It’s been winter here in Australia so haven’t ridden the LCR-018 that often, plus been trying to fix an ongoing annoying creak in the seatpost.

But I did my first long hard ride as part of a local ‘gran fondo’ style event last weekend, 190km, relatively flat and fast in a group of 40-50 on the way out and about 20 of us on the way back. The bike was everything I had hoped it would be when I bought it, really responsive to putting some power into the pedals, climbs way better than I expected, the high stack allowed me to stay in the aero tuck position for extended periods and lots of turns on the front of the group.

I haven’t got my fitness back up (after a health issue) for racing again yet, interested to see how it  handles in a crit. Not sure I’ll go wider than the 30mm tires that measure 33 on my rims, it feels good as is, so stable railing turns at high speed on the flat or down hills.

As mentioned previously I came from a Supersix that handled beautifully in all situations except being a bit skittish on high speed descents. I’m way more confident on the LCR (maybe that’s not a good thing because I’m descending faster lol).

Took my bike into a new mechanic today and straight away he said he thinks the bottom of my seatpost is knocking against the seat tube when I’m climbing seated (which is the main time it creaks, stops as soon as I stand on the pedals), he’s seen it before, so likely he will cut it a bit shorter.

 

Just finished my build. Colours didn’t match my order (royal blue and matt carbon) and the extra cage bolt on the downtube was added above the original two instead of below per my request, but it looks great and rides really nice, got to be happy with it for what they charge!

Coming from a 2023 Supersix Evo gen3 (which I loved except for the bars were a bit low - steerer was already cut when I bought it 2nd hand, compares very well so far. I wanted a higher stack and longer front centre, the bottom bracket with Elilee carbon cranks are super stiff (I opted for no storage compartment), so I will probably use this bike for both racing and endurance rides and sell the SSEvo.

58/XL size frame weighed about 1070g, bars 320g, fork 440g before cutting steerer, total build ready to ride at 7.55kg, right about where I wanted to end up.