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Vielo launches "first wireless only, 1x only gravel bike in the world"

“If you’re going to build it with a wireless group set, then why not make the frame exclusively wireless?,” Vielo asks. Its answer is the V+1 Race Edition

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.  

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition Frame

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. 

> Review: Vielo R+1 Alto SRAM Force e-Tap AXS

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. 

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition V+1 RACE Front

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. 

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition Seatstay

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.

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition Crank

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. 

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition Fork

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.

> First ride review: CHPT3 spec Vielo V+1 Strato

2022 Vielo V+1 Race Edition Mech

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

Anna has been hooked on bikes ever since her youthful beginnings at Hillingdon Cycle Circuit. As an avid road and track racer, she reached the heady heights of a ProCyclingStats profile before leaving for university. Having now completed an MA in Multimedia Journalism, she’s hoping to add some (more successful) results. Although her greatest wish is for the broader acceptance of wearing funky cycling socks over the top of leg warmers.

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MarkiMark | 2 years ago
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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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FlyingPenguin | 2 years ago
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Nick T | 2 years ago
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Who was the last startup British brand to receive this much publicity? Bowman?

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mdavidford replied to Nick T | 2 years ago
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Nick T wrote:

Who was the last startup British brand to receive this much publicity? Bowman?

Change UK?

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glp replied to Nick T | 2 years ago
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interesting reivew on Bowman by Hambini - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTDQ9vtoxTo

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Nick T replied to glp | 2 years ago
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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

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mdavidford replied to Nick T | 2 years ago
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Probably just means that one of them had a press release drop through the doors of road.cc Towers, and the other did not.

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Nick T replied to mdavidford | 2 years ago
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I suppose the days of journalists finding information to report on, rather than merely reheating what the press statement says, are long gone

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John Stevenson replied to Nick T | 2 years ago
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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.

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Nick T replied to John Stevenson | 2 years ago
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How about that, I had looked for anything on the Time frameset but nothing came forward from the site search function 

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Secret_squirrel | 2 years ago
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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.

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kil0ran | 2 years ago
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Just getting my head around Zipp deep aero wheels on a gravel frame.

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Secret_squirrel replied to kil0ran | 2 years ago
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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. 

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philhubbard replied to Secret_squirrel | 2 years ago
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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

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Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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I like.

Glad they've not gone for those ludicrous seat stays again!

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