{"id":371285,"date":"2025-12-27T03:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371285\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:25:25","slug":"switchgrade-caters-to-xc-and-gravel-with-refined-pro-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/371285\/","title":{"rendered":"SwitchGrade caters to XC and gravel with refined Pro model"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver-based Aenomaly Constructs introduced the world to adjustable seat angles with its SwitchGrade<\/a>. With the Evo, it refined the concept. With the new SwitchGrade Pro, released today, the concept grows up and widely broadens its horizons.<\/p>\n

With the new Pro design, SwitchGrade offers features that allow it to perfectly suit gravel and marathon XC racers, without losing the appeal to the gravity crowd that first brought the Canadian invention success.<\/p>\n

\"Aenomaly<\/a>Intricately machined in B.C.
\nSwitchGrade Pro: Adjustable adjustments and angle limiter<\/p>\n

When Aenomally first released the SwitchGrade, it came with three title positions. It covered the basics: climb, neutral and descent. That was great for steep climbing, neutral\/rolling trails and descending. We were super impressed Aenomally made that possible and kind of blown away by how much of a difference that made, in some unexpected applications. We were also keen on the SwitchGrade\u2019s potential application in gravel, bikepacking, where it could provide advantages, just maybe on less steep gradients<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turns out we weren\u2019t the only ones who had that idea, and Aenomaly\u2019s done a truly impressive job of making the SwitchGrade pro adaptable enough to appeal to a wide variety of riders, in very specific ways, and potentially without much compromise at all.<\/p>\n

How? Through two very adaptable features. Loc8 and Climb-it Control.<\/p>\n

\"Aenomaly<\/a>SwitchGrade Pro comes in Silver or \u201cBlack Out\u201d black
\nLoc8: Fine tuning options<\/p>\n

The first new feature is Loc8. With this, Aenomaly adds up to eight different saddle angle options. Crucially, these come in much narrower, five-degree increments.<\/p>\n

This makes the SwitchGrade Pro much more appealing to riders who want the advantages of saddle angle adjustment on less steep gradients. With Loc8 you can lift the lever and move between any of the eight positions before locking back in. Long, mid-angle climb? One or two clicks should cover it. Brutally steep Whistler climbs on an eBike? Drop it all the way forward and start grinding.<\/p>\n

\"Aenomaly<\/a>An intricate but tough set of limiters lets riders personalise the SwitchGrade Pro to their needs.
\nDefine your useful range: Climb-it Control<\/p>\n

Not everyone needs, or wants eight different saddle angle options. With Climb-it Control, Aenomaly lets riders pick hard stops, fore and aft, to prevent over rotation.<\/p>\n

SwitchGrade Pro offers 35-degrees of saddle tilt range when its wide open. That\u2019s 20 degrees, or four clicks, forward from the mid-point. And 15-degrees (three clicks) back. Of course, you can also set the mid-point if you want more range in either direction.<\/p>\n

With Climb-it Control, though, you can limit those ranges independently. If you only want two, narrow options, say for gravel racing or an XC marathon, you can limit the SwitchGrade Pro to two positions: neutral and five degrees forward. Or neutral, five degrees for shallow climbs and 10 degrees for real steep grinds. Or\u2026 well, we\u2019re not going to run through all the options and reasons why you\u2019d choose them. You likely know what you want already. What\u2019s impressive is how much Aenomaly has managed to squeeze into such a compact, beautifully machined component. Which is made in B.C., by the way.<\/p>\n

\"Aenomaly<\/a>SwitchGrade was already wonderfully machined. Aenomaly has found ways to shave a significant percentage of weight off of it.
\nRefining the details<\/p>\n

In addition to the two major new features, Aenomaly continues to refine the details in SwitchGrade design and construction.<\/p>\n

That includes a narrower lever design that fits with more saddles. It also drops 23 grams (158 for the Evo to 145g for the Pro), which cuts the difference to standard seatpost hardware it replaces, through careful machining and chamfering of the SwitchGrade Pro body.<\/p>\n

Less noticeable details that make the Pro easier to install and use include machined overhangs to hold the cylinder nuts in place while installing a saddle, refined design to further increase compatibility across saddles and posts. Similarly, the shims that Aenomaly uses to make the SwitchGrade Pro broadly compatible are now tabbed to interface with the base in a way that makes installation easier. It\u2019s still compatible with both round and oval rails. Finally, to make servicing easier, Aenomaly\u2019s moved to an open (vs. closed) design so you can get dirt out when it creeps in.<\/p>\n

Changes that reflect rider\u2019s interests, by design<\/p>\n

All of these changes reflect a brand that is deeply connected to its customer base and very open to feedback in its product. That can be a rare quality in any brand, let alone a new one introducing an innovative new design.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put a lot into the SwitchGrade Pro, staying true to our goal of solving unique problems as simply as possible. Words make it sound easy but it\u2019s anything but, in fact the opposite\u2019s true \u2013 the simpler something seems, the harder it was to get there.\u00a0This took us 2 years of ideation, design, testing, prototyping, breaking stuff, more testing, and countless iterations and that\u2019s ok by us. Every tiny detail exists for a reason so we could deliver something that our customers asked for,\u201d Aenomaly Constructs Co-Founder Noel Dolotallas says about the development of the SwitchGrade Pro.<\/p>\n

\u201cHearing directly from our customers keeps the fuel burning. None of this exists without them. The DMs, comments, the encouragement \u2013 and the hard questions \u2013 are what keep us pushing forward. We take a lot of pride in building cool stuff we want to ride, and we take even more pride in building them with the people who ride them. Your belief in what we\u2019re doing means more than we can gather into words.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result is an innovative product that keeps getting better, by leaps and bounds, every time a new version is released. The SwitchGrade Pro is a bit more complicated with all those options so, if you just want the three-position (or two) version with big changes in angle, the SwitchGrade Evo is still up.<\/p>\n

Pricing and delivery: SwitchGrade Pro<\/p>\n

Aenomaly is starting the SwitchGrade Pro off in two colours: Blackout or Raw Origins. It is available for pre-order now<\/a>, shipping in January 2026. Since Aenomaly machines the component itself in B.C., you can expect them to keep that promised shipping schedule.<\/p>\n

SwitchGrade Pro is $292 here in Canada. it\u2019s $245 in U.S. dollars and, for our overseas friends, \u20ac201, \u00a3175 or 188 CHF. Not inexpensive, but worth it, in our opinion<\/a>, for the advantage this locally crafted component offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver-based Aenomaly Constructs introduced the world to adjustable seat angles with its SwitchGrade. With the Evo, it refined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[151657,158802,49,48,635,87288,158803,35620,82,151658,158804],"class_list":["post-371285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-aenomaly","tag-aenomaly-constructs","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-gravel-gear","tag-made-in-b-c","tag-mtb-gear","tag-sports","tag-switchgrade","tag-switchgrade-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}