Field Test 2022: Litespeed Cherohala all-road bike review

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If I wasn’t cheap I’d buy it!!!! I prefer 105 mechanical over something with a battery 🪫. I’d pay for the threaded bottom bracket.

Great video. The bike looks nice. I have a 20 year old Litespeed Siena frame and Ultegra 6800 components. It rides as good as new and, and you said about ti, runs buttery smooth. The Cherohala looks like an interesting bike. Thank you for the insights.

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Why are you showing reach with no ST angle? Such a useless metric for drop bar bike fit. HTT is much more useful. Exposed cable routing make shifting WAY better! Damn right. Running housing end to end makes for a lot more compressability in the housing, so the precision is lower and there is more friction too.

Thanks for this review. I was thinking about getting this bike for many reasons, but kept debating about it because as you say, it's not cheap. After seeing this though, it set my mind at ease, and I bought one while they were on sale for labor day. Comfortable, durable, Made in the USA, and also, definitely stands apart from the normal carbon fiber that's out there.

I purchased this bike recently with the mechanical Ultegra and upgraded wheelset to replace an older 15+ year Ti road bike (which I still use). It's definitely "buy it for life" kinda bike!

$4,800 for over 9kgs.

There is nothing quite like a Titanium bike. I have a 2018 WHY R+:
It's still an amazing, light and capable bike on road or gravel! Made in the USA.

IDK why Lightspeed has spec'd for up to 38c clearance. My R+ is still a "Road-Plus+ or "All-Road" bike and I can fit up to 47mm ! I think 38 will get the job done, but I would have liked to see more tire capacity. 45mm seems to be minimum nowadays and I agree with that notion.

Also this bike sorely needs a carbon 27.2 seatpost - even if you used an adapter.
31.8 is way too unyielding for this frame.

This bike suffers from an identity crisis. A bike with 38 mil tire clearance should not give away too much road capability these days. To me, that mountain bike seat tube diameter and head angle really hurt it.

I've had a lot of bikes over the years, including steel bikes, aluminum, carbon "climbing" bikes, aero road bikes, etc. While I love my top-end aero bike (well, top-end 5 years ago), I've never felt at home on a bike as much as my titanium road bike. Every other one that I get on after riding another bike, I have to "get used to it", but my titanium bike always felt like home as soon as I jumped on it. Granted, it was custom, but still - I've ridden my Pinarello just about every day for months now without touching any other bike, but if my titanium bike was still around, I'd instantly feel more at home on that than my Pinarello.

Litespeed and Lynskey really deserve praise for bringing titanium ownership within reach for most consumers. Bonus for US labor and manufacturing.

"...it feels like a bicycle..." It's a bicycle!

I’m very much enjoying this series! I appreciate the fact you all are testing a good variety of bikes, with most not being “super” bikes. Having a bike with 105 and HED Ardenne wheels, I’m not surprised by this review. One of these days I need to buy a Ti bike!

Sorry, but internally routed cabling is just stupid for so many reasons, its been forced on us like pressfit bottom brackets

You should review a Waltly custom ti bike

Oh get over the "UNITED STATES MADE" goddamn...they still weld frames like everywhere else...these guys acting like Elves wank special sauce on some metal mined by dwarves and welded by Leprechauns or some shit. Damnnn, yes, we get it. move on.

Externally routed shifting cables? No wonder Dave is smiling in the intro!