It weighs in at 21.4 pounds - in race mode, with cages and Candy pedals on. (Race mode is with just the one chain ring and no front derailer). It has the normal wear and tear for a bike that gets plastered in mud for 2 months of the year. TARDME page here >>
I have done two seasons of cross on this bike and it really is a nice bike.
I think the thin frame tubes stop it from picking up mud on all but the muddiest of courses.
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Photo Craig Madsen |
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Photo Mike Molony |
The front brakes are cheap, but really good mini-vees, and collectible Critical Racing uber-cantis on the back. Way better than most cantis.

Rear brakes by Critical Racing from back in the day.
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At the Hinakura 100 Gravel Grinder a while back. |
Candys have a reputation for light weight and a need for maintenance. They are still the best pedal for Cyclocross in my book. As long as you only race on them and service them once a season. Still life left in these ones.
The saddle is a Specialized Phenom that was once ridden for 18 hours a day for 4 and a half days with no long-term botty-trauma that couldn't be cured by a weeks rest and some counselling. These are great saddles actually.
The seat-post is a bullet proof Thomson.
The cranks are uber-light FSA octa-link carbons with a durace BB.
These cranks have been very well used with at least two years of solid commuting but they are still solid-as. Don't look at me like that, I didn't bore the holes in the chain rings! The front deralier is a no-name. No idea sorry.
Photo with my road wheels on, these wheels are NOT for sale. |
Stem is a well-used Tune. World class German Engineering.
This is how it is being sold. (Without the rear tail-light!) |
135mm wide rear Tune hub. Screw-on slow-release axels.
This is an out-of-the-box ready to roll competitive CX-bike or a comfortable all day gravel grinder.
I'm not sure why I am selling it. It's a very pretty and totally competitive bike, too many bikes I guess. If it doesn't sell I wont be sad.
Frame: Singular Kite 4130 tubing.
Size medium: 54 top-tube centre to centre, 52.5 seat-tube centre to centre. Official specs here with "effective distances" which appear a bit larger.
Bars: Salsa Moto Bell-lap
Shifters: 9 Speed, Ultegra or Durace. Not sure.
Stem: Tune
Hubs: Tune (Rear 135mm)
Rims: Ambrosio Excellight rims
Skewers: No-name slow-release
Saddle: Specialized Phenom 143
Seat post: Thompson Elite.
Derailler front: No name
Derailer rear: Old XT 9 speed (still 10 speed compatible)
Cluster: Ultegra 12-27
Crank: FSA Octa-link carbons, very light. 50/34 rings.
Bottom Bracket: Durace octa-link
Pedals: Crank bros Candys
Brakes front: XLC mini-vees. Awesome.
Brakes rear: Extra large cantis by Critical Racing (Retro collectors item but also very good).
Tires: Maxxis Raze 33mms. Great tires for Welly conditions.
Headset: Tioga
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Here are the areas on the frame that look a bit rough.
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