Berlin bikemaker Standert adapts hard-won efficiency alloy highway race bike classes for off-road with their all-new aluminum Kettensäge gravel race bike. Constructed from premium 7000-series Dedacciai Aegis alloy in Italy, the brand new Standert Kettensäge is an “all-in”, no-compromise race bike for if you actually need to go quick over gravel roads, trails & tarmac.
Standert Kettensäge aluminum gravel race bike
Fashionable race bikes don’t all need to be made solely out of carbon. Standert has seen racing efficiency success on the highway with their made-in-Italy scandium alloy Kreissäge RS highway race bike – named the round noticed in German for the way it can minimize by the peloton.
Now they’re again with a Kettensäge – or chainsaw – for slicing by rougher packs of all-terrain gravel racers. The identical trouble-free steel bike advantages are there with the recognized alloy stiffness and stunning consolation that Dedacciai’s top-tier trendy aluminum tubing can now ship. Plus, it’s a totally up-to-date gravel race bike, with all the fashionable built-in options and mounts you want, plus race-ready gravel tire clearance.
Tech particulars
The Kettensäge goes neatly and absolutely built-in with a straight 1.5″ headtube routing all of the cables by the headset into the body’s inner routing. However after all, nobody needs to need to cope with re-cabling a motorcycle when your ‘ridden-hard’ and ‘put-away-wet’ gravel bike’s headset begins to stay.
So, contained in the CNC-machined alloy Standert built-in headset cups are CeramicSpeed SLT bearings that include a lifetime guarantee due to their ‘everlasting’ self-lubricating & corrosion-resistant oil-encapsulated stable plastic polymer provider for the stainless-steel balls inside.
Standert is aware of that the majority fast-gravel racing nowadays occurs on 40mm tires – and people are what come on full Kettensäge bike builds.
However typically tough circumstances name for greater rubber, so this gravel bike nonetheless has loads of room for as much as 700x45c tires, too. Should you want greater than that, their recently-updated stainless-steel Erdgeschoss journey gravel bike is perhaps a greater match for you.
This alloy gravel race bike will get a wider MTB-width 73mm threaded T47 backside bracket optimized for contemporary 1x gravel bike drivetrains (however is appropriate with mechanical or digital 2x setups, too), plus flat mount disc brakes, 12mm thru-axles with mild SRAM Maxles, and future-proof UDH mounting for that rear mech.
Meant to be a racer, it doesn’t go for full bikepacking mounts, however sticks with 2 commonplace bottle cage bosses in the principle triangle plus direct bolt-on toptube bag mounts. The fork does have full protection fender mounts, however the body doesn’t.
The aluminum Standert Kettensäge gravel race bike is welded by hand from light-weight customized double-butted Dedacciai Aegis aluminum tubing, and handpainted in northern Italy – with claimed alloy body (54cm) weight of 1590g, carbon fork at 400g, and full bikes round 9.4kg.
Dimension-specific Gravel Race Geometry
The Kettensäge will get very related fast gravel geometry angles to their extra adventurous Erdgeschoss, however this race-ready bike does get barely longer Attain and decrease Slack for a extra aggressive place on the bike. It nonetheless is available in Standert’s broad signature Mission Compact seven inventory dimension vary from 48-60cm, to suit gravel racers tall and small.
2023 Standert Kettensäge – Pricing, Choices & Availability
The all-new aluminum body & carbon fork is available in three finishes – Staff version darkish inexperienced with pink graphics, Give ’em Hell Caramel tan & Yolo Barolo crimson with orange logos.
For 2000€ you’ll be able to choose any coloration of the made-in-Italy Kettensäge aluminum gravel race bike frameset, with the underside bracket compatibility of your selection (or improve to a CeramicSpeed ceramic BB for fairly a bit extra).
Full Standert Kettensäge aluminum gravel race bikes begin at 4700€ with a Shimano GRX 2×11 construct with alloy wheels, or step as much as SRAM Rival/Drive XPLR AXS wi-fi 1x from 5000€. There’s additionally loads of extra potential upgrades together with a pair DT Swiss carbon wheelsets, even some 3D-printed Fizik saddles.
The brand new gravel race bikes can be found now to ship anyplace in most coloration & dimension mixtures, with supply occasions of 3-9 weeks relying on how a lot you need to customise your setup.
