Foldable Bikes Party: SpeedX Leopard: an entry-level aero road bike that seems too good to be true

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We’ve just been shown the SpeedX Leopard, and it kinda seems too good a deal to be true. A carbon aero race frame with full internal cable routing, an integrated GPS computer with various built-in sensors, Shimano 105 groupset and more for just… £1,000 / $1,399? That can’t be right, surely.

In case you’ve forgotten, this is the bike that smashed its Kickstarter funding goal of $50k a few months ago, on the back of claims that it’s the “only smart aero road bike with the ability to help you train and track your progress in real time”. What we didn’t realise at the time is just what a stunningly good deal it’ll be – if it lives up to those claims, and rides well.

The SpeedX range

The SpeedX team visited BikeRadar in our Bristol offices this week, bringing three bikes with them: the SpeedX Leopard, Leopard Pro and Mustang. The Leopard Pro is a higher-spec version of the Leopard road bike, and the Mustang is a hardtail mountain bike. All three are in production now, and we’ll have our hands on review samples soon.

The Leopard frame weighs 1.2kg and was designed with aero testing in the Harbin Institute of Technology’s wind tunnel, in northeastern China. It comes with full internal cable routing, hidden aero brakes and an impressive lifetime frame replacement guarantee.