Saturday's steely ambition for Dan Craven

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The Dura-Ace equipped bike under Dan Craven at this Saturday's HTC Smithfield Nocturne will look somewhat similar to the machines of his Rapha Condor Sharp teammates lined up alongside but it will differ in one important respect. It will have a frame made from, shock horror, steel in a prototype configuration that aims to wring out the last excess gramme of weight without losing all the attributes that Craven loves in a steel frame.

When Cycling Weekly asked when the Condor boys last raced on steel there was a shuffling and an "ummm"  because it's been a few years since steel gave way briefly to aluminium and then carbon-fibre as found on the latest Leggero team issue bikes.

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