You may well recognise this bike – it's a production version of a bike that we featured last year. Back then it was known as the Guapa Urban One, but a recent rebrand means that it now holds the WIlliams brand name.
It's worth taking a look at our previous article to learn about the ins and outs of this frame and its construction (we apologise in advance for the wood puns). For those too lazy to switch tabs here's a quick recap. The Urban One is the brainchild of brotherly duo Harry and Tom Williams, it's a unique UK-made urban bike with a frame that's made from a combination of bamboo and flax.
Related: Guapa Cycles Urban One – just in
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To be honest this bike still looks quite familiar to its pre-production predecessor, so what's new? Well, the frame itself has seen an overhaul with geometry revised for what the Williams bros describe as a better fit and ride.
Titanium inserts now feature at the headset, bottom bracket and seat tube, while neat alloy dropouts make for easy tension adjustment of the belt drive transmission. Yep, just like the version before it, Williams has stuck with a Gates CDX belt drive and that's paired to the unusual but interesting Nuvinci CVP hubgear, which instead of shifting in steps like most transmissions, will instead seamlessly glide across a 360 percent gear range via a gripshift style lever.
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