News bot Posted October 8, 2020 Share Press releaseThe creation of our Aethos road bike started with a question: “What if?” Download attachment: Aethos_Experience_California_8.jpg What if we built a bike focused around the purest imaginable road riding experience? What if we built a bike to maximize the timeless moments where everything disappears and human and machine become one. We all know these moments, the ones where we lose ourselves in the reverence of dancing up a climb or telepathically carving through a turn, where we feel liberated from the constraints that surround everyday life and the miles just melt into hours.Click here to view the article Bevan1212 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne pudding Mol Posted October 8, 2020 Share Wow just 200 grand Pure Savage, Sprocket and Chain, Hairy and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knersboy Posted October 8, 2020 Share It is like a super model, I am never gonna have one but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy looking at it. Patchelicious, Raf, keithbe and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewbacca Posted October 8, 2020 Share This bike is beautiful. I want one. I know I shouldn't want one, but I do. Patchelicious, Wayne pudding Mol, Danger Dassie and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vetplant Posted October 8, 2020 Share Please Lotto..... Please pick my numbers... That's the only way I will ride this. I like the explanation of the process. It is what everyone has been waiting for, serious optimization of the carbon fibre layups. Edited October 8, 2020 by Vetplant Hairy and DieselnDust 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas_187 Posted October 8, 2020 Share The first photo of someone overtaking the 5.9kg bike up a climb wins a prize!Seriously though, it's a beautiful bike Hairy, peetwindhoek and Wayne pudding Mol 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselnDust Posted October 8, 2020 Share I just can't get excited about a bike that costs this much. I applaud the achievement but the price is just ....cynical Wayne pudding Mol and Hairy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket-Boy Posted October 8, 2020 Share The thing about this bike that does it for me, is that you know Specialized. You know their bikes are expensive and you know they are all about the marketing....You also know that no matter how much you want to hate them, that they make some exceptional products. Sure its not the lightest you can build and you could get the same weight for cheaper, but you are not going to make as complete a package as this bike. I think its awesome. WrightJnr, Milkman, Riaan H and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie Posted October 8, 2020 Share Time for the UCI weight limit to go to 5 kg Wayne pudding Mol, Sebastian77, Vetplant and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaper Posted October 8, 2020 Share Nice looking bike! Perhaps the flood gates will now open and more bike manufacturers will go weight weenie on frames. Will be interesting to see this development! Vetplant and Wayne pudding Mol 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas_187 Posted October 8, 2020 Share The R200k S-Works is actually a claimed weight of 6.1kg. The Founders edition is 5.9kg but that will cost a staggering £13,000 Wayne pudding Mol and DieselnDust 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veebee Posted October 9, 2020 Share For much less, you can build this [which looks pretty much the same] with top spec lightweight carbon goodies, and get it well below 6kg. https://www.chapter2bikes.com/range/huru/matt-orange Frame - R60k landedGruppo - Sram Red 22 still about the lightest - R30kWheels / Bars / stem / saddle and few extra's - R60k R50k in your pocket for another build Underachiever, Skylark and DieselnDust 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne pudding Mol Posted October 9, 2020 Share For much less, you can build this [which looks pretty much the same] with top spec lightweight carbon goodies, and get it well below 6kg. https://www.chapter2bikes.com/range/huru/matt-orange Frame - R60k landedGruppo - Sram Red 22 still about the lightest - R30kWheels / Bars / stem / saddle and few extra's - R60k R50k in your pocket for another build but you can't tell your mates on the golf course that you have the most expensive Sworks on your Range Rover Hairy, Underachiever, Muttley and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jewbacca Posted October 9, 2020 Share For much less, you can build this [which looks pretty much the same] with top spec lightweight carbon goodies, and get it well below 6kg. https://www.chapter2bikes.com/range/huru/matt-orange Frame - R60k landedGruppo - Sram Red 22 still about the lightest - R30kWheels / Bars / stem / saddle and few extra's - R60k R50k in your pocket for another build Isn't Chapter a catalogue bike? I get what you are saying, but weight isn't the only metric that makes this bike 'cool'. One thing Spaz do very well is R and D. So their bikes work. Love to hate them, but they have bikes for all price points, most avenues of riding and pretty much all of them flex where they are meant to and don't where they are not supposed to. One could definitely build a lighter bike. That Cannondale Alu frame built up at around 6kg with all the right bits. Ride quality is also important, especially when you are paying so much. I would choose this over a catalogue bike any day of the week. It has literally been designed from the ground up so that the cafe racers and social group riders can brag about their bike. This bike makes no sense! It isn't aero, it isn't race legal. It is purely an ego booster/superbike for a mamil. That is why it pains me to admit that I want one, despite knowing that it will just highlight the lack of schlong in my bibshorts and make me feel like a hero while I climb one of Cape Town many fake hills slowly... But feeling like a hero nonetheless. Edited October 9, 2020 by Jewbacca Danger Dassie, ChrisF, Riaan H and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kranswurm Posted October 9, 2020 Share Beautiful.Its a crime to put cages and bottles on it. Jewbacca 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pure Savage Posted October 9, 2020 Share Or you could just buy a Cannondale 2018 Super six evo for R30k. Pieterlab1, DieselnDust, Underachiever and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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