Fast, Not Cheap, And Under Eleven Pounds – 10.36 lb Parlee Road Bike

Very Light, Very Trick, Very Foolish

It’s a Scapula F, the one with the integrated front brake.

I live up the road from their shop and was lucky enough to get a mini tour a few months back… awesome people… awesome bikes.

I’d rather loose few pounds.

I’d break that bike by just throwing a leg over it…

@JonatanZ5LS
Re. the fork, it appears to have a standard headset peeking out. That’s not normal on a Z5 as the headset is integrated when you use a tapering fork. So it looks like it’s running a reducer cup and a standard lower cup to fit a standard 1 1/8″ fork.

Following experiments on different length forks on my tandem, it significantly changes the handling. On the tandem I swapped from a ‘touring’ type long fork to a short one. This changed the handling from downhill MTB-like into racing bike. Also the frame angles changed so adjustment of the position was in order.

Here the Stork fork is longer than standard, then there’s an additional cup. Then there’s the fork rake, which may or may not bring trail and therefore handling back into line – maybe. I would guess the handling is all somewhat more colnago like than a colnago and not as the manufacturer intended, since nobody planned for the additional lower cup. And given the geometry is now a bit more touring-like, an AX lightness setback post with a narrow saddle slammed back means the position is a bit ‘Steve Bauer’ (remember his Paris Roubaix crazy bike).

IMHO this along with the tufo tubs indicat this is a bike to go on the wall, not get ridden.