Azmi's Argonaut RM3 Supernaut

Quietly Dangerous. 

A restrained carbon build that proves performance does not need to shout.

Some bikes are carefully planned. Others feel like they were always meant to happen.

Azmi already had two road bikes he loved. Both of them were made of steel (Samson Illusion & Samson Advance) and equipped with mechanical groupsets. By most standards, that would already be more than enough. But curiosity has a way of creeping in.

As he puts it, maybe he just wanted to know how it feels to have three super cool road bikes.

Jokes aside, this build marked something new. For the first time, Azmi was stepping into the world of carbon and electronic shifting. Something he had never experienced before after years of riding steel bikes with mechanical drivetrains.

And if he was going to do it, he was going to do it right.

Argonaut felt like the natural choice.

Founder Ben Farver began his journey building custom steel bikes in 2007, drawn to the ride quality and character that steel offered. But the pursuit of performance eventually led him to carbon and eversince then, Argonaut has since become known for pushing what a carbon road bike can feel like.

For Azmi, it almost felt like a rite of passage. After years on steel, the next step forward would be carbon which, Argonaut represented that transition perfectly.

What made this particular RM3 even more special was how it came about.

This was not a long process. Azmi was clear that he did not want to wait for a bespoke frame to be built. As it happened, we had the RM3 Supernaut sitting in the shop and it just happened to be his size.

Sometimes the timing lines up in ways you just do not foresee and Azmi called this RM3 as a destined fate.

The build direction was equally deliberate. Azmi wanted the bike to feel quiet and restrained. No loud colours, no flashy decals. Something muted and understated.

But beneath that calm exterior, always ready to create chaos on the road.

Component choice followed a similar logic. His other two bikes already ran Shimano and Campagnolo, so the RM3 would complete the set. The holy trinity, in a sense.

SRAM would take its place here, rounding out the experience and giving Azmi his first taste of electronic shifting.

From the moment the bike came together, the ride experience made an impression.

“S-U-B-L-I-M-E,” he says — the kind of ride that makes you question everything you thought you knew about your previous bikes.

High praise, especially coming from someone who has spent years riding steel.

In the end, the RM3 wasn’t about chasing trends or overthinking the process. If anything, Azmi’s advice to anyone considering a build like this is refreshingly simple.

"Stop making bike purchases complicated.

If you like it, get it. Everyone will have their own opinions — but at the end of the day, the bike only needs to make sense to the person riding it.

And sometimes, the right bike is simply the one that was already waiting for you."

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