UK bikebuilder J.Laverack is taking each inventory and full customized titanium bikes to the following stage with their new AM64 additive manufacturing challenge. Obtainable for ti street, gravel, mountain, and even city bike frames, the AM64 sequence 3D-prints choose tubes, body junctions, and dropouts in titanium to provide them full design & geometry flexibility, a smooth aesthetic, and all the most recent fashionable tech options.
J.Laverack AM64 3D-printing enhanced titanium bikes
J.Laverack goes all-in on 3D-printed titanium for his or her new AM64 challenge. They’re now providing additively manufactured enhancements to each inventory and customized bike frames. Like we’ve seen of their latest Aston Martin.1R Highway superbike, 3D-printing ti junctions allow them to create a smooth built-in look, with extra standard tubes – right here welded in between.
What’s new?
The J.Laverack AM64 challenge options headtubes, backside brackets, seat clusters, and dropouts, all designed parametrically and 3D-printed with titanium additive manufacturing tech. These 3d-printed parts are designed to transition easily, when welded onto common double-butted titanium tubes for a clean look, and full integration. That lets J.Laverack provide full customized geometry, or keep on with the inventory geometry of their broad normal body sizes (44-64cm).
The AM64 tech is now supplied on all of J.Laverack’s fashions, which encompasses street, gravel, city commuter, and mountain bikes.
Tech particulars
The 3D-printed 6Al-4V titanium parts are seamlessly welded to the matching ti tubes for probably the most half. That then creates the graceful look you don’t usually discover on a steel bike.
This additive manufacturing development offers the entire Laverack AM64 sequence bikes full inside cable routing via tapered headsets. Then you definitely get a printed-in (or painted) griffin headtube badge, a threaded backside bracket, an built-in seatpost clamp, and 12mm thru-axle dropouts. (No UDH right here, however apparently it is usually an possibility for many who need it.)
Included in the usual AM64 value J.Laverack lets patrons decide full or semi-internal routing to go well with their preferences, together with the choice for dynamo wiring. Plus, you get to choose the variety of common bottle cage mounts you need, fender mounts or not, 27.2 or 31.6mm seatpost diameter, and BSA or T47 threaded backside bracket dimension. Absolutely bespoke choices embrace an AM64 titanium fork, a dynamo-ready carbon fork, custom-made body end or paint, and extra.
J.Laverack AM64 – Pricing, choices & availability
“All fashions within the J.Laverack vary can be found with AM64 which denotes each ‘Additive Manufacturing’ and the grade of titanium alloy used; Ti-6Al-4V.” Laverack will customized quantity the primary 50 AM64 frames of every mannequin on their downtube, as a particular version. That features the street R J.ACK, the all-road J.ACK, gravel GRiT, city street commuter PiLOT, and XC mountain bike CONTOUR hardtail.
Titanium AM64 frameset costs begin from £7000 / $8950 / 8265€ together with an Enve carbon fork, stem & handlebar, plus headset, seatpost, and backside bracket. It’s a bit much less for the XC hardtail at £5500 / $7025 / 6490€ with a backside bracket & Hope headset.
A person bike match at their Oakham, Rutland store and customized geometry provides on one other £500 / $630 / 585€.
And full bike builds begin at £9,745 with Shimano Di2, Ultegra or GRX.
