Charge Plug gets aluminium overhaul for 2016

Charge Plug 1 - still a fixie but now aluminium

Charge’s Plug was the archetypal steel fixie, but for 2016 it’s reinvented itself in aluminium with a carbon fork.

And the tyre size increases from 28mm to a whopping 42mm. The Plug sprouted gears some years ago, but the new wheels and frame are a radical overhaul.

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Paul Norman

Paul started writing for Cycling Weekly in 2015, covering cycling tech, new bikes and product testing. Since then, he’s reviewed hundreds of bikes and thousands of other pieces of cycling equipment for the magazine and the Cycling Weekly website.

He’s been cycling for a lot longer than that though and his travels by bike have taken him all around Europe and to California. He’s been riding gravel since before gravel bikes existed too, riding a cyclocross bike through the Chilterns and along the South Downs.