British bike brand Vielo has launched a Race Edition of its V+1 gravel bike, featuring its lightest Alto frameset (880g) that’s been engineered entirely around 1x and designed exclusively for a wireless groupset. This is as specific as you can go, and as a result, Vielo promises no compromises.
Vielo positions the V+1 as a fast race performance gravel bike, and follows the same design ethos applied to its R+1 Alto road bike.
For a neat and fully optimised finish, the new V+1 has no unnecessary holes for cables. All the brake hoses have been routed internally through the brand’s own stem bar combo.
The curved, flat, wide seat stays ensure the V+1 can take up to 50mm tyres and retain the comfort the bike has become known for.
The chainstay and bottom bracket join is symmetrical. Vielo has done this to optimise the frame entirely for 1x, while retaining the ability to run 700 x 50mm tyres without a dropped drive side chainstay.
The extra wide down tube to bottom bracket shell also shares the same 1x concept as Vielo’s road R+1 bike.
Vielo continue with an 1”1/8 to 1”1/2 tapered head tube, now with an hourglass shape.
The fork increases the tyre clearance at the front, while improving the fork stiffness and optimised for flat mount brakes.
Now, let's talk about that lovely Acid Red to Orange fade paintjob - from afar the fade may look like a simple spray transition, but if you look closely you’ll find that the fade between the two colours is achieved through an explosion of tiny ‘V+1’s. Vielo clearly cares about the details.
This is not the only V+1 to feature an interesting finish. Last year the bike brand teamed up with David Millar’s clothing brand CHPT3 to produce 50 limited edition models of the V+1 in one-of-a-kind paintjobs by Millar’s personal bike painter Eduard.
The V+1 Race Edition is available in three builds:
- SRAM Red eTap XPLR to SRP at £9,999
- SRAM Force eTap XPLR to SRP at £7,499
- SRAM Rival eTap XPLR to SRP at £5,899
www.vielo.cc
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Lovely looking bike. Still not convinced about 1x for an all-rounder. Despite what Vielo say, achieving small gaps and a wide enough spread for both fast road and steep offroad is still compromised. By the way, those Zipp 303 Firecrests are designed as a gravel wheel, I have them on my custom Enigma Echelon, and I had the frame manufactured for wireless, so no gear cable holes, but didn't integrate the brake hoses.
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Who was the last startup British brand to receive this much publicity? Bowman?
Change UK?
interesting reivew on Bowman by Hambini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTDQ9vtoxTo
It's curious that there's no mention of the launch of a new Time gravel frame this week, made in their own factory to high standards of carbon manufacture in a unique braiding process, but there's a whole post dedicated a Chinese catalog job losing a cable hole
Probably just means that one of them had a press release drop through the doors of road.cc Towers, and the other did not.
I suppose the days of journalists finding information to report on, rather than merely reheating what the press statement says, are long gone
You mean this new Time gravel frame covered in a story two days before the one you're commenting on?
Do try and keep up.
How about that, I had looked for anything on the Time frameset but nothing came forward from the site search function
Um.... Didn't 3T do this with the Exploro years ago? I know they did with their Road Bike thought they did for Gravel too.
Just getting my head around Zipp deep aero wheels on a gravel frame.
I won't share a picture of my Gradient then!
A gravel bike with aggressive Geo and with 2 sets of wheels is a great all rounder.
Me neither, I've ended up with 3 sets now!
65mm wheels with 28's for most of my riding
45mm wheels with 32's mainly for winter but occasionally windy days and with lots of climbing
Set of alloy wheels with 42's for gravel and cross in winter
I like.
Glad they've not gone for those ludicrous seat stays again!