WINSPACE M6 road frameset

The WinSpace M6 is the brand's aero road frameset, the successor to the C5 Aero: frame, fork, aero seatpost and hardware, to be completed with an integrated bar. It is aimed at the racer who rides in a group and pays for the wind on every turn at the front, with 32 mm of clearance for a tyre that soaks up the road.

Aero is decided in volumes nobody looks at. The fork blade goes from 58.23 to 68.28 mm deep, the head tube from 83.96 to 90.16 mm, and the seatstays end in a dovetail. WinSpace claims 8.9 W saved at 48 km/h over the C5 Aero, validated at the Fuji Aero Performance Centre. After six iterations and more than 100,000 fatigue cycles, the frame comes in at 900 g in M, unpainted.

Drag grows with the square of speed, and the power needed to overcome it with the cube. Hence a gain quoted at 48 km/h: at 35 km/h, about 3.5 W of it remains, which you won't notice on a recovery ride. The rest is simple to maintain: a T47 bottom bracket threaded into a moulded aluminium insert, a UDH hanger, fully internal cables with FSA's ACR system. The seatpost comes in 320 mm on XS and S, 360 mm above that.

WinSpace moulds the M6 in its own workshop in Xiamen and X-rays every fork before shipping. For MAAKE, it brings a measured aero gain, built on standards a workshop can maintain without exotic tools.