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Standert Triebwerk CR ignores trends, builds beautiful classic steel road bikes

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, Mont Ventoux
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While the world builds more aero carbon disc brake road bikes, Berlin’s Standert Triebwerk CR eschews trends to refine a classic and classy steel road bike. Lightweight butted Columbus steel tubing, 1 1/8″ external bearing headset, rim brakes… that doesn’t sound like the latest technology, but it does sound like the kind of timeless bike that got many of us hooked on riding road… a welcome breath of fresh air!

Standert Triebwerk CR builds a beautiful classic steel road bike

Don’t get us wrong, Standert still does disc brake road well, too. Their most recent steel Triebwerk Disc LTD road bike update with a more narrow tapered fork and room for 32mm road tires made that bike both more modern & more classic at the same time. And realistically, that’s probably the type of road bike I would prefer.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, complete
c. Standert, all photos by Savannah van der Niet

But I know there are still plenty of classic rim brake roadie holdouts. And we are truly happy to see Standert refining classic builds too. They’ve done well with limited edition rim brake road bikes before. But this one jumps back to more classy, classic standards, without leaving the most important modern technical advances behind.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, Mont Ventoux climb

Standert says, “We didn’t test it in a wind tunnel because the views in there suck. Instead, we had a lovely trip to France and rode it up the Mont Ventoux. The Triebwerk CR is made to create memories and take you places, instead of KOMs and races.”

Tech details

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, NDS frameset detail riding

The “Classic Rim brake” Standert Triebwerk CR was developed to mix modern steel into a timeless road bike. It is TIG-welded in Taiwan from a multi-butted mix of Columbus Spirit, Spirit HSS & XCr tubes.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, Columbus frame detail

Claimed frame weight is 1815g (size 56cm), plus 375g for the Columbus Futura Caliper SL carbon fork.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, NDS routing

With a sneaky touch for the modern… the rim brake, QR dropout frameset does feature a T47 threaded bottom bracket, modular internal cable routing for 1x/2x, Di2/eTap/EPS shifting, and room for modern 28mm tires.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, headtube

It does stick with a straight 1.125″ headtube, 27.2mm seatpost, and external seatpost clamp, though.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic steel road bike – Pricing, options & availability

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, geometry

The new Triebwerk CR is available in Standert’s Berlin studio, or for sale direct from their online shop – available in five stock sizes (52-60cm) and in either salt or pepper paint jobs (white or black).

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, frameset
2021 Standert Triebwerk CR pepper frameset

The 1900€ frameset option includes the steel Triebwerk CR frame & painted-to-match Columbus Futura Caliper SL carbon fork, plus a Chris King NoThreadSet, a First T47 BB for your pick of crankset compatibility, and the alloy seatpost binder.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, complete
2021 Standert Triebwerk CR salt SRAM Force eTap AXS complete

Complete bike builds will also be available now starting from 5050€ with a SRAM Force eTap AXS kit, or just 300€ more for Red 22 mechanical.

Standert Triebwerk CR classic lightweight steel rim brake road bike, photo by Savannah van der Niet, sunset

Both framesets and complete bikes can be delivered globally.

Standert.de

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blahnblahblah
blahnblahblah
2 years ago

nice

wallymann
wallymann
2 years ago

fyi…those seat-tube and head-tube angles look reversed!

Alex
Alex
2 years ago
Reply to  wallymann

Agree! A 74 degree seat angle for those sizes looks wrong, especially for a so called “classic” bike.

Mark
Mark
2 years ago

A radially spoked, rim braked (of course) wheel is so appealing to me. Light, simple and 99% of the time more than effective enough. I hope frame manufacturers continue to offer rim brake options.

RXPT
RXPT
2 years ago

I hope all rim-brake frame manufacturers going forward use the final evolution of the rim brake: The direct-mount caliper.

Tim
Tim
2 years ago
Reply to  RXPT

Indeed! The only problem is economies of scale, I suspect direct mount brakes and the frame fittings for them are more expensive to make.

Mark Beaver
2 years ago
Reply to  Tim

I’m expecting that the holdback on using direct mount is the carbon fork – I don’t recall Columbus (or anyone?) making a fork with direct mount in a straight 1-1/8” steerer. There are some tapered steerer direct mount forks out there, I know, but fewer and fewer options in rim brake forks every month.

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