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NAHBS 2016 – Gorgeous new Moots Vamoots Disc RSL road bike with 3D printed titanium dropouts & more!

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL
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35th Anniversary Moots Vamoots RSL road bike

This year, Moots turns 35, and to celebrate they’re offering up 50 of these Vamoots RSL road bikes with limited edition paint and custom ENVE wheels. They’ll be built up with Dura-Ace Di2 and a custom Fizik Aliante leather saddle. Yours for just $14,500, orders open up March 1. Each is built to order with a lead time around 12 weeks.

With a hearty congratulations to Moots, what we’re celebrating about, though, is their new Vamoots Disc RSL road bike, which takes the classic brand in a whole new direction…

35th Anniversary Moots Vamoots RSL road bike

35th Anniversary Moots Vamoots RSL road bike

35th Anniversary Moots Vamoots RSL road bike

All of the high end bits come stock, but the paint-matched frame pump adds $275 to the ticket.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

The new Vamoots Disc RSL borrows the front end of the rim brake model and adds an entirely new rear end with 3D printed dropouts. The parts, which have been in development since May 2015, are being made by I2M in the UK. It uses the flat mount disc brake standard with 142×12 thru axles. What’s striking is how smooth the design is.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

While the main frame is internally butted 3/2.5 titanium, the dropouts are 6/4 powder. Why make them this way? Because, Moots says, it would take so long to machine a piece to their specs, it would be more expensive. The 3D printed parts are also lighter, and it gives them this smooth, sculpted aesthetic you’ couldn’t get from traditional metalworking.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

An almost final version is shown here, and they expect to start shipping the bikes by June 2016.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL
The printing also allows them to easily create channels for Di2 wiring. The lower half’s end has a male design that inserts into the chainstay.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

The upper side has a rounded profile that lets them attach the seat tube at varying angles depending on frame size. They’ll make two different size dropouts to cover the full range of frame sizes.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

To go with the bike, there’s a new flat mount, thru axle fork that’s their own design. It’s full carbon and tapered 1-1/8″ to 1-1/4″ with a 12mm axle.

2016 Moots Vamoots Disc RSL

Tire clearance tops out around 700×28…it is a performance road bike, after all, not a gravel racer. Frameset starts at $5,300. Claimed weight is 3.0lb even for a 55cm frame size. Fork weight is TBD, target is around 350g it’ll use a 6mm tooled axle. (Yes, I’ll update with a photo of the complete bike soon…just wanted to get this posted quickly!)

custom painted Moots Routt Disc gravel bike

Not new, they also had a customer’s Routt on hand showing off a beautiful paint job. It’s not often a Moots gets covered in paint, but when it looks this good, it gets a pass.

custom painted Moots Routt Disc gravel bike

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Myke
Myke
8 years ago

That’s inSANE!

Raule
Raule
8 years ago

Awesome! I guess i have to quit hanging out downtown with Kent and go to the west side of town… Just kidding I only ride 650b road bikes…

Allan
Allan
8 years ago

That Vamoots is so sick, it almost makes me cry…

Robert Underwood
8 years ago

Makes you wonder when a full printed ti frame will appear on the market..

JK
JK
8 years ago

want that roadie

AlanM
AlanM
8 years ago

Wow, that is beautiful.

Ol'shel'
Ol'shel'
8 years ago

If you can 3D print anything, you should 3D print some parts that are attractive. Those look not-so-great.

Duster13
Duster13
8 years ago

Doesn’t look like an elegant solution to me. Particularly the photo of the flat mount hardware where you can see the seat stay heading down at one angle, and then the dropout 3d component is welded on and changes angle slightly. Looks cheap, not really well integrated. Sorry, but at that price range I’m expecting to see perfect lines and transitions between stays and dropouts, not something that looks like it was cookie cuttered together. But I guess if you are only using 2 different 3D molds to fit all frame sizes that’s what you end up with.

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