Reach is the horizontal distance from the bottom-bracket centre to the top-centre of the head tube. Combined with stack it locates the cockpit independent of seat-tube length, which makes it the modern way to size a bike.
| # | Bike | Reach | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Scale Gravel RC 2026 | 454 mm | Gravel |
| 2 | Specialized P4 2026 | 445 mm | Dirt Jump |
| 3 | Specialized P3 2026 | 415 mm | Dirt Jump |
| 4 | Santa Cruz Stigmata 2026 | 412 mm | Gravel |
| 5 | Canyon Grail 2026 | 411 mm | Gravel |
| 6 | Ridley Noah Fast 3.0 2026 | 411 mm | Road |
| 7 | BMC URS 2026 | 410 mm | Gravel |
| 8 | Niner ORE 9 RDO 2026 | 409 mm | Gravel |
| 9 | Merida Silex 2026 | 407 mm | Gravel |
| 10 | Ridley ASTR 2026 | 406 mm | Gravel |
| # | Bike | Reach | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salsa Vaya 2026 | 369 mm | Gravel |
| 2 | Merida Scultura Endurance GR 2026 | 371 mm | Gravel |
| 3 | Salsa Warbird 2026 | 371 mm | Gravel |
| 4 | Salsa Fargo 2026 | 371 mm | Gravel |
| 5 | Salsa Journeyer 2026 | 372 mm | Gravel |
| 6 | Trek Domane SLR Gen 4 2026 | 373 mm | Road |
| 7 | Parlee Ouray 2026 | 375 mm | Road |
| 8 | Ribble ALLROAD SL R 2026 | 377 mm | Road |
| 9 | Bianchi Infinito 2026 | 377 mm | Road |
| 10 | Litespeed Arenberg / FI 2026 | 377 mm | Road |
Across 97 audited models the Reach ranges from 369 mm to 454 mm, with a mean of 390 mm and a median of 388 mm. The mean and median agree closely, which tells you the catalog is not skewed toward an extreme of the distribution — most modern bikes target the middle, and the leaderboard above lets you see who deliberately steps outside it.
The current high-watermark is the Scott Scale Gravel RC 2026; the current floor is the Salsa Vaya 2026. Long reach stretches out the rider, opens the chest, and works well with shorter stems. Short reach packs the rider over the bottom bracket, which improves low-speed handling and suits classic stem lengths.
| Type | n | Min | Mean | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel | 42 | 369 mm | 393 mm | 454 mm |
| Dirt Jump | 2 | 415 mm | 430 mm | 445 mm |
| Road | 52 | 373 mm | 386 mm | 411 mm |
| Other | 1 | 385 mm | 385 mm | 385 mm |
This per-discipline breakdown is the more honest comparison: comparing an XC hardtail's Reach to a road frame's is a category error. Use the type rows to find the right peer group, then drill into individual bikes from the leaderboards above. Each bike row links straight to its full geometry page on RideDNA, where you can run a side-by-side against any other audited frame.
If you want to filter on multiple metrics at once, the filter tool lets you set ranges on stack, reach, HTA, trail, wheelbase and chainstay simultaneously and returns every bike that satisfies all the constraints. The discipline pages apply pre-baked filters by riding style, which is the fastest way in if you already know what you ride.
Caveat. Published geometry charts are not all drawn the same way. Some manufacturers publish stack at the top of the head tube exclusive of any integrated headset cap; others publish it at the top of the cap. RideDNA reconciles these to a common reference where possible (see the methodology page for the corrections we apply), but for any single bike you should still treat the chart as ±2 mm uncertainty before you stack-spacer-shop. The relative ordering on this page is more reliable than the absolute values.