If road racing and fast road riding are your pursuits, the Campeón deserves your attention. Crafted from custom-drawn scandium with carbon seatstays and an Alpha Q CS20 carbon fork, the Campeón aims to deliver race speed with as much comfort as possible. To ensure you spank your buddies on the local club ride the frameset receives two major updates for 2007.

Like the Primero we introduced last year, the Campeón moves to a sloping geometry. This fit-friendly change tightens up the frame, increasing stiffness even further (the Campeón is Salsa’s stiffest road bike). By making the frame stiffer, wasted energy is removed, and your pedal strokes translate directly into forward momentum. Stand up and sprint and the bike responds immediately. The sloping geometry also means use of a longer seatpost, which in turn means enhanced comfort as the seatpost flexes instead of the frame.

Secondly, we’ve added new chainstays. Our flat-shaped stays are designed to remain laterally stiff thereby transmitting power into moving the bike forward. While they do this they direct road shock upwards into the bump-dissipating carbon seatstays. It is all part of our effort to make the Campeón not only the fastest, but also the most comfortable, frameset it can be.