UK-based Hunt Bike Wheels – famed for making high-end and affordable wheels for road, cyclocross, gravel and mountain bikes – also owns Privateer Bikes, and has today announced pricing for its first complete bike and frameset.

Privateer is founded on the principle of making bikes that have got race-ready geometry and features that are developed around the specific needs of racers that are able to stand up to a season’s worth of racing abuse.

To top off that rather demanding brief, it also wanted to produce bikes that privateer racers could afford, and it has delivered with the 161, coming in at £2,989 for a very tasty looking build.

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