Open Min.D California

‘Every gram of carbon saved represents at least one headache in developing this frame,’ says Open’s co-founder, Gerard Vroomen, of the Open Min.D California. So how many paracetamols is that in total?

The standard Open Min.D (identical moulds, different carbon layup) weighs a claimed 870g, whereas this model weighs 775g (size large). That’s a huge reduction, but it comes at an organ-reducing price: £7,500 for the frameset, up from £3,199 for the standard Min.D.

But that’s fine, because this bike comes from the same facility that Vroomen used when he and fellow Cervélo founder Phil White produced the ‘world’s lightest’ frames, the R5Ca (2010, 675g) and RCa