Because it’s inception, Breadwinner Cycles has been all about customized metal bikes, from their B-Street gravel bike to the Lola street bike. They usually’ve executed some very cool customized bikes and impressed finishes.
Now, they’re launching the A-Street, their first stock-sized mannequin, and it’s an all-road bike that splits the distinction between their street and gravel bikes.
Founder Tony Pereira says the geometry is a mashup of averaging all the customized builds they’ve ever executed and evaluating that to what all the opposite key manufacturers are placing on the market, and designed one thing that provides it the correct dealing with and efficiency for an all-around, all-road bike.
Most customized builders are fast to acknowledge {that a} well-designed inventory bike will work nice for 90% of riders, and Breadwinner has excessive hopes for the brand new A-Street to offer much more riders their signature model, however faster and extra affordably.
Pereira provides “The best way most individuals are utilizing a gravel bike, the A-Street is the proper bike for them. Stays are a bit of tighter, it seems and rides quicker, is tremendous enjoyable, however with out being overkill.”
The body is manufactured from Columbus Spirit metal tubing with Paragon chrome steel through axle dropouts, and is paired with an ENVE AR carbon fork.
The cables, wires, and so forth., run contained in the downtube, and it’s bought with digital teams solely, so with Di2 the wire will conceal contained in the seat tube and chainstay. It’s working a T47 backside bracket, and has three bottle cage mounts (one below the downtube).
The body clears 700×40 tires, or add fenders to the mounts and run 32mm tires.
The bikes are nonetheless made to order, however inventory sizing lets them preserve tubes pre-cut and on the prepared. Most frames are made the week following an order, then despatched off for paint. Select from inventory coloration finishes, or go customized for a bit extra. Full bikes begin at $6,790 and are delivered in six weeks or much less.
