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NAHBS 2018: Unique road, gravel & mountain bikes from T-Lab & TºRed

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018
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It seems the offspring of Canada’s now gone Guru Cycles keep popping up. First, HIA Velo purchased all of the carbon fiber manufacturing equipment and moved it to Little Rock, Arkansas. Now, the former titanium team has rebooted their craft as T-Lab, using NAHBS to show off their first model. Any guesses what genre?

Yep, it’s a gravel bike!

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

The new T-Lab R3 gravel bike uses ovalized and flattened titanium tubing to claim frame stiffness that’s 30% greater than round tube bikes. And it looks really good.

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

The seat tube is not just flattened, it’s also heavily shaped to make room for a front derailleur.

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

The chainstays use more traditionally rounded tubes, but end in a rather unique dropout design. The dropout connector holds a bolt-on axle adapter that’s one-piece with the rear brake mount.

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

T-Lab titanium gravel bike from NAHBS 2018

The driveside part is one piece with the derailleur hanger. They also make a road bike, and we’re guessing there’s more to come. Check them out at T-Lab-Bikes.com.

TºRED STEEL & TITANIUM BICYCLES

TºRed continues to impress us with the breadth of offerings. In addition to a gravel/cyclocross bike and carbon road bike we’d seen before, they were showing off the new superlight Aracnide Acciaio OOL steel disc brake road bike.

The complete bike came in at just 14.57lb (6.60kg) using a mix of lightweight parts. The steel tubing and their dropped seatstay design make this a race-ready ride that’s also comfortable for fondos and longer distances.

The bar, stem and wheels come from Toot Components, part of TºRed.

We saw this steel TT bike at Eurobike, check out the details on that here, and get the low-down on their carbon disc brake covers here.

We saw their Hedera titanium mountain bike built up as a do-anything drop bar adventure bike at Eurobike last fall, using a wild Japanese handlebar that’s worth a look. For NAHBS, they kept it trail ready with a unique rear brake setup…

The frame is flat-mount ready, but until the component manufacturers catch up, they simply fitted a SRAM Red road caliper to their mountain bike levers. Check the full range at TRedBikes.com.

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TheKaiser
6 years ago

I dig on that T Red passive suspension stuff. It was pretty impressive at the show, pushing on the saddle lead to a noticeable flexing of the seat tube, as you’d see on a Domane, but due to the dropped stays it also generates actual wheel travel. It’s one of the few cases where you can actually see the “vertical compliance”, that so many companies claim to have designed into their bikes, with the naked eye.

Tony Brandotti
6 years ago

@bikerumor / Tyler

That is an X3 gravel bike from T-Labs, not the R3.

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6 years ago

those welds on the t red head/downtube, ewww!

Chuck Point
Chuck Point
6 years ago

Steel TT bike??? WHERE ARE THE RACK MOUNTS!?

VeloKitty
VeloKitty
6 years ago

> those welds on the t red head/downtube, ewww!

I’d be afraid to ride that one.

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