Vitus has long been associated with racing. In its original French incarnation back in the 1980s, Sean Kelly powered lugged skinny aluminium Vitus bikes to victories in races such as Milan-San Remo.
In its new post-2011 guise – now as part of Northern Ireland’s Chain Reaction Cycles – Vitus sponsors the An Post Sean Kelly cycling team. Not surprisingly we expected a pretty racy number and the first glance of the Venon VR’s clean, slender lines seemed to bear that out. It was only when we started riding that we got a sense of what the VR is truly about.
A pleasant place to sit
‘Smooth’ is the first word that springs to mind, with ‘floaty’ joining it in the Venon’s big book of cycling adjectives. It rapidly became a very pleasant place to spend a few hours, and we revelled in its ability to keep going at a brisk rate over the rolling terrain of England's South West.
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The Venon VR is a comfortable ride, but the bar is excessively stiff
The Venon really comes into its own on ascents where the quality Fulcrum wheel and Continental tyre pairing eases you up climbs in comfort. It’s not quite so impressive on the descents, where the smoothness that’s so welcome everywhere else means you feel slightly disconnected when you’re really pushing hard into an apex, and we never felt as confident with the Venon when we were really riding on the limit. But for long days out, and events like gran fondos or sportives, the Venon would make an excellent companion.
Disc brakes by design
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