Aston Martin reveals stunning bespoke bicycle collab

"Working with the team at Aston Martin has unlocked new ideas and innovations, the application of which has created a bicycle more advanced than anything currently available on the market," says Oliver Laverack, co-founder of J.Laverack Bicycles.

"Working in collaboration with Aston Martin, we have not only taken our titanium bicycles to new heights but have also unlocked true innovation within the cycling industry, creating a bicycle with unparalleled levels of craftsmanship and performance engineering. Every component is designed to be part of the whole and to marry perfectly with the adjoining elements, achieving an unsurpassed degree of integration, which lays the foundation for the J.Laverack Aston Martin .1R's boltless design."

The J.Laverack Aston Martin .1R features faultless clean lines, where bicycle owners would normally expect to find fixings at the stem or seat post. The integrated four piston brake calipers are clean sheet design and required the development of bespoke testing equipment. As a result, there is not a single exposed cable or hose visible on the whole bicycle.

Applying innovations from outside the normal sphere of bicycles, everywhere you look on the .1R there are new solutions. Developed in collaboration with the most innovative designers from the high-performance automotive world, the .1R not only adopts design mastery from Aston Martin's supercar and hypercar programmes but also benefits from the pinnacle of road bicycle engineering.

"The J.Laverack Aston Martin .1R is essentially a titanium hypercar on two wheels," says Marek Reichman, Executive Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at Aston Martin.

"The simple genius is how we've fused the engineering advancements throughout the bike with a purity of performance design to deliver a viscerally exhilarating riding experience. The result is a distinctive form, born through tradition and technology and handcrafted using only the most advanced materials, befitting the pedigrees and forward-thinking natures of our two British companies."

Each owner will be invited to Aston Martin's headquarters in Gaydon where a full fitting will take place with the founders of J.Laverack, providing limitless opportunity to customise their uniquely personal .1R. Customers can select the exact same colour palettes and trim choices available on Aston Martin's cars, providing the opportunity to pair car and bike, should they wish to.

But everyone will be able to specify their dream version of a .1R courtesy of the integration of the road bicycle into Aston Martin's online configurator.

As well as the saddle and handlebar tape, Aston Martin's digital tool also allows users to individually specify the colour of the tubes, lugs, forks, stem, seat post and handlebar drops. If desired, the carbon fibre can also be left bare in order to show off the beauty of the material. Accents such as the bottom bracket cups, brake calipers, and the brake disc centres have a special ceramic coating that can be picked out in bronze or muted in black.

When a customer takes delivery of their custom J.Laverack Aston Martin .1R, they will notice that each bike and its components such as hubs, cranks and frame are all numbered, forever linking them as part of a whole. The bicycle will also be supplied with its own case, either in aluminium or carbon, which will double as both a travel solution and somewhere to display the .1R appropriately. Each .1R travel case will also include a track pump that matches the bike, featuring Alcantara or leather covered handles, and sits securely inside the protective cases.