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Lovely looking bike, and crosses the CX/Gravel line nicely for me as I fancy a bike I can do both on and use as a commuter during the week (hence good to have the mudguard mounts).
Cinelli state 10.4kg for the medium though, so allowing for manufacturer's optimistic weighing, and buying a bigger size, feels like that would be closing in on 11kg. My Trek Superfly with Rebas (but also CX tyres, latex tubes, XT cassette and silly quasi-drop bars) weighs in at 10.8kg!
Might check the callibration of those scales, but for now am looking for where the weight is on the Cinelli, the cheap looking 31.8mm post would be my first swap, and I guess stock tyres and tubes might give away ~300g over my Limus with latex tubes, I guess the cheap Tektro brakes might be a tiny bit heavier than some TRP equivalents? Is 1760g for a triple butted aluminium frame light or heavy?
Frame isn’t super light, but I bet most of the heft is in the wheels.
Yeah true, had sort of assumed though that the wheels on my Superfly (a £1300 29er) would be heavier than those on a £1500 gravel bike, guess maybe you're paying more for a Cinelli frame
Put bluntly, you are paying to be a hipster! Lovely looking bike but for £1.5k you could find something better I'm sure.
Ha! I've already come to suspect I have a hipster's taste in bikes, problem is I try to combine it with an engineer's desire for function and a Scotsman's eye for value, can't win!
That's the crux* of the issue, you can get a similar spec on <£700 bikes and hydraulic disks on £1k bikes, so you would need to really like Cinelli's.
It does look good though.
*a crux incidentally would be a good option?