San Francisco based Volata Cycles has designed a new urban bike that aims to integrate everything you need for your commute into one seamless system, which is all controlled by a central brain: the “ultimate, all-in-one bike”.
Volata spec overview
- Fork: Volata carbon fork, Postmount disc, 1,5" headset
- Front hub: Shimano Alfine dynamo hub DH-S501
- Rear hub: Shimano Alfine 11 speed S705 Di2
- Tyres: Vittoria Zaffiro Pro black 700x32c
- Rims: Stan’s Notubes ZTR Grail 32 holes, aluminum rims ready to tubeless
- Front disk: Shimano SM-RT81, diameter 160mm
- Rear disk: Shimano SM-RT81, diameter 140mm
- Brake lever: Shimano Di2 Dual Control Shifter ST-R785
- Crankset: Shimano FC-S501 170mm
- Handlebar: Fizik Cyrano R5 Bull D= 31,8 mm, Alloy 6061
- Seatpost: Fizik Cyrano R5 D=31,6 mm, Alloy 7075
- Pedals: Crank Brothers Double Shot
- Bottom bracket: Shimano Tiagra BB-RS500.
- Frame sizes: S, M, L, XL
- Colour: Ice White, Moon Gray
- Weight: 23.37 lb / 10.6 kg (size )
Volata frame
We met with Volata’s co-founder and CEO Marco Salvioli at this year’s Eurobike and he gave us an exclusive run down on the bike and let us take it our for a spin. Salvioli said of the new bike, “We not only wanted to put technology into the bike with lights, turn-by-turn navigation, security features, and plenty of information immediately to hand, we also wanted the bike to be exciting to ride too.”
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The Volata’s impressive styling starts with the custom specification aluminium tubing from Dedacciai. Up front the cutaway top tube integrates into a slick CNC’d stem, which houses the bike’s brain. The full colour screen is operated by a combination of joystick built into the top of the right-hand Shimano Di2 shifter (which operates the 11-speed Di2 Alfine hub driven by a gates carbon belt) and a button on the left-hand lever.
The stem itself is available in two lengths and two angles so you can tune your ride position to be aggressive or more endurance biased.
Geometry wise Salvioli tells us, “We wanted the bike to blend the best of a great endurance bike with the flexibility of a gravel machine. So we’ve concentrated on making the Volata stable yet quick to steer and given plenty of clearance for bigger tyres to aid comfort, so you can get off of the road should you want to explore a little more.”
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