£7,500.00 – £9,600.00
The REAP Vekta is an aero-road bike with next-generation frame performance. It’s faster, smoother, and radically stiffer. You’ve never ridden a bike like this.
All of our bikes are handmade to order so will ship within 6-8 weeks of ordering. If you would like us to build your bike for you with your own parts, please enquire at info@reapbikes.com prior to purchasing to discuss. For international customers, please also contact us before purchasing.
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WE MAKE BIKES THE WAY THAT ENGINEERS AT
OTHER BRANDS WISH THEY COULD.
“The REAP Vekta is a UK-made aero-road bike with next generation frame performance. It’s more efficient from every angle: faster, smoother, and radically stiffer. You’ve never ridden a bike like this.
The Vekta is made for racers and road riders who want more – more stiffness, speed, comfort, precision, and response.
The Vekta is our idea of what an out and out racing bike should look, feel, and ride like. We knew we could make a class-leading aero-road bike by developing the form, materials and our top-secret
construction method pioneered for our Vulcan tri bike. The Vekta is not only super-fast and smooth, it’s also radically stiffer than anything out on the market today.
You don’t know what you’ve been missing.
ENGINEERING FIRST.
COMPROMISE NEVER.
– Immense frame stiffness dramatically increases power transfer efficiency
– Highest grade of carbon fibre used in the cycling industry
– True monocoque construction, 100% made in the UK
– REAP trade secret lay-up methodology radically boosts performance
– Carbon fibre moulding used for ultimate precision
THE BEST,
OR NOTHING AT ALL.
The Vekta is one of the very fastest aero-road bikes in the world. During development,
the Vekta delivered results in both wind tunnel and velodrome testing that put it on par with top
time trial bikes, never mind its own category. Reducing drag to this extent requires every element of
the bike to be honed.
– Wind-tunnel proven speed
– Truncated aerofoil tube profiles
– Wheel-hugging downtube and seat-tube
– Dropped seatstays and wide stance fork
PERFORMANCE THROUGH
PURE ENGINEERING.
True efficiency requires a total system approach. There’s no point being stiff and aero if
the rider then wastes energy being beaten up by the road surface. We went to great lengths to
ensure that the Vekta is exceptionally comfortable for an aero-road bike and that it filters out the
most energy-sapping frequency of road vibration.
– Engineered to save you energy
– Carbon fibre lay-up tuned to damp vibration
– Pencil seatstays soak up bumps
– Dropped seatstay cluster boosts seat-tube compliance
– All while delivering lateral stiffness 12% better than the Pinarello Dogma F12
| Size | 50, 52, 54, 56, 58 |
|---|---|
| Colour | REAP Orange, Gunmetal Grey, Storm Blue, Sea Green / Black, Sprint Blue / Black, Hyper Green / Black, Custom |
| ?? | Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, SRAM Red AXS |
| Wheels | Parcours Wheels, Enve Wheels |
Engineered carbon:
materials & method
Because attacks and sprints place such great loads on road race bikes, we drew on the engineering of our Vulcan tri bike to make the Vekta massively stiffer than any rival. We used the technology that made a beam bike ride like a road bike to make a road bike ride better than any before. We achieved this in two ways: material selection and construction method.
Carbon fibre comes in many grades and, as with everything, the best fibres are more expensive. At REAP, all materials are selected by engineers, not accountants, and the Vekta is made with a blend that is over 80% ultra-high modulus Toray M40J unidirectional fibre. That’s a vastly higher percentage and grade than most manufacturers use in their top models.
Our raw material cost is around 50% higher yet the Vekta is very competitively priced; it’s a reinvestment that we can make because we sell direct to you and, unlike the vast majority, we don’t outsource production – we are our own factory. Expert deployment is crucial to get the best from these materials and that’s where our 25 years of composite engineering experience are invaluable. The carbon fibre lay-up is intuitive to us.
The performance of the carbon fibre lay-up is boosted significantly by our trade secret manufacturing method, a hugely effective innovation that’s unique to REAP. We can’t tell you what it is, but we promise you will feel the difference it makes.
As a true monocoque, the Vekta is made in a single piece, whereas mass-produced bikes are made in a number of pieces and then joined. Our way is more difficult, but the result is an optimised frame, free from parasitic weight – mass that is made necessary by compromised design and doesn’t add value.
Every element of the Vekta is designed for maximum performance. Sure, there are slightly lighter aero-road frames, but none that come close to the way the Vekta feels. We chose to invest a little frame weight to achieve a huge increase in stiffness which results in levels of steering precision and power transfer efficiency you’ve never even dreamed of. We know that you’ll feel it as soon as you stand on the pedals.
