Anyone with a Fairlight Strael? How does it stack up?

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Originally Posted by raisinberry777

I'm glad you started this thread as I'm currently looking on going down the same path (and like you, I really love the purple).

One of my biggest fears is that, coming from a rim-braked Focus Izalco Max (at ~1.0kg for frame and fork), am I going to hate myself for going to reasonably heavier bike (7.3kg to ~9kg)? Anyone else made the a similar transition from lightweight carbon to steel and lived to tell the tale - and any thoughts from the experience?

Think of it this way...
1. It is completely dead weight, so it only effects your acceleration slightly, because...

2. ...you are probably accelerating 50-80 kg, and unless you are a professional racer (in which case neither of these bikes would be interesting) it is completely unnoticeable except...

3. ...ever so slightly when you want to pick it up to carry or hang in your garage.

I have a Fairlight Strael (3.0 Grey) and have sold my carbon bike and my Klein aluminum. For gravel riding I have a Strael 2.5 on order to be delivered end of May in the new Desert color!

Both these bikes are certainly capable of going faster than I can make them go and it is not because of 1.7kg of dead weight!