Cyclist Magazine

Condor Acciaio Stainless

It’s Condor’s most expensive bike to date – but this brilliant steel machine truly deserves to be.’ Thus spake my erstwhile colleague Stu Bowers back in January 2013. (I miss you, Stu.)

The bike in question was Condor’s Acciaio Stainless (‘acciaio meaning “steel” in Italian and pronounced A-Cha-Yo, imagine an Italian sneezing’ – thanks again Stu). It cost £2,800 for the frameset and it blew my young mind.

Nine years on the Acciaio Stainless is still very much alive and has been joined by this disc brake version. Price has increased drastically – frames are now £3,799.99 – but this might be more illuminating than

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