3t Extrema Italia Rival/GX Eagle Transmission AXS
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Prices and stock checked Oct 22.
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The 3T Extrema Italia Rival/GX Eagle Transmission AXS Bike is 3T's most capable gravel platform — a bike that deliberately blurs the line between gravel and mountain biking by accepting that serious off-road riding requires serious tires. "Italia" is not a trim level; it means the frame is handcrafted at 3T's factory in Presezzo, Italy using a proprietary filament-winding and resin transfer molding process. The Sqaero frame architecture was developed specifically for aerodynamics around big knobby tires — producing roughly 7 watts of drag savings at 20 mph compared to round tube profiles, an engineering insight that only makes sense once you've accepted 50-plus millimeter gravel rubber as the starting point. At $9,999, the Extrema Italia arrives with 700x55mm Continental Terra Adventure tires mounted, a 3T Discus 45|40 LTD carbon wheelset on Carbon-Ti hubs, and a mixed SRAM drivetrain that pairs road-level shifter ergonomics with a 10-52T mountain cassette — 520% of total gear range on a drop-bar gravel bike.
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The frame is built through filament winding combined with RTM (Resin Transfer Molding): dry carbon filaments are wound around mandrels, then resin is injected under pressure rather than relying on pre-preg sheet layup. This process gives 3T superior control over fiber orientation throughout the tube walls and produces 50% less material waste than conventional pre-preg construction. The Sqaero tube shapes are the visual signature — a 50mm-wide downtube and 25mm seat tube with squared-off aerodynamic profiles engineered in a wind tunnel around oversized gravel tires rather than road-bike cross-sections. The geometry is built around 57mm tire clearance on 700c wheels, which covers everything from fast gravel racing to legitimate trail riding. Integrated downtube storage with a Fidlock mini-hook closure and a Missgrape neoprene internal bag holds a spare tube, multitool, and CO2 cartridge without adding a frame bag. The 3T Fango Extrema Integrale carbon fork (420g,…
