This gravel bike has a dropper post and suspension fork

We take a look at the Saracen Levarg to see if it blurs the boundaries between gravel and XC

MTB or gravel bike? We're not so sure

Alex Evans

Published: January 8, 2019 at 9:10 am

Is the Levarg just a gravel bike or can it do more?

In September 2018 we first saw the Saracen Levarg — which is ‘gravel’ backwards, for those wondering — and thought it looked fairly tasty.

Featuring a Fox 32 AX Step Cast fork with 40mm of travel, a 120mm dropper seatpost, and suspiciously MTB-like geometry, we’ve asked the question: “how close is it to a mountain bike?”

Alex Evans

Senior technical editor

Alex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex then moved back to the UK and put his vast knowledge of mountain biking to good use by landing a job working for MBUK magazine as features editor. Since working for MBUK, Alex’s focus has moved to bike tech. He’s one of BikeRadar’s lead testers and knows how to push bikes and products to the limit, searching out the equipment that represents the best value for money. Alex is also a dedicated eMTB rider, and still dabbles in racing of a sort, doing his best to top the Strava leaderboard on the steepest, gnarliest and twistiest trails the Tweed Valley has to offer – just for fun, of course. Alex is also a regular on the BikeRadar YouTube channel and BikeRadar podcast.
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