Utilizing the identical house-made 6/4 titanium high tube as their ultralight Spezia highway body, the brand new Litespeed Toscano claims to be the lightest manufacturing titanium gravel bike in the marketplace.
It shares the identical size-specific tubing and tighter tolerances for tube wall thickness, too. And the insides of the top tube and backside bracket are machined to take away weight. The result’s a claimed body weight of simply 1,240g in dimension medium. That’s for the Toscano FI (Absolutely Built-in) mannequin, and there’s a base mannequin with customary cable routing, too. Let’s have a look…
Toscano Body Particulars
The Toscano’s body options go properly past the precise materials, however the high tube is price highlighting. In contrast to most tubes, this one’s folded from a sheet of 6/4 ti, which lets them fine-tune the journey high quality.
A triaxially ovalized downtube has a partial teardrop form to “aerodynamically defend the water bottle” earlier than widening on the BB to maximise torsional stiffness.
The dropped driveside chainstay additionally creates extra tire clearance, as much as 700×48 gravel tires, whereas nonetheless permitting 2x gravel drivetrains.
The seatstays land on the edges of the highest tube. They are saying this wider stance provides lateral stiffness with out giving up titanium’s signature journey high quality, and it provides tire clearance.
The dropouts are barely relieved to save lots of just a few extra grams and match a UDH for future compatibility. Each fashions are supplied with Di2- or AXS-specific designs, however you may organize them with mechanical shift cable routing. That offers you the complete vary of gravel drivetrains, together with the most recent SRAM Apex XPLR and Shimano GRX teams, to not point out Campy Ekar.
Toscano Pricing & Choices
The FI mannequin makes use of a bigger diameter head tube with their very own carbon fork and the FSA ACR cockpit to cover all cables and wires. An ENVE InRoute fork/bar/stem improve possibility can be obtainable. These fashions use a threaded T47 backside bracket and are the lightest possibility. Bikes begin at $7,550, and framesets are $4,550.
For individuals who prefer to preserve it less complicated (or save a couple of dollars), a non-FI mannequin has customary inner routing. These begin at $6,899 and include a PF30 backside bracket shell, however you may improve to T47. Claimed body weight for this customary model is 1,355g, which remains to be fairly gentle for a titanium body. Frameset is $4,295.
Select from customary vinyl decals or their TiDize shade anodization and etching for a extra customized look. Frames are available XS/S/M/ML/L/XL sizes.