Custom Parlee Climber

It’s been a while since we featured some of our custom builds on the website, but this one built specifically for challenging climbs certainly seems worthy of being the first of a series of custom bikes to be featured on the website, especially since it’s quickly become one of my favorite looking bikes.   While this bike is immediately heading for pan flat Florida, it will ultimately find its way across the pond and into the Alps and Dolomites which is what it was purpose built for.  Obviously the bike isn’t totally finished but since it’s leaving here without tires, tubes, pedals and a couple of finishing touches, we thought it was far enough along to share.

The bike may look like it has no logo on it, but both the downtube and top tube feature ghost painted Parlee logos, which just don’t want to show themselves to the camera.   Total bike weight with tires/tubes should end up right around 13 pounds, definitely light enough to tackle some of the ultra steep climbs.  The climbs or more so the descents were the reason for choosing alloy rims over carbon and also the reason for the Sram XX rear derailleur and mtb cassette.

Parlee Z5 Build List

Image Gallery, Custom Painted Parlee Z5