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Rose X-Lite Team 8810 ETAP
Cycling Plus
|January 2018
£4595.47 > A blooming lovely lightweight ride
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Lightweight bikes always impress, and at 6.09kg, this 57cm Rose is among the lightest we’ve tested. Headline-grabbing lightweight specials often use expensive components, and although not exactly cheap, Rose has fitted a standard SRAM eTap groupset, Ritchey finishing kit and a Mavic wheel system.
This story is from the January 2018 edition of Cycling Plus.
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