Mason Resolution 2 SRAM Red eTap review

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Mason Resolution 2 adds new features to what was already an excellent bike. The ride quality just makes you want to keep riding and it’s got all the bolts and add-ons so that you could take on ultra-endurance and bike packing trips as well as just enjoying local rides, whatever the season. SRAM Red eTap makes for easy shifting and puts the bike’s weight at a competitive 8.5kg, good for a steel frame. The wider tyres and stable geometry mean that you’re not confined to riding roads either.

Reasons to buy
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    Quality do-it-all machine

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    Beautiful ride quality over mixed road surfaces

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    Great spec for mile munching rides

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    Light for a steel framed bike

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    Personal service from Mason team

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Reasons to avoid
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    More expensive than a mass market brand

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    Fabric saddle is a bit under padded

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Proving that life can exist without carbon, the Mason Resolution 2 showcases all that a modern steel bike can offer, with an excellent ride that just keeps you coming back for more. The Resolution 2 updates Mason’s ground breaking machine with all the elements we’ve now come to expect in an endurance bike, which weren’t around when the original Resolution was launched in 2014. So it’s collected one of our coveted Editor’s Choice 2018 awards for the best rides we’ve had in 2018.

Mason Cycles has been progressively expanding its bike range since Dom Mason founded his brand in 2014, introducing the Bokeh gravel bike (Dom Mason prefers to call it “AdventureSport”) in alloy, then in titanium. It’s also been refreshing its original models to take advantage of newer developments. Earlier this year, the alloy Definition got a tech refresh. Now it’s the turn of the steel Mason Resolution.

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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.