Kreuza
Kreuza takes care of the parts people rarely look at: the cockpit, the bottle, the computer mount. It all starts with the Apex one-piece carbon handlebar, and the rest is designed around it.
Kreuza takes care of the parts people rarely look at: the cockpit, the bottle, the computer mount. It all starts with the Apex one-piece carbon handlebar, and the rest is designed around it.
Kreuza was born in Xiamen, in south-east China, from the meeting of two men from the bike world. Tony Tong founded Elitewheels and remains its product engineer; Mian Chan, a UCI-registered professional rider and former technician for a UCI team, founded the crankset brand Cybrei. Their idea was not to make yet another frame, but to take care of what people rarely look at: the cockpit, the bottle and its cage, the computer mount. Kreuza designs and makes its products in Xiamen.
The Apex handlebar is a handlebar and stem in a single piece of T800 carbon. The rest of the range exists around it: 45 top caps to fit it to the race frames on the market, a computer mount that bolts into its interface, and a gravel version, the Apex GR, which takes aerobars. The brand shares its website and customer service with Evolve, whose CIMA frames take the Apex handlebar without an adapter.
Kreuza claims 4.5 W less drag for the Apex handlebar's NACA profile in CFD simulation, and 2.6 W saved at 45 km/h in the wind tunnel for the Slice bottle against a round bottle. Aero power follows the cube of speed: at 30 km/h, the bottle's gain drops to around 0.8 W. These parts therefore count in a fast group and in racing, on top of what the frame and wheels already gain. On the road, TOPSPEED, Korea's oldest amateur team, rides this equipment.
Because its parts work together: a handlebar, its top cap, its mount and its bottle designed as one, by people who already know carbon and racing. They complement the Elitewheels wheels and Evolve frames already in the catalogue.
Kreuza designs and makes its products in Xiamen, China, drawing on the city's research and production workshops.
Not with the stock top cap: you need the Kreuza Apex adapter for your frame, chosen from 45 references, model and year included. The Evolve CIMA and CIMA GR don't need one, as their top cap is designed for the Apex and Apex GR.
The Apex for road and racing, with its NACA profile. The Apex GR for gravel: 15 mm of rise, 14.6° of flare and a moulded aerobar interface.