As things stand, the difference in weight between a brand’s aero road bike and climbing bike can be relatively small, meaning there’s often little to be gained by switching from the former to the latter. Given professional riders often push their body weight to the limit in pursuit of performance, it should perhaps come as no surprise many also demand the same of their equipment. Regardless of how big or small the performance gains are, though, many riders just want a lighter bike for the ‘vibes’. When the 2021 Giant TCR launched, Giant claimed this enabled it to create the lightest set of carbon fibre sheets ever assembled for one of its bikes.
Based in Xiamen, China we have the advantage of being at the heart of the carbon fiber industry. Given a bike weighing at least 6.8kg doesn’t in itself guarantee its safety, it begs the question of whether there is even a need for a minimum weight limit. However, your bike typically makes up such a small percentage of the overall system weight, that a slightly lighter bike doesn’t move the needle much. Aston Martin draws parallels between the bicycle design and manufacturing process and its top-end range of hypercars. Owners will undertake their fitting at Aston Martin’s headquarters in Gaydon, UK, as well as undertake a guided specification process with Aston Martin’s design team. The finished bikes will all be numbered, with a special travel and display case supplied with each .1R, along with a handmade wooden tool case.
Brands have always taken great pleasure in declaring their bikes “illegally light”, but if the minimum weight limit goes, so does the viability of this as a marketing strategy. Given Simon Clarke appears to care enough about weight to make do with just a single bottle cage on his bike, we expect plenty of pros would jump at the chance to use lighter, rim-brake equipped bikes for certain races. The next problem is that the bike seat is hard and uncomfortable, if you only ride short distances it isn’t a problem, but if you do between 2 through 5 miles you will start to feel it. I normally stand up, crank the gears up to a harder setting and peddle away so I don’t do much sitting, but if you prefer to sit down and peddle you will have a sore bum by the time you get home; in short, I recommend buying another seat.
The hubs, in turn, have been designed specifically for this bicycle and produced from high-strength aerospace aluminum. That innovative approach takes inspiration from beyond the realm of conventional two-wheelers, drawing from the designs of high-performance cars. It doesn’t just adopt design principles known in the bicycle industry but also benefits from Aston Martin’s know-how in the supercar and hypercar programs. This can be seen, for example, in the pierced stem, which mirrors the side strake of the Aston Martin DB12. Customers will have a choice between 12-speed groupsets from companies like Shimano, Campagnolo, and Sram Red. The mountain bike drivetrain includes components from SRAM’s SX Eagle lineup, such as a 1×12 gear setup combined with an electric bike-specific single-click trigger shifter.
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I tried to unscrew it and snap it in place, but the machine that put the nuts on really did a job and got that thing on really tight, so I decided to leave it alone. The last and probably the biggest problem was that there was no quick release hyper bicycles for the bike seat, it was missing from the set. Even when we tried contacting both the seller and manufacturer they didn’t want to just ship a part out, they instead wanted us to ship the entire thing back and gives us a whole new bike set.
If minimum safety standards were incorporated into the UCI’s technical regulations, then a minimum bike weight limit could be rendered unnecessary. First, the move from rim to disc brakes added a few hundred grams (or more in some cases) to most road bikes. This year has seen the launch of a number of lightweight, all-rounder road racing bikes that can hit the UCI’s minimum weight limit of 6.8kg. Owners of the .1R will be invited to visit Aston Martin’s headquarters in Gaydon, where they will experience a personalized fitting session with J.Laverack’s founders. Furthermore, an integration with the automaker’s online configurator allows anyone to design their dream bicycle.
The J.Laverack Aston Martin .1R combines 3D-printed titanium lugs and sculpted carbon-fibre tubes, resulting in a design that appears ‘visually boltless’ but which is also ultra strong and light. Carbon-fibre finishes can be left bare or painted to the customer’s specification (matching bicycles to existing cars is expected to be a popular choice). Serial 1, the electric bicycle brand spun off from Harley-Davidson’s own internal e-bike development, has just unveiled its new SWITCH/MTN electric mountain bike. The announcement comes just a few short weeks after the brand unveiled its BASH/MTN e-bike.