Highlighting their new painted-in-Italy WPNT colours impressed by traditional automobile paintjobs, 3T virtually glossed over a extremely massive replace to their core RaceMax gravel bike… an Integrale shift lastly offers the bike absolutely inner cable routing. Certain, 3T already adopted absolutely inner routing on their aero street bike a few years in the past, after which incrementally on every of their premium made-in-Italy Italia fashions since. However now, the extra reasonably priced customary 3T RaceMax WPNT Integrale drops the annoying toptube routing port. And it’s additionally accessible as a frameset for 1/2 the price of the Italia version!
3T RaceMax WPNT Integrale carbon gravel bike is built-in!
For 4 years, the 3T RaceMax has been 3T’s best-selling gravel bike – aerodynamic, versatile with sooner and broad 700c tires and even wider 650b tires for greater adventures, and loads of mounts for bikepacking and journey. Now, 3T offers the RaceMax a “recent coat of paint” by including it to their new WPNT program, with 5 particular version metallic & iridescent colours stated to be impressed by traditional automobiles. That “We Paint” label that means that 3T paints the bikes themselves in Italy, letting them run extra particular version colours.
On the identical time, the 3T RaceMax WPNT additionally turns into “Integrale” like their top-tier made-in-Italy Italia version carbon street & gravel bikes…
Why does an built-in gravel bike replace matter?
The 3T Exploro has been round as an aero gravel bike since 2016. And, I’ve ridden each era since – a minimum of 5 or 6 completely different Exploros with one inelegant cable routing answer. The RaceMax platform itself, has been round for 4 years, now. I reviewed this newest bike again in the summertime of 2020. And all-in-all I feel it’s nonetheless probably the greatest, most versatile however nonetheless race-ready gravel bikes on the market. Properly, aside from one main nit I needed to choose…
The cable routing into the body simply behind the headset was merely dangerous. All the time in the best way, whether or not mounting gadgets over the stem or utilizing any toptube bag. It was annoying sufficient that I wasn’t bothered when it was time to return that check bike to 3T.
And I used to be genuinely psyched once I first rode the made-in-Italy Exploro Extrema Italia which mounted the interior cable routing situation (even when the toptube bolts didn’t precisely appear to be within the appropriate spot).
Certain, it meant that the brand new made-in-Italy bikes had been solely suitable with digital shift drivetrains. And so they had been much more costly. However, it was so a lot better an answer that this was a gravel bike I wish to maintain round for a bit longer.
Now, that’s now not holding it again, I can say this made-in-Taiwan RaceMax is without doubt one of the greatest all-rounder gravel bikes on the market. It does every little thing the RaceMax Italia does – the identical shaping, tire sizes, element requirements, and geometry – simply with a frameset that prices half as a lot constructed with pre-preg carbon as an alternative of filament winding.
2025 3T RaceMax WPNT Integrale – Pricing, choices & availability
The newly built-in RaceMax WPNT is now accessible instantly from 3T in 5 particular version paint colours: Camo grey, Indaco blue, Mara blue, Malva purple & Avorio off-white. And it’s provided each as a 2975€ frameset, or a whole bike construct for 6150€ with a brand new GRX Di2 2x construct and aero carbon 3T Discus 40/30 wheels. Both means that includes the 3T Fango RaceMax Integrale compact crown fork & Apto Integrale Stealth stem to route all cables (digital shift solely) by the headet.
Each new iterations of the brand new 3T RaceMax WPNT Integrale are painted and built-to-order, with a 6-8 week lead time.
