Crux 2021

[shiiiison]

Looking for something else and found this!

https://www.excelsports.com/specialized ... rameset-22

[gwerziou]

Price $5,499.99, WOAH. Jeez...

[shiiiison]

Price $5,499.99, WOAH. Jeez...

I think these are just templates they loaded up... I know its a sellers market but you cant increase the frameprice almost 100%... can you?

[gwerziou]

Maybe it's like the Aethos, 600 gram frameset or such?

[shiiiison]

So word on the street is the frameset price is somewhere in the 4.000+ USD range. This is coming from a frame that used to be 2700.00.... looks like I am riding the Inflite for another season.

[niklasp]

Specialized: "kill your darlings"?

Remember that S-WORKS is some high margin shizzle. Always room to get lower price on anything with the stamp.

[nateners]

This all but confirms the most INSANE price hike for the incoming MY 2022 Crux. Damn this hurts. This is the US Spesh site.
https://www.specialized.com/us/en/s-wor ... 71421-0146

[maquisard]

This is stupid, what fool would buy this? Especially in a cross frame which will take more abuse than a high end road frame.

[shiiiison]

This all but confirms the most INSANE price hike for the incoming MY 2022 Crux. Damn this hurts. This is the US Spesh site.
https://www.specialized.com/us/en/s-wor ... 71421-0146

My half full attitude says that is just a mistake since that is last year's frameset but tells us something is coming....

[gwerziou]

You could get a Pursuit All Road, various Allied models such as Able, or Open UPPER for less than this...!

[niklasp]

All Crux carbon bikes have "fact 11 carbon" so by the cheapest one and get same frame and fork as S-works?
Google 71421-0146 and youll see that the price seems to be correct. 5000 USD (but a 2021 frame!?). Maybe its a sneaky way to make the new frame to look "no more expensive than previous years".

[niklasp]

Disclaimer: Most of this is from memory (except the geo)

Someone on a small forum sent me some pics of the specs and stuff for model year 2022.
Seems like reach is like 5-10mm longer, stack is little lower (like 4-7mm) or the same.
Chainstay about the same, head tube angle about the same.

On what i saw stock tires was 38c so probably a frame with more space in the rear. The pictures looked just like the old pretty Crux (but who knows how true they are? They where drawn).

S-works gets fact 12 carbon, the rest is downgraded to fact 10 (previously all models had fact 11 carbon). S-works frameset is very expensive at about 5000€, but the good stuff was a "fact 10 crux frameset" for only 3300€. Previous S-works frameset was about 2700€.

Saw some colours but didnt care. The "comp" model had rival mech groupset, "expert" rival AXS I believe, "Pro" maybe AXS red or force.

Anyway I guess it will be a great looking bike and I look forward to it.

[FactoryMatt]

Glad I bought a spare frame used. Looks like next cross platform for me will be an Ibis or some sort of lightweight gravel frame.

Downgrade and raise the price. What a shame.

[gwerziou]

Looks like the OPEN U.P.P.E.R. or especially the Pursuit All Road would be a better and less expensive choice for me compared to the S Works.

[ViperFFM]

Integrated cables?