Lightest Road Bike Frame In The World

Read to see what went into making this remarkable bike.

Lightest road bike frame in the world.

Here are six that barely trouble the scales. At 7 9kg size large it s not the lightest bike we ve ever tested but this does include 50mm deep aero wheels and with a frame weight of just 890g claimed it could certainly be lightened. In the past finding the best lightweight road bike has been the sole requirement for a road cyclist when buying a new bike. Ax components actually feature on the lightest custom build.

Ax components actually feature on the lightest custom build as. The 56cm émonda slr 9 frame weighs 640 grams 1 41 pounds. This frame is constructed from the brand s premi. The bike you re about to see was an idea originally started and created in 2008 by a german guy named gunter mai who logged over 20 000km on the machine for a couple years and it weighed at around 3 2kg.

Trek émonda slr 9 etap project one 9 057. The specialized s works tarmac sl6 that we reviewed here on road cc weighed in at just 6 35kg 14lb well below the uci s minimum weight limit for racing of 6 8kg 14 99lb and that got us thinking about the other super lightweight road bikes out there. This yasujiro svelte weighs just 5 42kg which we reckon makes it the lightest steel road bike in the world. Saving weight was a racer s primary concern in the pursuit of speed.

This yasujiro svelte which is made from tange ultimate tubing is the world s lightest steel road bike coming in at just 5 42kg. The world s lightest production road bike is the ax lightness vial evo ultra which comes in at a claimed 9 7 pounds for the total bike. The waterloo wisconsin company says it is the lightest bike it s ever made and the lightest production road bike in the world.