Let me simply begin off with a bit love for Berlin bikemaker Standert’s Kreissäge RS alloy highway race bike. In a peloton of semi-aero carbon highway bikes that look extra like one another with each passing season, the Scandium alloy Kreissäge RS simply seems to be like a great previous traditional highway bike. Positive, it has all the fashionable bells and whistles – absolutely inside cables, disc brakes, thru-axles, UDH, 35mm tire clearance, and many others. But it surely’s additionally only a modern, no-nonsense round-tubed, welded steel highway bike that desires to go quick.
We’re at the moment crit testing the marginally less-racy aluminum Kreissäge. And we already love that bike. Think about what this even-faster mannequin appears like out of the highway or racetrack?
Standert Kreissäge RS scandium alloy highway bike, up to date
Named in German after a round noticed for the effectivity it cuts by each highway corners and your crit-racing peloton competitors, the brand new Standert Kreissäge RS is the quintessential fashionable alloy highway race bike. Handmade in Italy utilizing an unique Dedacciai scandium-aluminum alloy tubeset, the brand new bike is constructed to be quicker than ever.
“The Kreissäge RS has all the time been about defining our personal requirements. It’s about exhibiting what steel bikes can do, about being totally different in a sea of black plastic, and about having enjoyable, whereas placing within the arduous work. The brand new RS doubles down on what made the Kreissäge an awesome bike within the first place, whereas marking a giant step in our quest to make one of the best steel race bike on the market.”
– Max Von Senger, Standert Founder & CEO
So what all is new?
Aerodynamics are King, even in alloy
Everyone knows that aero is every little thing to everybody now, proper? Nicely, even the traditional aluminum body builders found out some methods to tweak their tubes for further pace. Standert labored with Dedacciai on a brand new set of CFD-optimized aero tubes. They subtly formed the toptube, downtube, and seatstays with aero profiles. After which they gave the headtube a way more dramatic hourglass profile to chop down on its entrance space, whereas sustaining rigidity, a tapered steerer, and full 1.5″ headset bearings to tuck all of the cable inside and outside of the wind.
Up to date body particulars, too…
Past getting aero, Standert says they’ve additionally managed to spice up stiffness round a extra sturdy T47 backside bracket and a extra sloping toptube. The earlier mannequin of the Kreissäge RS already had built-in cables and a T47, however the brand new body now incorporates a wider BB shell that improves rigidity whereas additionally releasing up extra room for greater tires – now as much as 35mm max.
Tech particulars
welded from custom-drawn light-weight aero-shaped Dedacciai Scandium aluminum alloy tubeset in Italy
aero bladed, full carbon tapered steerer 45mm rake fork
built-in absolutely inside cable routing by a Standert Built-in Headset – stainless-steel or CeramicSpeed SLT bearing choices
digital groupset compatibility solely (Di2 or AXS, whereas no others specified)
UDH for common derailleur compatibility
wider 86mm T47 threaded backside bracket (included with framesets)
35mm max tire clearance (precise measured width)
7 inventory sizes (48-60cm) with compact sloping body geometry for decrease weight & increased stiffness
2025 Standert Kreissäge RS – Pricing, choices & availability
The newly up to date Kreissäge RS is obtainable now to purchase, straight from Standert on-line, in 7 inventory body sizes (48-60cm). Decide a frameset by itself beginning at 2000€ (just about the identical value because the earlier technology was promoting for now) if you wish to construct up your personal {custom} construct.
Or select from numerous full Standert Kreissäge RS highway bike construct choices, together with a SRAM Crimson AXS Quarq construct, or Shimano Ultegra or Dura-Ace Di2. Then decide from DT Swiss or Scope carbon wheels, from house-brand Fortunate Cat or Polymer Sculpture Carbon cockpits, from the Fortunate Cat or Polymer Sculpture Carbon seatposts, with saddles by Fizik & tires by Pirelli.
Within the Standert on-line configurator, for instance, a whole Ultegra Di2, DT ARC 1400, Fortunate Cat construct will set you again 6300€.
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