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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I can't believe they photographed that bike and did not quite put the valves at the 'half-past' position, nor line the crank up with the downtube or chainstay
I need to have a lie down in a darkened room.
And read The Rules - or rather they should.
Praise the Lord, no ugly (no sense what so ever) disc brakes on a road bike, but how will the fashion conscious manage.
They will never live it down at the club if they haven't got the latest disc braked fashion accessory to impress the clueless.
It is nice, but I'd put black bar tape on it, change the groupset for a proper one and put some pedals on it. (Manufacturers always seem to forget that...)
If slammed stems will become the norm for aero reasons, will steerers then be beefed up to increase stiffness? A lot of current forks are only specced for up to 40mm of spacers above the head tube.
? slammed means no spaces between head tube and stem. Surely an easier condition for the steerer tube.
OK, I meant inverted.
Still not making any sense mush
I remember when Storck were up with the most expensive manufacturers, 8 grand seems cheap now that an S Works is £13k
was just logging in to say the same thing...odd what the world of high end bikes has become when we think €9000 is cheap for a limited edition super bike....
🎼 What the world needs now, is another black bike....It's the only thing that there's just too little of....🎼
Black is the new black. Agree with the previous comments is a crazy world when £9k seems like a bargain for such a high end bike when compaired to the competition.
Ha!
Good to see a properly lightweight bike that they're sensible enough to use rim brakes.
It's cheaper, lighter, and less black than its predecessor.... that's progress. If it was black and silver instead of bronze it would be appropriate for a kiwi
True
Future-proofness = zero
Chances for reselling = 50% less
future proofing? A rim brake that works today is probably going to work just as well in 20 years time
Not sure what you are driving at here. wheels will always be round, electronic shifting isn't going away. Rim brakes on a bike far to nice to take out in bad winter conditions are just fine.
Well, good luck finding new high end rim brake rims/wheels in 5-10 years.
And good luck finding a buyer for a high-end rim brake bike in a couple of years.
Not that I'm against rim brakes, far from it. Industry is just pushing the other way. And consumers are following (happy or not).
If people keep buying them they'll keep selling them. You can still find 126mm hubs, downtube shifters and square taper bottom brackets today, why wouldn't you expect to find a replacement rim brake caliper or wheel for as long as you expect to own and ride a bike you bought today? Who says a flat mount disc brake bike will be any more future proof, anyone who bought a post mount frame 3 years ago must be screwed by your logic?
Or, discs on a road bike are a fad. This bike could even be evidence of that.