Compared to Brooks’ 150 years in business, the three year old Salsa Warbird is a wee babe, but it’s still able to celebrate the iconic saddle and gear brands milestone in style. This limited edition build gets a glossy dirty champagne green finish with a solid build with, naturally, a Brooks Cambium C15 saddle and Cambium bar tape. The frame is their latest carbon Warbird, which uses vibration damping stays, thru axles, disc brakes, internal cable routing and three water bottle mounts. Hidden fender mounts and a full carbon fork round it out, and then there’s the components…
The Cambium C15 is one of Brooks’ newer saddles, relying on a vulcanized rubber base rather than leather, and this special anniversary edition gets the rose gold hued rails and hardware.
The build is almost all SRAM, with a Force 22 group (using a KMC X11 chain), hydraulic brakes with 160mm rotors, Zipp Service Course stem and post, Zipp 30 Course wheels with WTB Riddler 700×37 tires, Salsa Cowbell 2 handlebar and Cane Creek 40 headset. Claimed weight is 19lb 6oz, retail is $4,499. Contact your local dealer for more details, and hit their blog page for a little backstory on this model.
