Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.
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weight is 7,2 for an Ultegra Compact version
Beautiful frame, would look stunning in matte white or naked carbon.
Looks a fairly conventional bike design. With on-trend fluoro highlights. How much does Red Dot know about bikes? Did they actually compare it with any others?
Nice looking but quite heavy. 7.5kg according to website. For this price I'd lump for a Aprire or Canyon any day.
When the frig did 7.5kg become heavy?? Andre Greipel's Noah is heavier
The CF SLX with ultegra is roughly same price and 6.7kg so nearly 1 kilo lighter.
Bike looks great.
You have to apply and pay for red dot "awards". The rejection rate is unsurprisingly not too high.
that's interesting, I didn't know that. The rate of winners to applicants is still fairly respectable: (from Wikipedia)
The number of applicants has been rising steadily. In total, the 2008 competition received more than 11,000 entries from 61 nations. In 2008, there were over 3.200 submissions from 51 countries for the product design prize (with 676 winning), over 5,800 submissions for the communication design prize (with 343 winning) and 1,900 entries from 46 countries (with 223 winning).
Not exactly. You do pay to apply and you do pay if you win, but you DO NOT pay to win.