Trendy metal highway bikes actually don’t get a lot prettier and extra nicely put collectively than Repete Cycles’ all new R3: Cause. This third era highway bike from the Czech framebuilder is a stupendous instance of basic highway bike seems up to date with a few of the cleanest integration and inner cable routing we’ve ever seen…
Repete R3: Cause neatly built-in trendy metal highway bike
A basic trope of perfected minimalism is {that a} design is full when there isn’t a pointless function and element that might be eliminated. Trying on the new Repete R3: Cause, this highway bike is so easy and smooth. There are clearly no extraneous particulars remaining.
We’ve been following Repete since their first highway bikes inbuilt Prague again nearly a decade in the past. However they’d actually stepped up their sport round 2019. That’s once we acquired a sneak peek inside their up to date workshop of what would develop into their 2nd era Cause highway & Verne gravel bikes. However now Repete take their design and craftsmanship to the subsequent degree with this new era three R3: Cause built-in highway bike.
What’s new?
In comparison with the 2nd gen highway bike, Repete nonetheless welds and brazes the brand new Repete R3: Cause Prague, from top-tier light-weight Columbus Spirit HSS double-butted metal tubing. However now, totally built-in. Cables fully disappear. The seatpost clamp will get hidden away. A brand new detachable CNC-machined braze-on entrance derailleur clamp makes 1x, 2x & Di2 setups sleeker than ever. And even the water bottle bolt braze-ons are so low-profile that they mix into the tubes.
To make the built-in routing and inner 1 1/8″ to 1.5″ tapered headset resolution work, Repete welds a stainless cup for the higher bearing of the headset immediately onto the highest of the tapered Columbus headtube to create that multi-curve hourglass form with out shedding the power of the originally-drawn tube. It’s fairly a bit extra work that merely machining such a headtube, however Repete assures us it’s definitely worth the problem.
The seatpost clamp is a particular deal with. It makes use of a 3d-printed chrome steel factor on the high of every of the seatstays that flows neatly into the again of the cut-away seattube. Then a chrome steel bolt tightens from the non-driveside to replaceable {hardware} tucked away inside. It’s such a clear trendy adaptation of an built-in clamping idea you might discover on basic metal bikes for many years.
Oh, and on the identical time, Repete provides the R3: Cause extra tire clearance to tackle rougher roads. Now there’s room for as much as 35mm tires. Whereas on the identical time, they shave a pair millimeters off the already brief chainstays.
Tech Particulars & Geometry
The Repete R3: Cause is a efficiency highway bike handbuilt within the Czech Republic from the most effective metal out there. It options totally hidden inner cable routing. And it’s suitable with digital shifting groupsets solely – both 1x or 2x. Repete calls it the proper mix of “rigidity, sturdiness and really distinctive consolation“. All with basic attractiveness and trendy performance.
The Cause includes a threaded T47 backside bracket, flat mount disc brakes, a stainless dropouts for 12mm thru-axles, a elegant stainless chain hanger contained in the seatstay, and a basic 27.2mm seatpost for consolation & type.
Repete R3: Cause – Pricing, choices & availability
Repete sells the brand new Cause frameset for 5600€, out there in 6 inventory body sizes (50-60cm). For that you just get the body and a full carbon ENVE Highway In-Route fork painted to match within the RAL shade of your alternative, plus all of the common {hardware}. Frameset lead-time is roughly 10 weeks.
Built-in routing headset & stem are apparently further. Repete may even construct you up an entire Cause highway bike with the element spec of your alternative. Or you will get a body and construct it up via certainly one of their retailers.
Should Watch: Contained in the Foundry
On a aspect be aware – nicely they’re part of the brand new bike too – we haven’t shared this video earlier than. But it surely’s nice. Repete has the chrome steel dropouts of the Cause and the Verne, funding solid regionally within the Czech Republic – about an hour from their workshop. For Repete, customized solid dropouts have been core factor of a correct handmade bicycle body. And a little bit of an emblem of success. So, they labored laborious to make it occur. After which, they documented the method of growth. So, they take us all alongside for the journey, all the best way contained in the foundry to the precise casting.
Take pleasure in.
