Keanu Reeves’ Arch Bikes launches sportier 1s

California-based Arch Bikes, based by Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger, has launched its second mannequin, the 1s. The hand-built bikes are tailor-made to the preferences of every rider and have been likened by Jay Leno to a Pagani in two-wheeled kind. 

Arch describes the 1s as a efficiency cruiser, nevertheless it leans a bit extra closely on the efficiency facet. As Hollinger says, you sit on it, not in it. There are parts which can be unabashedly American, like a monster V-twin. The S&S downdraft fuel-injected motor constructed to Arch specs is a whopping 2.0 liters and churns out 122 pound-feet of torque on the rear wheel (The corporate didn’t disclose brake horsepower figures).

It is a model of identical motor that underpins Arch’s first bike, the KRGT-1. That one was extra of a cruiser, impressed by Reeves’ customized Harley-Davidson constructed by Hollinger, the bike that put the duo on the trail to establishing Arch. However in each instances, surrounding the rumbling V-twin coronary heart is a great deal of carbon fiber, billet aluminum and a completely trendy design. It is what a Harley could be if it wasn’t caught catering to a child boomer previous and allowed to evolve.

Although the KRGT-1 and 1s share a typical visible language, the 2 are decidedly completely different bikes. The chassis geometry is totally completely different, using a shorter wheelbase and single-sided swingarm. A decrease entrance and faster steering ought to make the bike extra agile than the KRGT-1, and the rider sits at a extra leaned-forward place to benefit from it.

The 1s incorporates a distinctive billet aluminum spine and facet plates, with skinny carbon fiber helps comprising the remainder of the body. The impact is one the place the engine nearly looks like it is on a pedestal for show, with the remainder of the bike draped round it. Because of the composite, dry weight is available in at solely 563 kilos. 

The suspension is designed with Öhlins fork and shocks, whereas a Bosch ABS system with a six-pot caliper on the entrance wheel brings 17-inch carbon fiber wheels to a standstill. Somewhat than conventional gauges a digital show informs the rider. An adaptive LED headlamp with dazzling beginning animation illuminates the street forward, whereas a slim, built-in LED taillight accentuates the tail because it comes to some extent on the rear. 

A trick piece comes within the type of the gasoline door, which opens upon twisting the “A” within the Arch brand. It opens upward and again revealing the filler to the carbon fiber tank that additionally integrates the air consumption. The impact is like one thing out of The Matrix or Cyberpunk 2077, simply to call a few properties one of many co-founders has appeared in.

The worth for all this bespoke building does not come low-cost. It stickers at $128,000 per construct. You could possibly begin a reasonably killer assortment of traditional and efficiency bikes with that type of dough. For a choose few, although, a bespoke V-twin that appears like one thing out of a William Gibson novel will provide an expertise distinctive sufficient to warrant the worth.

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