A year round bike need to be one that encourages, inspires and excites. The Layhams is designed for these very purposes – whatever the weather or conditions, it’s ride will get you out of the door. Traditionally, a classic winter bike hails from the lower echelons, but as your go-to bike for a huge amount of hours in the saddle, we feel that you deserve better.

Stainless steel resists the worst that any winter can throw at it, whilst offering enough comfort to allow you to come back for more in the days that follow, without numbing any of the sensations that make getting out there into the lanes so engaging. With room for 28mm tyres plus full mudguards, it will weather any climate – year round, and protect you from the elements on the longest of rides. No Audax too far, no winter group ride too long.

Triple butted Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel, the 17-4PH / Carpenter Custom 630 chemistry tube set is used from tip to toe on the Layhams, with full mechanical and Di2 compatible cable routing. Like the palace, we favoured external cabling for mechanical gearing to ease on-the-fly maintenance and lubrication, but when fitting Di2 or other electronic groupsets, we wanted clean lines, so we developed the removable cable routing system that leaves no bosses in place when running a digital rather than analogue set up.

Without guards, 30mm plus tyres fit within the frame, and through long drop calipers, and a 27.2 seat tube size continues the long distance comfort compatibility. It’s simply no more than you deserve.