Aston Martin partners with J. Laverack to launch 1R featuring aluminium disc brake callipers

J.Laverack, a titanium bike manufacturer, has teamed with Aston Martin to create the 1R, a unique carbon road bike. The callipers for the disc brakes are composed of aluminium with a heat-resistant ceramic covering. The design has nearly no visible fasteners, hoses or wires on the outside and enables the customer to choose parameters such as crank length, bar/stem width and length down to the millimetre.

They contain four pistons instead of two, a characteristic generally reserved for downhill mountain bikes. They're titanium nitride-coated and pair with unique 160mm semi-floating rotors with ceramic coatings in the middle.

The bike is packed in a specialised box made of either aluminium or carbon material, designed to facilitate transportation and suitable presentation of the bike. The extent to which it can withstand contact with airport baggage handlers is debatable, but it does have a track pump that corresponds with the bicycle, with handlebars coated in leather.

“Developed with input from high-performance automotive designers, the .1R is the most bespoke, most advanced and most engineered bicycle ever created,’ and ‘the bicycle celebrates the shared passion for cycling that originally introduced Aston Martin’s founders Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford more than 110 years ago,” added J.Laverack.