Let me just start off with a little love for Berlin bikemaker Standert’s Kreissäge RS alloy road race bike. In a peloton of semi-aero carbon road bikes that look more like each other with every passing season, the Scandium alloy Kreissäge RS just looks like a good old classic road bike. Sure, it has all the modern bells and whistles – fully internal cables, disc brakes, thru-axles, UDH, 35mm tire clearance, etc. But it’s also just a sleek, no-nonsense round-tubed, welded metal road bike that wants to go fast.
We’re currently crit testing the slightly less-racy aluminum Kreissäge. And we already love that bike. Imagine what this even-faster model feels like out of the road or racetrack?
Standert Kreissäge RS scandium alloy road bike, updated
Named in German after a circular saw for the efficiency it cuts through both road corners and your crit-racing peloton competition, the new Standert Kreissäge RS is the quintessential modern alloy road race bike. Handmade in Italy using an exclusive Dedacciai scandium-aluminum alloy tubeset, the new bike is built to be faster than ever.
“The Kreissäge RS has always been about defining our own standards. It’s about showing what metal bikes can do, about being different in a sea of black plastic, and about having fun, while putting in the hard work. The new RS doubles down on what made the Kreissäge a great bike in the first place, while marking a big step in our quest to make the best metal race bike out there.”
– Max Von Senger, Standert Founder & CEO
So what all is new?
Aerodynamics are King, even in alloy
We all know that aero is everything to everyone now, right? Well, even the classic aluminum frame builders figured out some ways to tweak their tubes for extra speed. Standert worked with Dedacciai on a new set of CFD-optimized aero tubes. They subtly shaped the toptube, downtube, and seatstays with aero profiles. And then they gave the headtube a much more dramatic hourglass profile to cut down on its front area, while maintaining rigidity, a tapered steerer, and full 1.5″ headset bearings to tuck all the cable inside and out of the wind.
Updated frame details, too…
Beyond getting aero, Standert says they’ve also managed to boost stiffness around a more robust T47 bottom bracket and a more sloping toptube. The previous model of the Kreissäge RS already had integrated cables and a T47, but the new frame now features a wider BB shell that improves rigidity while also freeing up more room for bigger tires – now up to 35mm max.
Tech details
- welded from custom-drawn lightweight aero-shaped Dedacciai Scandium aluminum alloy tubeset in Italy
- aero bladed, full carbon tapered steerer 45mm rake fork
- integrated fully internal cable routing through a Standert Integrated Headset – stainless steel or CeramicSpeed SLT bearing options
- electronic groupset compatibility only (Di2 or AXS, while no others specified)
- UDH for universal derailleur compatibility
- wider 86mm T47 threaded bottom bracket (included with framesets)
- 35mm max tire clearance (actual measured width)
- 7 stock sizes (48-60cm) with compact sloping frame geometry for lower weight & higher stiffness
2025 Standert Kreissäge RS – Pricing, options & availability
The newly updated Kreissäge RS is available now to buy, directly from Standert online, in 7 stock frame sizes (48-60cm). Pick a frameset on its own starting at 2000€ (pretty much the same price as the previous generation was selling for now) if you want to build up your own custom build.
Or choose from a number of complete Standert Kreissäge RS road bike build options, including a SRAM Red AXS Quarq build, or Shimano Ultegra or Dura-Ace Di2. Then pick from DT Swiss or Scope carbon wheels, from house-brand Lucky Cat or Polymer Sculpture Carbon cockpits, from the Lucky Cat or Polymer Sculpture Carbon seatposts, with saddles by Fizik & tires by Pirelli.
In the Standert online configurator, for example, a complete Ultegra Di2, DT ARC 1400, Lucky Cat build will set you back 6300€.
