Thursday, March 28, 2024

Standert Kettensäge Cuts During the BS with Race-Able Alloy Gravel Motorbike

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Berlin bikemaker Standert adapts hard-won efficiency alloy street race motorbike courses for off-road with their all-new aluminum Kettensäge gravel race motorbike. Constructed from top rate 7000-series Dedacciai Aegis alloy in Italy, the brand new Standert Kettensäge is an “all-in”, no-compromise race motorbike for whilst you in point of fact need to move speedy over gravel roads, trails & tarmac.

Standert Kettensäge aluminum gravel race motorbike

Fashionable race motorcycles don’t all should be made simplest out of carbon. Standert has noticed racing efficiency good fortune at the street with their made-in-Italy scandium alloy Kreissäge RS street race motorbike – named the round noticed in German for the way it can reduce throughout the peloton.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, made-in-italy, photo by Conny Mirbach,BAAW bike against a wall
c. Standert, all pictures via Constantin Mirbach

Now they’re again with a Kettensäge – or chainsaw – for chopping via rougher packs of all-terrain gravel racers. The similar trouble-free steel motorbike advantages are there with the identified alloy stiffness and unexpected convenience that Dedacciai’s top-tier fashionable aluminum tubing can now ship. Plus, it’s a completely up-to-date gravel race motorbike, with all of the fashionable built-in options and mounts you wish to have, plus race-ready gravel tire clearance.

Tech main points

The Kettensäge is going smartly and entirely built-in with a instantly 1.5″ headtube routing all of the cables throughout the headset into the body’s interior routing. However after all, nobody desires to need to maintain re-cabling a motorbike when your ‘ridden-hard’ and ‘put-away-wet’ gravel motorbike’s headset begins to stay.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, made-in-italy, photo by Conny Mirbach, SLT headset

So, throughout the CNC-machined alloy Standert built-in headset cups are CeramicSpeed SLT bearings that include an entire life guaranty because of their ‘everlasting’ self-lubricating & corrosion-resistant oil-encapsulated forged plastic polymer provider for the stainless-steel balls inside of.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, made-in-italy, photo by Conny Mirbach, riding tire detail

Standert is aware of that almost all fast-gravel racing in this day and age occurs on 40mm tires – and the ones are what come on entire Kettensäge motorbike builds.

However every so often tough stipulations name for larger rubber, so this gravel motorbike nonetheless has a variety of room for as much as 700x45c tires, too. If you wish to have greater than that, their recently-updated chrome steel Erdgeschoss journey gravel motorbike may well be a greater are compatible for you.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, angled frame

This alloy gravel race motorbike will get a much broader MTB-width 73mm threaded T47 backside bracket optimized for contemporary 1x gravel motorbike drivetrains (however is appropriate with mechanical or digital 2x setups, too), plus flat mount disc brakes, 12mm thru-axles with gentle SRAM Maxles, and future-proof UDH mounting for that rear mech.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, angled frame rear

Intended to be a racer, it doesn’t opt for complete bikepacking mounts, however sticks with 2 usual bottle cage bosses in the principle triangle plus direct bolt-on toptube bag mounts. The fork does have complete protection fender mounts, however the body does no longer.

The aluminum Standert Kettensäge gravel race motorbike is welded via 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 entire motorcycles round 9.4kg.

Dimension-specific Gravel Race Geometry

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, geometry

The Kettensäge will get very equivalent fast gravel geometry angles to their extra adventurous Erdgeschoss, however this race-ready motorbike does get fairly longer Achieve and decrease Slack for a extra competitive place at the motorbike. It nonetheless is available in Standert’s wide signature Undertaking Compact seven inventory measurement vary from 48-60cm, to suit gravel racers tall and small.

2023 Standert Kettensäge – Pricing, Choices & Availability

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, made-in-italy frameset
2023 Standert Kettensage frameset, in Give ’em Hell Caramel

The all-new aluminum body & carbon fork is available in 3 finishes – Group version darkish inexperienced with crimson graphics, Give ’em Hell Caramel tan & Yolo Barolo crimson with orange trademarks.

For 2000€ you’ll be able to pick out any colour of the made-in-Italy Kettensäge aluminum gravel race motorbike frameset, with the ground bracket compatibility of your selection (or improve to a CeramicSpeed ceramic BB for fairly somewhat extra).

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, made-in-italy, SRAM AXS build
2023 Standert Kettensage SRAM Rival XPLR AXS, in Give ’em Hell Caramel

Whole Standert Kettensäge aluminum gravel race motorcycles get started 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 a variety of extra imaginable upgrades together with a pair DT Swiss carbon wheelsets, even some Three-D-printed Fizik saddles.

Standert Kettensage aluminum gravel race bike, photo by Conny Mirbach, pair of riders

The brand new gravel race motorcycles are to be had now to send anyplace in maximum colour & measurement combos, with supply instances of 3-9 weeks relying on how a lot you wish to have to customise your setup.

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