The Colombian framebuilders at Scarab Cycles had various fascinating bits of stories to share at MADE, most likely most fascinating being their first-ever addition of carbon to basic metal development. Dubbed, the Composite Damping System, Scarab extends a carbon seattube from the BB up and out as a seatmast, boosting rider consolation and shedding grams from their highway, all-road, and gravel frames. Plus, they’ve additionally added a brand new Andes highway touring bike mannequin constructed for the longest Brevet-style occasions…
Scarab Composite Damping System metal & carbon consolation
Scarab frames till now have been completely manufactured from metal. However their new Composite Damping System shakes issues up, providing the choice of a carbon fiber tube changing the majority of a motorcycle’s seattube and a great portion of the seatpost.
The direct reasoning is to enhance rider consolation with the carbon tube higher suited to damp high-frequency vibrations. However a extra fashionable look and presumably slightly weight financial savings ship added aspect advantages.
What stays metal is a small seattube stub that extends up from the underside bracket joint to mount a entrance derailleur on 2x bike frames, one other quick part on the seat cluster the place the seatstays and toptube meet, and on high a metal seatmast head. In between, they bond a carbon tube into the metal body, extending up as a seatmast to fulfill the brand new head, and keep top adjustability.
The Scarab Composite Damping System is now out there as an additional $800 add-on possibility on their Santa Rosa highway, Apuna all-road, and Paramo gravel bikes.
Scarab Cycles all-new Andes brevet highway touring bike
Technically an addition to Scarab’s all-road bike household, they constructed the Andes for ultra-distance journey consolation and sturdiness. It was born out of a growth collaboration with Ronnie Garcia of Scarab’s Brooklyn, NY boutique accomplice Eighth Hour Bike Studio. “Garcia’s experience and artistic strategy helped form our imaginative and prescient of what our brevet bike needs to be”, says Scarab.
Scarab crafts the brevet highway touring body & fork from a mixture of premium butted metal tubes for a clean journey that may nonetheless deal with loads of abuse, utilizing extra classically-sized and thicker fundamental tubes vs. the oversize that dominates most fashionable metal bikes. Angel Bicycles – a framebuilder close to Scarab in El Retiro, Colombia – builds its customized metal fork.
The Andes is designed to sport full-coverage fenders, dynamo powered-lights light-weight touring racks & luggage, and to be ridden far. Optimum tires with fenders are 700c x 32-35mm, whereas max tire clearance with out is 42mm. However you may also run 650b wheels as much as 48mm large, too.
It options utterly exterior cable routing however inside dynamo wiring routing, a braze-on entrance derailleur mount, full rack & fender mounts, 12mm thru-axles, put up mount disc brakes, a threaded BB, 1 1/8” exterior headset, and a replaceable alloy rear derailleur hanger.
The customized Scarab Andes frameset begins at $4000 by itself. Then you may add on issues like customized paint, customized metal racks, and painted-to-match parts or equipment.
New Condor watercolor paint scheme
This new full Andes brevet bike construct additionally performed the clean canvas for Scarab’s new Condor watercolor paint scheme.
“The Condor Paint Scheme is a tribute to the majesty and freedom of the Andean condor. The water-color-like design is a collaboration between native artist “Washedog” and Alejandro Bustamante, Scarab’s inventive director, and paint lead. The ultimate work incorporates a distinctive mixture of methods, together with watercolor, switch, paintbrush, and conventional stencil, giving the design a depth that displays Scarab’s sturdy attachment to the Andean mountains.”
The Condor aesthetic idea is claimed to broaden far past the bike, and Scarab will supply ‘off-bike’ objects like jerseys, t-shirts, posters & extra in the identical inventive fashion.
New Fractal Fruit paintjob & extra built-in gravel bikes, too
One other recent new Scarab look out there throughout their vary is that this Fractal Fruit. Get a more in-depth have a look at that Santa Rosa highway bike with the brand new Composite Damping System. The private journey of Scarab’s PR supervisor, the colourful block scheme makes for a motorcycle that can at all times stand out.
This one incorporates a modern built-in construct with that new low-stack Wolf Tooth In-Route inside routing headset that additionally debuted at MADE. Then, paired to a 1-piece Imaginative and prescient Metron 5D ACR EVO carbon cockpit.
Scarab additionally added the absolutely built-in cable routing resolution to their Paramo Built-in gravel bike, as properly. It options the identical straight 44mm headtube, with a Wolf Tooth In-Route headset pressed in. Then paired to a carbon Enve In-Route Gravel fork and carbon Enve SES AR 1-piece all-road cockpit.
With 48mm tire clearance out again, a UDH, and eventually a T47 BB… this built-in frameset begins at $3600 together with the fork & headset.
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