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Video: Six of the best steel road bikes — keeping it real with steel
Despite the advance in modern materials, steel is still a ruddy good choice for making a bicycle frame, as the long list of brands still working with steel tubing proves. In this latest Six of the Best video, we've rounded up six steel beauties that we think are good examples of the latest breed of steel road bikes.
Not to give too much away, but we've got bikes from Fairlight, Condor, Mason, Kona, Genesis and Donhou in this video, and you can find out more about them from the reviews and buying links in the table below.
By the way, the current equivalent of the Kona Roadhouse featured in the video is the Wheelhouse; the £3,999 Roadhouse has gone way upmarket, and the Condor Fratello Disc price cited is for a bike with Shimano 105 components, specced up using Condor's bike builder.
Our pick of six of the best steel road bikes
| Weight | Market price | Read more | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairlight Strael |
8,900g |
£2,639 |
Read
our review |
| Condor Fratello Disc |
10,062g |
~£2,200 |
Read
our review |
| Mason Resolution |
8,900g |
£2,745 |
Read
our review |
| Kona Wheelhouse |
10,300g |
£1,799 |
Read
our review |
| Genesis Equilibrium Disc |
~10,000g |
£1,995 |
Read
our review |
| Donhou DSS1 |
8,700g |
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£4,585 |
Read
our review |
David worked on the road.cc tech team from 2012-2020. Previously he was editor of Bikemagic.com and before that staff writer at RCUK. He's a seasoned cyclist of all disciplines, from road to mountain biking, touring to cyclo-cross, he only wishes he had time to ride them all. He's mildly competitive, though he'll never admit it, and is a frequent road racer but is too lazy to do really well. He currently resides in the Cotswolds, and you can now find him over on his own YouTube channel David Arthur - Just Ride Bikes.
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I know that now, peter, but that's new information: my comment above was three weeks ago, before the RAIB got involved
Bit more travel and some flat bars and these could be quite handy.
Surely both your camera and cycle computer have time by frame or second so that it is trivial to show what speed you had at that moment.
With my increased road riding (mainly utility) I think I need to sign up with CUK. If some idoit driver hits me, i don't want the stress of trying...
https://road.cc/content/news/cyclist-hit-partially-sighted-motorist-figh...
Campag cassettes won't fit on Shimano freehubs, will they?
My thoughts as well, unless the premise is that they are the last two competing for the title over a wider range of devices.
I actually thought I was about to see John McClane appear a second later out of the smoke.
Or maybe he should avoid gambling for the rest of the year as he's used up his quota of good luck.