On top of this, Giant says it uses lasers rather than machine stamping to cut its carbon fibre sheets and now employs robotics to automate certain aspects of the carbon layup. Rather than using off-the-shelf options, Giant says it weaves its own carbon fibre to its own specification, in its own composites hyper bicycles factory. Rounding off some of the frame tube shapes away from the leading edges of the frameset, enabled them to bear loads more efficiently, Specialized says. Unusually, Canyon even said it added 30g of extra carbon to the frame compared to the previous version, to improve its stiffness and reliability.
I would recommend this bike if you are on a budget and need basic transportation for getting around because it does the job and serves its purpose. As far as cheap mountain bikes go, overall the Havoc Hyper FS hyper mountain bike mountain bike isn’t really all that bad. I was a bit surprised by this because the manufacturer should have sent us the part since the bike was just ordered brand new and we had the order number and receipt.
While the Dura-Ace Di2-equipped SL8 we have in for review weighs 6.76kg in a size 56cm, without pedals or accessories, Specialized says a special-edition, size-52cm version built for Remco Evenepoel to take on this year’s Vuelta a España weighed 6.8kg ready to race. This impressively low weight was almost an afterthought, though – perhaps because Canyon knows it can build lighter bikes. All in, the new O2 VAM has a claimed frame weight (including the integrated seat mast) of 730g in a size 54cm, despite it retaining a number of aerodynamic optimisations. As a result, most riders opted for builds balanced between aerodynamic efficiency and weight. One particularly interesting detail is the wheel design, which features a 55-millimeter deep carbon tubeless profile with an internal width of 22 mm.
You can click the above link for detail instructions on how to build this specific bike yourself and all the tools you will need to do so. The current rule helps provide something of a level playing field (in sporting terms) too, with the UCI stating “The rules governing the use of equipment aim to ensure both the safety of riders and the fairness of competition”. As a result, it wasn’t uncommon to see lead weights added to bikes to ensure they passed checks by beady-eyed UCI commissaires. Ultimately, whatever the physics says, it’s hard to beat the experience of picking up a featherweight bike and imagining how it might improve your climbing. Bike weight makes almost no difference to performance if you’re riding along a flat road.
This was most evident when we weighed pro bikes at the start of the 2022 Tour de France in Copenhagen, Denmark. Despite nearly every rider using some of the best kit available, the average complete bike weight was a hefty 7.92kg. Founded in 2008, Winspace have been designing, building and racing carbon fiber bikes for over a decade.