Strada Bianca


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1 1/8″ headset
130mm rear spacing
68mm English BB
27.2mm seat post
31.8mm clamp-on front der required
Limited lifetime warranty

Strada Bianca
Welded in-house using Columbus steel tubing – $2200

Strada Bianca Ti
Built in-house using straight-gauge 3/2.5 titanium – $2700
Fabricated by Kent Eriksen – $3400

Designed like a 60s-era road race bike, our Strada Bianca (“white road” in Italian) is intended for fatter 25-to-35mm tires – our favorites being the 28mm Challenge Parigi-Roubaix and Rivendell’s 33.3mm Jack Brown tires. Fast on smooth pavement but relaxed-yet-tough when the road turns to trail, cobbles, gravel, or dirt.

Wearing fenders – even carrying a light load – this bike does it all. We also include a great carbon fork from Wound Up designed for 57mm-reach calipers that fits fat tires or fenders just fine.


Douglas Brooks on:
Why the Hampsten Strada Bianca? (pdf)