Nordest provides to their inexpensive titanium gravel & all-road motorbike platform with an absolutely new ti Albarda GT frameset. The riding idea used to be a transfer to a extra swish, totally built-in cable routing setup for the titanium “the rest motorbike”. However on the identical time, Nordest utterly reshaped the Albarda GT with a wild pierced seat cluster design and dropped seatstays` for extra rider convenience…
Nordest Albarda GT built-in titanium gravel all-road motorbike
The Albarda has been Nordest’s go-to do-it-all drop bar motorbike for round 5 years now. To be had in inexpensive metal or titanium, and even stretched out MTB-inspired Tremendous Albarda evolutions for larger journey rides. However now, on this newest Albarda GT replace, Nordest hopes to construct a extra fashionable motorbike for the two-wheeled global traveler.
What’s new?
Nordest describes the spotlight in their new Albarda GT to be the totally built-in, hidden inner cable routing. Pairing a instantly 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 it seems that appropriate with mechanical or digital shift drivetrains. You’ll run both a 1x or wi-fi shift setup with a dropper submit or a mechanical 2x with an ordinary seatpost.
Highest seamless inside of cable routing inside of formally calls for an ENVE stem in keeping with Chris King. However Nordest have proven that different inner routing cockpit setups will also be completed moderately cleanly with their very own steerer tube spacers.
Past the built-in cables, it’s in truth the wild-looking seattube cluster that drew in my consideration. This all new design employs a nearly horizontal toptube that extends past the seatpost – pierced thru by way of an uninterrupted seattube. It’s a novel glance. And possibly a love-it or hate-it aesthetic.
However paired at the side of dropped and dramatically S-curved seatstays, it must lend a hand absorb gravel street buzz for a extra relaxed journey.
Up to date do-it-all geometry
The brand new Nordest Albarda GT is formally in accordance with new geometry. But it surely’s no longer all that a ways off the usual Albarda. Sticking with a 70° headtube, brief 420mm chainstays and newly steeper 75° seattube perspective. Its Stack figures set up to be somewhat not up to the unique Albarda. And the body Achieve figures are typically somewhat longer, with out going to the MTB have compatibility of the Tremendous Albarda.
The Albarda GT is to be had in 4 inventory in-betweener sizes (SM, M, ML & L) to suit riders from ~160-193cm tall (5’3″-6’4″).
Tech main points
The brand new Albarda GT is welded from a double-butted Ti3Al2.5V titanium tubeset. It options an 3-d-printed hole segment of chainstay in the back of the crankset and an outsized threaded T47 backside bracket.
This permits you to run as much as a 46T 1x chainring or a street compact 50/34T double whilst keeping up clearance for the rear tire. Giant tire clearance manner you’ll have compatibility as much as a 650b x 2.1″ mountain motorbike tire. Or opt for as much as a 700c x 50mm gravel tire. That massive BB additionally we could Nordest course the rear derailleur cable and rear brake strains fully 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 max drivetrain compatibility. The body comprises a regular set of bottle bosses at the seattube, 3-pack the rest cage mounts on most sensible of the down tube, a couple beneath the downtube and on most sensible of the toptube, however no rear fender mounts it seems that.
Claimed body weight for the most important body is 1750g. And Nordest offers the titanium Albarda GT a delicate matte blasted end with brushed trademarks.
The ti body pairs with a complete carbon fork designed for the brand new GT. It has a 400mm axle-to-crown, 47/53mm offset turn chip on the thru-axle, the rest 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 to be had completely as a 2375€ frameset, together with ti body, carbon fork & King headset. However for simply 300€ further you’ll additionally get customized geometry, in case your have compatibility falls out of the inventory sizing vary.
In both case, Nordest makes the Albarda GT to reserve. So, supply time is an estimated 16 weeks from the time you order, with loose transport within the EU. A lot of time to determine the remainder of the complete customized gravel motorbike construct equipment.