2019 CUBE AXIAL WS GTC SL Disc Ultegra - Women

Light, fast and comfortable!

Want to keep chipping away at your personal best? Allow CUBE to introduce the Axial GTC SL Disc - the ideal bike for riders who appreciate how great equipment can help bring out her best performance. Built around are Axial GTC frame's renowned handling and long distance performance, CUBE added a selection of the best components to ensure that you're always riding at your peak. Smooth, wide-ranging Shimano Ultegra gears, powerful Shimano 105 hydraulic disc brakes for all-weather performance - with STI levers specially shaped for smaller hands - and light, stiff and strong Fulcrum Racing 66 wheels all combine to extract the very best from the high tech carbon frame - and, more importantly, from you. Light, fast and comfortable: the Axial GTC is all three of these, perfected. 

The Axial GTC SL's carbon frame, precision-manufactured using CUBE'S Twin Mold technology, has a perfect stiffness-to-weight ratio designed specifically to maximize your performance. Oversized main frame tubes join with an extra large cross-section at the head tube for superb steering precision. They also provide an exceptionally rigid backbone for the rest of the frame and this, combined with 12 mm thru-axles front and rear, delivers instantaneous pedalling response. Thin seatstays and vibration-absorbing carbon fork blades add a noticeable dose of extra comfort in spite of this efficiency, keeping you comfortable even for the long haul. And, although CUBE have included the awesome modulation and stopping power of disc brakes, they made sure to integrate them into the frame's elegant lines using the Flat Mount standard and some clever design from CUBE's engineering team. Add the performance-orientated geometry with a stretched, efficient ride position and you have everything you need to realise your full potential. 

• Gran Turismo Composite - In designing the GTC carbon fiber frames, safety and comfort are the main factors. CUBE use high modulus fibers for the parts which are stressed the most ?the head tube, the seat tube top and the bottom bracket area. That is why the frame still offers flex and comfort resulting from the flexible tubes. CUBE's special production process with inner and outer molding forms ensure that the minimum of required material is used, reducing overall weight even with complex frame designs. All GTC frames have of course passed DIN - Plus testing.
• Twin Mold Technology - The Twin Mold technique uses re-usable cores during the lay-up process to ensure precision frame moulding. Special inserts guarantee optimum ply orientation during the production process to add extra strength at frame points subject to higher loads. This improves the safety of the product and delivers outstanding stiffness characteristics.
• Women's Series - CUBE know that women are different from men; that much is obvious. That’s why they developed the range of Women's Series bikes specifically for women. But it's not only the color of the bikes that is adapted to women - mostly, the geometry is specifically developed for the female anatomy. With the Women's Series, women can get exactly what they want: fitness, relaxed rides or trail adventures.
• Integrated Cable Routing - Internally routed cables offer many advantages. Cables are protected from dirt for longer life, weight is saved thanks to the absence of external housing and the bike has a clean, sleek appearance.
• Tapered Steerer - This steerer tube design is stiffer than a conventional straight steerer and yields a more secure ride feel even in difficult terrain. Minimal flex at the front of the frame means the greatest possible steering precision. With the larger steerer, the forks become more rigid. At the same time weight is saved due to the absence of bearing shells as the lower bearing is fully integrated into the headtube. On all of CUBE's carbon models the upper bearing shells are also directly in the frame, so that once more a few grams are saved and the energy transfer is very direct.
• Press Fit BB - With Press Fit bearings, the bottom bracket bearings are pressed directly into the frame and not screwed in as usual. This gives a wider bottom bracket shell and allows them to build a wider downtube and more broadly-spaced chainstays. Every millimeter of additional width gives a significant improvement in lateral stiffness.
• Wet Paint Surface - On polished, brushed aluminium and all HPC frames, the logos and graphics are applied in multi-layer wet paint. CUBE use this surface treatment technology mainly to save weight.

Fact Sheet of CUBE AXIAL WS GTC SL Disc Ultegra - Women