Brooks has been getting a lot of play out of their Dashing Bikes project to celebrate their 150th anniversary. And while at first we didn’t really want to over do it covering them for the sake of leather saddle PR, the project bikes themselves have been really unique and interesting in their own right, and to be fair, irrespective of the saddles and bar tape. The latest special edition bike is the simple steel Pelago Stavanger from Finland. We’ve seen their no-nonsense bikes on occasion in Europe, but this latest makes for a simple, functional look that ties a classic build together for an everyday practicality…
The Stavanger is a classic road bike in the sense that many companies had stopped building for years, but the more recent growth of road touring, the resurgence of randonneur, and the all-road movement have brought back in vogue. That means a classic butted steel frame and steel fork with a full suite of rack & fender mounts and room to roll on some comfortably squishy road tires along with full coverage fenders.
The result is a bike that is just as happy to take you on your commute back-and-forth to the office all year round, as it would be to head off on an adventure across the Scandinavian Peninsula.
The built-in-Finland Stavanger starts by welding up a set of double butted 4130 chromoly tubes for the frame, and adds in a matching lugged fork that gets copper plated to tie together the whole Brooks 150th look. That of course adds in a limited edition Swift saddle with copper rails & rivets and matching leather bar tape, plus a numbered copper badge on the seattube.
