Originally Posted by
Jarrett2
Neat bike. Had no idea they had that one in their offerings.
I suspect it will be heavy as a mofo. I built up a Gran Premio Elite for a friend which has what looks to be the same frame (sans discs) but with a carbon fork and it weighed 21 lbs. without pedals. I was a little stunned by that. My steel frame/steel fork bike weighs 20 lbs. sans pedals. I assumed the Gran Premio with a carbon fork would have been less.
I say all of that just to say, based on the weight of the Gran Premio and looking at the components on this bike, it may come in weighing 28 lbs. or so.
That weight wouldn't surprise me at all...I figure it would weigh similar to something like the (steel-forked version) salsa vaya, salsa claims the 55cm deore vaya weighs 27lbs. Bet the wheels on the strada weigh a ton.
I don't know that it's identical frame to the gran premio, Bikesdirect says the gran premio clears tires up to 25c, but up to 45c on the strada comp. The paint job and profile are very similar though.