Nordest provides to their inexpensive titanium gravel & all-road bike platform with a very new ti Albarda GT frameset. The driving precept was a transfer to a extra glossy, totally built-in cable routing setup for the titanium “something bike”. However on the similar time, Nordest utterly reshaped the Albarda GT with a wild pierced seat cluster design and dropped seatstays` for extra rider consolation…
Nordest Albarda GT built-in titanium gravel all-road bike
The Albarda has been Nordest’s go-to do-it-all drop bar bike for round 5 years now. Obtainable in inexpensive metal or titanium, and even stretched out MTB-inspired Tremendous Albarda evolutions for greater journey rides. However now, on this newest Albarda GT replace, Nordest hopes to construct a extra fashionable bike for the two-wheeled world traveler.
What’s new?
Nordest describes the spotlight of their new Albarda GT to be the totally built-in, hidden inside cable routing. Pairing a straight 44mm headtube to the most recent outsized press-in Chris King AeroSet 3 headset, all cables get tucked inside a classic-looking spherical tube design. It’s hydraulic brake-only however apparently suitable with mechanical or digital shift drivetrains. You may run both a 1x or wi-fi shift setup with a dropper put up or a mechanical 2x with an everyday seatpost.
Excellent seamless inside cable routing inside formally requires an ENVE stem based on Chris King. However Nordest have proven that different inside routing cockpit setups might be completed comparatively cleanly with their very own steerer tube spacers.
Past the built-in cables, it’s truly the wild-looking seattube cluster that drew in my consideration. This all new design employs an virtually horizontal toptube that extends past the seatpost – pierced by by an uninterrupted seattube. It’s a singular look. And possibly a love-it or hate-it aesthetic.
However paired along with dropped and dramatically S-curved seatstays, it ought to assist absorb gravel street buzz for a extra snug journey.
Up to date do-it-all geometry
The brand new Nordest Albarda GT is formally primarily based on new geometry. However it’s not all that far off the usual Albarda. Sticking with a 70° headtube, quick 420mm chainstays and newly steeper 75° seattube angle. Its Stack figures handle to be a bit decrease than the unique Albarda. And the body Attain figures are typically a bit longer, with out going to the MTB match of the Tremendous Albarda.
The Albarda GT is offered in 4 inventory in-betweener sizes (SM, M, ML & L) to suit riders from ~160-193cm tall (5’3″-6’4″).
Tech particulars
The brand new Albarda GT is welded from a double-butted Ti3Al2.5V titanium tubeset. It options an 3D-printed hole part of chainstay behind the crankset and an outsized threaded T47 backside bracket.
This allows you to run as much as a 46T 1x chainring or a street compact 50/34T double whereas sustaining clearance for the rear tire. Large tire clearance means you’ll be able to match as much as a 650b x 2.1″ mountain bike tire. Or go for as much as a 700c x 50mm gravel tire. That huge BB additionally lets Nordest route the rear derailleur cable and rear brake strains completely internally into the chainstays.
It options flat mount disc brakes, 12mm thru-axles, and a 27.2mm seatpost. Plus. a UDH within the interchangeable dropouts for optimum drivetrain compatibility. The body consists of a regular set of bottle bosses on the seattube, 3-pack something cage mounts on high of the down tube, a pair beneath the downtube and on high of the toptube, however no rear fender mounts apparently.
Claimed body weight for the biggest body is 1750g. And Nordest provides the titanium Albarda GT a refined matte blasted end with brushed logos.
The ti body pairs with a full carbon fork designed for the brand new GT. It has a 400mm axle-to-crown, 47/53mm offset flip chip on the thru-axle, something cage & fender mounts, plus much more tire clearance than the body.
Nordest Albarda GT – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new titanium Nordest Albarda GT is offered completely as a 2375€ frameset, together with ti body, carbon fork & King headset. However for simply 300€ additional you can too get customized geometry, in case your match falls out of the inventory sizing vary.
In both case, Nordest makes the Albarda GT to order. So, supply time is an estimated 16 weeks from the time you order, with free delivery within the EU. Loads of time to determine the remainder of your full customized gravel bike construct equipment.
