VELO ORANGE PIOLET is an adventure touring frame and is designed primarily for off-pavement touring including dirt and gravel riding.
Not everybody wish to race, some of us prefers to take the time to enjoy the landscape and life around them riding their bike. VELO ORANGE (headquarters is in Annapolis, Maryland USA) has developed relaxed bikes that are comfortable on a century ride.
The VELO ORANGE PIOLET frame is made of Cromo 4130 Double Butted with a pretty rigid mono-stay at the rear. Available in 26" for small sizes (XS and S) and 29" for the bigger size (M, L and XL) you can easily set up 650B+ if you wish. It is design as an off road touring bike with exceptionnal tire clearance up to 700x2.4" - 650b x 2.85" so around 70mm large. You can easily mount rack and if you wish...
SOBRE VERSATILE, the steel gravel bike from the French brand sobre (designed in Beujolais) was presented as a prototype in July 2015, shown at the ROC D'AZUR in October 2015 and started to be sold End November 2015. I have already talked about it, but now i have many more pictures - details - , provided by SObre (thank you) to show you.
The brand SOBRE created in 2007, has for target to propose steel frame that can fit the main use of most of riders....and with a really pretty attractive budget ! the SOBRE VERSATILE is one of them !
The GRAVEL SOBRE VERSATILE is made of Cromo 4130, Double Butted for the front triangle (2180g in Medium). The geometry is definitely orientated for a cyclo-cross use, the bike is quite first firm but pretty easy to handle. The headtube is the us...
GENESIS DAY ONE is an urban cross utillity bike from GENESIS, the frame is only dedicated to a SingleSpeed use (or with a geared-hub). The first ever Day One is produced in 2001 and is also the first bike developped under Ridgeback brand before GENESIS become officially founded in 2006. It is a small British brand based in the United-Kingdom. They are pretty famous for their steel bikes. Their global range now cover road, mountain, cyclo-cross, gravel, kids and fat bikes.
GENESIS is sponsoring independent riders but it is also the bikes supplier of the Madison Genesis team (UCI Continental level). Madison is their distributor.
The GENESIS DAY ONE is made of Genesis MjölnirDouble-Butted Cromoly (Cromo 4130 designed to Genesis specifications) in replacement of the usual Reynolds 520 th
What a nice and long honeymoon for Sandrine and Florent riding their VAGABONDE TANDEM over the world. Together from now more than 6 years, living in Provence (South of France), they have left their country (FRANCE) in August 2015 and they plan to be back home a year later in August 2016 after what should be around 20.000 kms. What a great trip on a steel tandem !
Let’s go for a world tour !
Florent and Sandrine wanted to travel before starting a casual life by buying a house and founding a family. They are not new in cycling, they already did a part of the road Eurovélo6 with around 80km per day.
Why a world tour ? To change of view everyday ! To go and meet different cultures, to break the "routine" and not to know where you will end at night and even less the day after.
They ha
SALSA CYCLES DEADWOOD 29+ is an XXL offroad touring ( 29+ drop bar steel mountain bike). It is just...huge !!! SALSA CYCLES is part of the group QBP (Quality Bicycle Products) that also owned, for the most known : SURLY, CIVIA, All City.....The brand is a synonym of adventure and the SALSA CYCLES DEADWOOD can take you far far away to a new playground. And if you plan to mount a front triangle framebag...you ll maybe never come back from what supposed to be your vacation !
SALSA CYCLES DEADWOOD 29+ is made of Cobra Kai Cromoly Tubeset (Cromo 4130 specificity engineered for Salsa). This set of tubes is used on SALSA bikes that are designed carry a big charge or needs stiffness like their tandem POWDERKED, the world touring bike MARRAKESH or this XXL DEADWOOD ! The frame is equipped...
GENESIS COLUMBIA ROAD (RD) is the brand new city bike from the GENESIS BIKES urban range 2016. Officially founded in 2006 under the name GENESIS, it is a small British brand based in the United-Kingdom that designed its first bike the "Day One" (still in the catalogue) in 2001. They are pretty famous for their steel bikes. Their global range now cover road, mountain, cyclo-cross, gravel, kids and fat bikes.
GENESIS is sponsoring independent riders but it is also the bikes supplier of the Madison Genesis team (UCI Continental level).
The GENESIS COLUMBIA ROAD is made of Genesis MjölnirDouble-Butted Cromoly (Cromo 4130 designed to Genesis specifications) in replacement of the usual Reynolds 520 that allow the GENESIS COLUMBIA RD to have a good ratio price / equipment without sacri
SALSA CYCLES MARRAKESH is an exploration - camping bike ready to carry you and your bags till the end of your own world tour.
SALSA CYCLES is part of the group QBP (Quality Bicycle Products) that also owned, for the most known : SURLY, CIVIA, All City.....The brand is a synonym of adventure and the SALSA CYCLES MARRAKESH is an unstoppable bike designed for fully loaded, rugged exploration.
The frame of the SALSA CYCLES MARRAKESH is made of Cobra Kai Cromoly Tubeset (Cromo 4130 specifictly engineered for Salsa), and it is mostly used on SALSA bikes that will have to carry a big charge like their tandem POWDERKED and the world touring bike MARRAKESH the one we are talking about right now. The bottom bracket is lower (77mm) and the chain-stay longer that what y...
VELO ORANGE CAMARGUE is a touring frame that is perfect to ride on unpaved roads. Not everybody wish to race, some of us prefers to take the time to enjoy the landscape and life around them riding their bike. VELO ORANGE (headquarters is in Annapolis, Maryland USA) has developed relaxed bikes that are comfortable on a century ride. NO HURRY !The CAMARGUE is about it. It is named after a quiet natural area / region in the south of France : http://www.camargue.fr/ wellknow in France for its white horses "Chevaux camarguais" (see decals on the top tube) and its strong black bulls. Made of Cromo 4130 Double Butted, it is design like a tank, a tourer ready for unpaved roads or a bikecamping vehicle: it can carry a substantial load for long ride over days. It has stouts tubes and long...
SUNN 5016R was firstly presented at the ROC D'AZUR 2015. It is part of the 2015 revival of the famous french brand Sunn launch in 1988 by Max Commençal (now owner of Commencal Bicycles). This brand is, since 2014, part of the Groupe Intersport. The SUNN 5016R is the unique bike made of steel for this 2016 range.
The SUNN 5016R wheel size is 650B and it is built around a CROMO 4130 Double Butted Steel frame which have the specificity to be equipped with sliding dropout. The 5016R is definitely a multi-purpose bike : sold equipped with a gear system it ll be easy to turn it to a singlespeed. It also mean that the SUNN 5016R is not a fully racing orientated machine, but mostly a versatile trail bike. The headtube is tapered and the fork mount on the bike is a 120mm : Fox 32 Performa
SingleBE E.TYPE - is a pretty stylish E-BIKE commuter made of Cromo SAE4130 Double Butted. This bike, Handmade in CZECH Republic, is only equipped with one front brake Shimano SLX in 160mm because the hub cannot accept disc mount and customer probably did not wanted cantilever for the look of the bike. It features an integrated carbon cockpit (120mm stem, 720mm handlebar), an Aluminium-carbon fork inserted in the 44mm headtube. The saddle is the C15 produced by Brooks.
The E-TYPE is a singlespeed and as now many of the commuter bikes produced by SingleBE, it is using a "Carbon GATE" Belt transmission system. But this time it is not coupled to a internal gear hub system. For the first time, this commuter is electric and the belt is linked to a 250w electric engine with specific f...
