Full-suspension gravel was the mash-up trend of 2025, with Trek's out-there CheckOUT pushing the limits established by BMC's URS LT, Cannondale's Topstone and Lee Cougan's Super Innova Gravel. Now, for 2026, Salsa has tested the boundaries again not only with more suspension travel, but with the added dimension of electric assistance. Salsa certainly has form when it comes to genre mash-ups, and it will raise eyebrows again with the new Salsa Wanderosa an electric/mountain/gravel bike with drop bars. The brand's back catalogue includes the 2008 Salsa Fargo a monster drop-bar mountain bike with myriad fixtures that defined bikepacking before it existed. Then there was the Blackborow, a mix of cargo bike and fat bike from 2016 that paved the way for the likes of the Tern Orox and Momentum PakYak. The Wanderosa has geometry optimised for gravel drop bars. Salsa Cycles Housed within the carbon frame is a mid-mount ebike motor and internal battery from Fazua. Delve further into the specifications and the Wanderosa looks to be a bike built to take on technical trails, alongside gravel. The Wanderosa combines Fazua's mid-mounted electric assist with 110mm of rear travel and a 120mm-travel fork. Salsa Cycles All models come with a 120mm-travel fork and a dropper post, not to mention 29er wheelsets shod with 2.2in (55.8mm) tyres. Read more: Best electric gravel bikes: 9 gravel ebikes rated and reviewed Full-suspension gravel geometry The Wanderosa's back end relies on flex in the stays rather than a heavy pivot. Salsa Cycles Salsa insists the Wanderosa isnt simply an electric mountain bike with drop bars, though its progressive geometry is designed around drop bars. That means a long reach combined with a short stem, a steep (75-degree) seat angle and a slack 65.3-degree head angle for stability. There's 120mm of travel at the front and 110mm at the rear from its 45mm-stroke shock. You can reduce the rear travel to 100mm by restricting the shock stroke to 40mm. The back end is supplemented by a flex-stay design in place of pivots. Salsa claims this helps reduce weight without compromising the suspension's effectiveness. SIZE XS S M L XL TOPTUBE LENGTH (EFF) 538.2 563.3 588.4 613.4 638.5 STANDOVER 725.6 749.2 776.3 803.1 829.7 STACK 595.4 599.9 618.1 636.3 654.5 REACH 380.3 404.1 424.4 444.6 464.9 HEADTUBE ANGLE 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 65.3 FORK AXLE-CROWN 531 531 531 531 531 HEADTUBE LENGTH 100 105 125 145 165 BB DROP 37.6 37.6 37.6 37.6 37.6 SEATTUBE ANGLE 75.1 75.1 75.1 75.1 75.1 SEATTUBE LENGTH 430 460 490 520 550 BB HEIGHT 332.4 332.4 332.4 332.4 332.4 CHAINSTAY 440.6 440.6 440.6 440.6 440.6 FORK OFFSET 44 44 44 44 44 WHEELBASE 1123.7 1149.7 1178.3 1206.8 1235.5 The Fazua system has a top-tube mounted display/controller. Salsa Cycles Full-power mid-motor assistance Bar-mounted blips control the motor power levels. Salsa Cycles The Wanderosa uses Fazuas latest Ride 60 drive unit. The mid-drive unit, as the name suggests, provides a claimed 60Nm of torque powered by an internal 480Wh battery. In the US, its a Class 3 unit, maxing out at 28mph/45kph, and in Canada it's Class 1 (20mph/32kph). The Wanderosa isn't available yet in Europe. Salsa says the lightweight 4.1kg system is custom-tuned for gravel riding, and it comes with Fazuas Road Control blips mounted under the bar tape for motor-mode switching without reaching for the top-tube mounted control unit. Salsa Wanderosa range details The range-topping Force X0 AXS bike. Salsa Cycles Topping out the range is the $12,999 Wanderosa Force XO AXS Transmission model. This Wanderosa comes with a drivetrain that blends SRAM's road and mountain bike parts. Here, it mixes a SRAM XO Transmission mountain bike derailleur, brakes and a carbon ebike-specific Praxis ETOR crankset with SRAM's Force levers. Up front is a 120mm RockShox SID Ultimate fork, with a SIDLuxe Ultimate shock at the rear. The high-grade spec is completed with a RockShox Reverb AXS wireless dropper and WTBs CZR Light i30 carbon wheelset shod with Teravail Camrock 29x2.2in tyres. The Salsa Wanderosa Rival GX AXS. Salsa Cycles Next in line is the Wanderosa Rival GX AXS at $9,999. This mixes a SRAM GX Eagle AXS rear derailleur, alloy Praxis ETOR crankset and SRAM Rival AXS shifters and brakes. Suspension is provided by a RockShox SID Select+ 3P 120mm-travel fork and SIDLuxe Select+ 3P rear shock. A TranzX dropper and WTB EZR i27 rims on DT Swiss 370 hubs, shod with Teravail Camrock 29x2.2in tyres complete the build. Entry into the Wanderosa range is via the $7,999 Wanderosa Apex Eagle. The drivetrain all comes from SRAM's mechanical Apex Eagle group. Praxis provides the ebike-specific alloy ETOR crankset. Suspension comes from a RockShox SID 2P fork up front and a SIDLuxe SEL+ 2P rear shock. It gets a TranzX dropper post and WTB ST i27 rims on a Shimano TC500 hub wheelset with the same Teravail Camrock 29x2.2in tyres as the pricier models. Pricing Salsa Wanderosa Apex Eagle: $7,999 / CA$10,249 Salsa Wanderosa Rival GX AXS: $9,999 / CA$12,799 Salsa Wanderosa Force XO AXS: $12,999 / N/A Canada