Informed by fit data collected over three decades, the Supreme offers ‘female-specific geometry with slightly shorter top tubes and slightly taller head tubes compared to our other competition platforms’, says Steven Fairchild, Fuji’s global product manager.Ĭrucially, as per any serious race bike, the geometry has been designed around each size, as opposed to ‘simply taking one geometry and enlarging or shrinking it’, a common complaint made about many women’s road bikes, which historically have been based on shrunken down men’s frames.Īs well as incorporating light and stiff ultra-high modulus carbon fibres, each frame is laid up differently in the mould depending on frame size (unlike many brands, which develop one frame and use the same layup schedule for all sizes). At a time when some brands are ditching women-specific geometries, Fuji has stuck to its guns and focussed on creating a performance bike designed specifically for women. And about time too.īuy the Fuji Supreme 1.1 now Faster than fastįuji started its overhaul of the Supreme with the geometry. Sram’s Red eTap HRD is the kind of top-spec groupset that rarely gets an airing on women-specific bikes, and the Oval Concepts 950 Disc 50mm carbon wheels with Vittoria Corsa G+ tyres are equally mouth-watering.Ĭompared to Fuji’s men’s aero Transonic, the Supreme is allegedly 1min 19sec faster, which means this women’s bike is faster than its male equivalent. The new frame has dropped seatstays, truncated kamm-tail aero tube profiles, sharp angles wherever you look, and the geometry has been radically overhauled.
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It took two years to develop, and Fuji claims it’s the company’s fastest women’s bike yet – indeed, its fastest road bike, full stop.Ĭompared to those old bikes it is indeed a true transformation. Such is the pace of change in cycling these days. At the top of the family tree is the Supreme 1.1.
At the time, it was the second-best bike in the company’s Supreme range, and – purple butterfly paintjob notwithstanding – it was an impressive women’s race bike at a reasonable price of £1,800.īut in bike years 2015 is eons ago, and the four new bikes in the Supreme range feel like they are from another planet (and another price point).
In 2015, in the halcyon days before Trump and Brexit, I reviewed the Fuji Supreme 2.1.
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