Kuota Khan | £5,495 | 7.35kg

Cofidis’s team bike is the embodiment of aggressive speed.

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Kuota is based within a couple of kilometres of the Monza motor racing circuit, and some of this seems to have rubbed off on the Khan, its range-topping race machine.

Kuota says the Khan is a bike created for the needs of the pros. For the next two seasons, Kuota is the bike sponsor of the Cofidis pro teamand indeed our test bike is beautifully finished in the striking red and black livery of the French squad and its maverick sprinter Nacer Bouhanni. It’s one of the sweetest paint jobs we’ve seen in a while.

The Khan frame-set is priced at £2,799 by UK importer DHW Agencies, with the bike as built here costing £5,495.