customer, in the language used at that time, was to create a Cyclocross bike that was capable of touring.
It was important to him to have a lot of tire clearance and, of course, to be able to travel quickly and easily. Today we would say Gravelbike and the implementation of this customer request became the basis for our first Gravelbike in series, the s Gravel Allroad. At that time, Shimano did not have a groupset specifically for gravel bikes, so we decided on the best possible road bike group, the Dura-Ace.