The Colombian framebuilders at Scarab Cycles had a lot of attention-grabbing bits of reports to share at MADE, most likely most attention-grabbing being their first-ever addition of carbon to basic metal building. 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 street, all-road, and gravel frames. Plus, they’ve additionally added a brand new Andes street touring bike mannequin constructed for the longest Brevet-style occasions…
Scarab Composite Damping System metal & carbon consolation
Scarab frames till now have been completely made 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 very good 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 a little bit 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 brief part on the seat cluster the place the seatstays and toptube meet, and on prime 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 preserve top adjustability.
The Scarab Composite Damping System is now accessible as an additional $800 add-on possibility on their Santa Rosa street, Apuna all-road, and Paramo gravel bikes.
Scarab Cycles all-new Andes brevet street 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 companion Eighth Hour Bike Studio. “Garcia’s experience and artistic method helped form our imaginative and prescient of what our brevet bike needs to be”, says Scarab.
Scarab crafts the brevet street touring body & fork from a mixture of premium butted metal tubes for a easy journey that may nonetheless deal with loads of abuse, utilizing extra classically-sized and thicker foremost 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 can too run 650b wheels as much as 48mm broad, too.
It options utterly exterior cable routing however inner dynamo wiring routing, a braze-on entrance derailleur mount, full rack & fender mounts, 12mm thru-axles, publish 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’ll be able to add on issues like customized paint, customized metal racks, and painted-to-match elements 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 artistic director, and paint lead. The ultimate work contains a distinctive mixture of strategies, together with watercolor, switch, paintbrush, and conventional stencil, giving the design a depth that displays Scarab’s robust attachment to the Andean mountains.”
The Condor aesthetic idea is alleged to broaden far past the bike, and Scarab will provide ‘off-bike’ objects like jerseys, t-shirts, posters & extra in the identical inventive type.
New Fractal Fruit paintjob & extra built-in gravel bikes, too
One other recent new Scarab look accessible throughout their vary is that this Fractal Fruit. Get a more in-depth take a look at that Santa Rosa street bike with the brand new Composite Damping System. The non-public journey of Scarab’s PR supervisor, the colourful block scheme makes for a motorcycle that may at all times stand out.
This one contains a glossy built-in construct with that new low-stack Wolf Tooth In-Route inner 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 totally built-in cable routing answer to their Paramo Built-in gravel bike, as nicely. 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.
