3T Exploro Racemax Italia - Founder's Edition
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3T Exploro Racemax Italia - Founder's Edition
Product Details
The 3T Exploro Racemax Italia Founder's Edition frame is a premium high-performance gravel frame designed to combine aerodynamic efficiency, lightweight carbon construction, and Italian-inspired craftsmanship in a race-ready platform.
At its core, the frame uses a high-modulus carbon construction shaped with 3T’s signature truncated airfoil tube profiles to reduce drag while maintaining stiffness and responsiveness. This aerodynamic shaping helps improve efficiency across mixed terrain, delivering fast, stable performance on both gravel and tarmac.
Engineered for modern gravel racing, the Racemax Italia frame offers optimized stiffness-to-weight characteristics that support quick acceleration and confident handling. The geometry is designed to balance speed and control, making it equally capable on fast gravel sections and technical off-road terrain.
As a Founder's Edition, the frame features an exclusive Italian-inspired finish that reflects 3T’s heritage and limited-production status, giving it a distinctive visual identity while maintaining a performance-first design philosophy.
Built with versatility in mind, the frame supports a wide range of tire clearances and modern gravel setups, allowing riders to tailor their build for speed, endurance, or mixed-surface racing.
Key Features
- Aerodynamic Carbon Frame Design – Truncated airfoil tube shaping reduces drag and improves efficiency
- High-Modulus Carbon Construction – Lightweight, stiff frame engineered for performance and endurance balance
- Race-Optimized Gravel Geometry – Stable handling with responsive acceleration across mixed terrain
- Founder's Edition Finish – Exclusive Italian-inspired design with limited-production detailing
- Versatile Build Platform – Designed for modern gravel setups with wide tire clearance compatibility
| *Please note that bike specifications are subject to change without prior notice |
| PERFECT AERO CUTOUT | Close-fitting cutout to shield the rear wheel and achieve the most speed. |
| MIND THE GAP | No oversized gaps between front tire & downtube for better airflow transition and less turbulence. |
| HUGE CLEARANCE | The original Exploro set today’s standard for 54mm tire clearance. The RaceMax has 61mm! |
| 75MM DOWNTUBE BASE | Lower downtube aero profile is 75mm wide to fully shield water bottle. |
| 46MM DOWNTUBE NECK | Upper downtube necks down to 46mm to pick up the airflow coming off the front tire. |
| SIZE-SPECIFIC DOWNTUBE | Reduced depth on smaller sizes to keep frame compliant and keep space for bottles. |
| NARROW HEADTUBE | Headtube is sized like a road bike for a small 1 1/4” steerer for optimal aerodynamics. |
| BIG STEERER | Inside that narrow headtube is a big 1 1/2” steerer for best strength and stiffness. |
| MINMAX HEADSET | To fit this big steerer inside the narrow headtube, we use the custom MinMax headset. |
| MINIMALIST CROWN | Fork crown shapes haven\'t changed much since brakes were attached there. Now that we have disc brakes, we don’t need that bulk of material and can reshape the crown for better strength, stiffness and weight. Plus better aerodynamics. |
| PURE-ROAD FORK LENGTH | With the shorter crown, we can make our forks 25mm (1 inch) shorter than other gravel bikes. Exactly the same as a road fork. This offers better stiffness, lower weight, an easier steering geometry and better aerodynamics. |
| DOUBLE-DROP CHAINSTAYS | Dropping the drive-side chainstay improves tire & crank clearance. Dropping the other side as well creates a much more efficient structure behind the BB for higher stiffness & strength as well as lower weight. |
| DIRECT-MOUNT REAR BRAKE | Standard frames require an adaptor to use a 160mm brake rotor. We have integrated that into the frame, meaning you don’t need any extra pieces to attach the brake. |
| DIRECT-MOUNT FRONT BRAKE | Standard forks require a flip-flop adaptor to set the correct brake rotor size. Our direct-mount pre-sets the caliper for 160mm rotors without any extra pieces. |
| INTEGRATED FENDER MOUNTS | Invisible until you need them. Custom fenders coming soon. |
| CLEAN PERFORMANCE | Self-adjusting bolt angle for higher clamping forces with lower torque. |
| RITCHEY RAIL CLAMP | The new standard for gravel bikes, available for round and oval rails. |
| Size | XXS | 51 | 54 | 56 | 58 | 61 |
| Rider Height* (cm) | 142-157 | 153-167 | 164--177 | 175-185 | 183-196 | 192&Up |
| Rider Height* (inches) | 4’8”-5’2” | 5’0”-5’6” | 5’5”-5’10” | 5’9”-6’1” | 6’0”-6’5” | 6’3”&Up |
| Stack | 520 | 542 | 564 | 584 | 604 | 632 |
| Reach | 355 | 366 | 377 | 385 | 393 | 404 |
| Fork axle-crown | 370 | 370 | 370 | 370 | 370 | 370 |
| Head angle | 69.0 | 69.5 | 71.0 | 72.0 | 72.0 | 72.0 |
| BB drop | 79 | 79 | 77 | 77 | 75 | 75 |
| Seat angle | 74.5 | 74,0 | 73.5 | 73.0 | 72.5 | 72.5 |
| Seattube length | 436 | 463 | 490 | 518 | 545 | 572 |
| Toptube length | 506 | 526 | 546 | 566 | 586 | 606 |
| Wheelbase | 998 | 1008 | 1008 | 1014 | 1024 | 1044 |
| Front center | 596 | 606 | 606 | 611 | 621 | 641 |
| Rear center | 415 | 415 | 415 | 415 | 415 | 415 |