Isaac Element - first look

Their lightest frameset yet

The Isaac Element - their lightest frameset yet. This complete bike is just over 6 kg

Rob Wilmott/BikeRadar.com

Warren Rossiter

Published: January 28, 2013 at 5:30 pm

Dutch carbon specialists Isaac have produced their lightest road frameset to date with the all new Element.

The frame uses Isaac's proprietary high modulus carbon fibre for its construction and it's mated to an all-carbon tapered fork. It has a PressFit 30 bottom bracket and is routed for use with Shimano Di2. The Element also features external routing for mechanical drivetrains, making maintenance easier. If you decide to run Di2 you can simply remove the cables bosses and replace them with dedicated cable ports.

There was no confirmed frame weight available for the Element but the complete bike in this spec tipped the scales at a little over 6 kilos.

Price for the Dura-Ace and Mavic Ksyrium SLR equipped model is £6480, with the frame, fork, headset and seatpost package retailing at £2590.

More information: www.isaac-cycle.com

Warren Rossiter

Senior technical editor

Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).