Argon 18 might not be a familiar name in the off-road world, but the Canadian brand has been making innovative and exciting bikes for road, track, and triathlon at the highest levels for years. The Dark Matter is their gravel offering and aims to follow the rest of their range to be one of the best gravel bikes. The Dark Matter has been around for a few years, and we rode it back in June 2023 for a first ride at the challenging FNLD GRVL event.
I've since been putting the miles in on my local Yorkshire trails, which sadly bear no resemblance to the dry and dusty trails we tested the Dark Matter on in Finland but still provide a suitably wide range of terrain to test any bike. Graham Cottingham found the bike to be fun and engaging on his first ride review, so how did it fare away from a race scenario?
