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Gorgeous special edition Salsa Warbird gravel bike celebrates Brooks’ 150th birthday

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Compared to Brooks’ 150 years in business, the three year old Salsa Warbird is a wee babe, but it’s still able to celebrate the iconic saddle and gear brands milestone in style. This limited edition build gets a glossy dirty champagne green finish with a solid build with, naturally, a Brooks Cambium C15 saddle and Cambium bar tape. The frame is their latest carbon Warbird, which uses vibration damping stays, thru axles, disc brakes, internal cable routing and three water bottle mounts. Hidden fender mounts and a full carbon fork round it out, and then there’s the components…

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The Cambium C15 is one of Brooks’ newer saddles, relying on a vulcanized rubber base rather than leather, and this special anniversary edition gets the rose gold hued rails and hardware.

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The build is almost all SRAM, with a Force 22 group (using a KMC X11 chain), hydraulic brakes with 160mm rotors, Zipp Service Course stem and post, Zipp 30 Course wheels with WTB Riddler 700×37 tires, Salsa Cowbell 2 handlebar and Cane Creek 40 headset. Claimed weight is 19lb 6oz, retail is $4,499. Contact your local dealer for more details, and hit their blog page for a little backstory on this model.

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Greg
Greg
7 years ago

I want that

dustytires
7 years ago

Could shave almost 2 pounds by getting rid of that Brooks saddle.

Joun K
Joun K
7 years ago
Reply to  dustytires

But then you would be riding without a saddle.

GVS
GVS
7 years ago
Reply to  Joun K

Haha!

Meshkat
7 years ago
Reply to  dustytires

C15 or C17 is around the 350g range so it would be hard to save 2 pounds (900g) by switching the saddle.

Heffe
Heffe
7 years ago

It’s very pretty but is it a bit pricier than one would expect? I love the color and would get it just for that option – admittedly I have no interest in Brooks and would ditch the saddle immediately. Unfortunately the local dealers in Seattle don’t stock carbon warbirds at all.

Chris
Chris
7 years ago

LOL. Nearly $5k for a near 20 pound bike with no real engineering behind it.

myke2241
myke2241
7 years ago

Someone forgot their cpl filter at home I see.

Dylan
Dylan
7 years ago

If you’re going to do a photoshoot of a ‘special edition’ bike, surely you could set it up so it looks like it has been custom fitted? These photos would look a lot tidier if they used a zero setback seatpost instead of having to slam the saddle all the way forwards on the rails.

Dylan
Dylan
7 years ago
Reply to  Dylan

replying to my own post…or they could just slide the seat back a little for the shoot. On the plus side, maybe the seat position implies that someone cared enough about the press promo bike to take it for a ride even though they really could have used a smaller frame 🙂

Oli
Oli
7 years ago

I use a Salsa Ti layback seat post with brooks pushed forward on my go anywhere tourer. Layback just takes a bit more sting out.

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