This is my new custom Cicli Barco frame made with Columbus XCr which is a very thin, very light, and very expensive, stainless steel, triple butted tubing. This bike weighs 18.875 lbs. with pedals. It has a 58.5 cm seat tube. The fork is also stainless but has a carbon fiber steering tube to save weight. The price of this frame with all the custom features, like the Barco Viva fork, internal brake cable, direct mount brakes, metal name plate, Italian shield, multi-color paint, dark nickel head badge etc. was $3,600, including shipping from Italy. It is handmade exactly the way you want with any finish or paint you can imagine. Gianluca Barco is very fluent in English and works very closely with you to make sure you get exactly what you want. We had about 140 emails between us during the design and build process. I can not recommend them highly enough. I suggest that you look at their Facebook page to see how highly they are regarded in Italy. And, to see some of the options available. You will also see my frame in there.
Although, the bike weighs 18.875 lbs. with pedals, it would be possible to cut some more weight off with a lighter saddle, carbon fork, and carbon wheels (although not wide ones). My wheels are HED Belgium Plus alloy rims which are much wider than most and are tubeless ready. I have 25 cm width Vittoria Corsa Control tubeless tires which end up being 29 cm on these wide rims. The Campagnolo Direct Mount Brakes open to 31.5 cm, wider than most rim brakes. They also work a lot better and are much stronger and trouble free than classic rim brakes.
If you want to know what the bike is really like, here is a review of the same bike. The only difference is the wheels, saddle, and the Campy SR electronic shifting, mine has the mechanical Campy SR group. All the other stuff is WR Compositi carbon fiber from the folks who also make carbon fiber parts for Ferrari and Lamborghini. That bike won the "Best of Italy" award at Bespoked, the English handmade bicycle show last year. That bike weighed 17.6 lbs. but it is a much smaller frame size than mine.
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/reviews/66...rco-xcr-review They give it a 5 star rating and a rave review.
Custom name plate
Campy direct mount brakes and the steel/carbon fork