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Lapierre release new FDJ Xelius EFI

You can choose the build for yourself via Lapierre's online system

The Lapierre Xelius EFI bike that the FDJ.fr pro cycling team have been racing on this season is now available to buy online.

You can choose the build yourself via Lapierre’s online configurator.

The monocoque frame is made from more than 50% high modulus fibres, according to Lapierre, and it weighs a claimed 890g in a size 55cm. The bottom bracket is PressFit while the head tube is tapered: 1 1/8in at the top and 1 1/4in at the bottom.

Lapierre’s online system allows you to spec the groupset (from Shimano or SRAM), the fork, the wheels (various options from Mavic) the saddle model and colour, the handlebar, stem and seatpost. It’ll update you on the bike’s weight and the price (currently in Euros) as you go. Other frame finishes are available too, including two non-FDJ.fr options.

If you go for the EFI Ultimate Red frame option, you can choose a fork with a World War II aircraft-style pin up motif. If that seems a bit, um, unreconstructed to you, Lapierre explain it this way: “By adding these icons to the Ultimate forks, under the features of 3 pin-ups, Aurélie, Nicole and Audrey, Lapierre is adhering to one of the best French characteristics: associating beauty and excellence.”

A complete FDJ.fr replica frame built up with a Shimano Ultegra 6870 Di2 electronic groupset, Mavic R-Sys wheels, a Fizik R1 bar, stem and seatpost and a Fizik Arione R3 braided saddle, for example, would weigh 6.7kg (14.74lb) and cost €5,893.

For more info go to www.ultimate.lapierrebikes.com/en/ultimate

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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lolol | 10 years ago
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I think you have to be French or Italian to be able to get away with having those girls on your bike, not a 40 year old bloke in England, you'd just look creepy; and not exactly the new women friendly cycling world we are trying to move toward.

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beej.a | 10 years ago
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they could have chose way better looking girls

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bashthebox | 10 years ago
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Lovely.... or logo-plastered garishly generic?

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ajmarshal1 replied to bashthebox | 10 years ago
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bashthebox wrote:

Lovely.... or logo-plastered garishly generic?

Go and see one up close, not just in pictures. They're very, very nice.

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ajmarshal1 | 10 years ago
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Wish they offered Campag options in the configurator. As they don't, I'm out. Shame as the frames are lovely.

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