In his day job, Arendt van Deyk is a manager at Mercedes Benz. After work, the Stuttgart native focusses on zero-emission vehicles. The approach of his brand, founded in 2010, is to create bicycles with the highest design standards. The Purple Blast, limited to 25 units, is a perfect example of this. The frame was welded by Franconian frame builder and former SRAM engineer Georg Blaschke. Not even a second glance reveals the attention to detail that has gone into it. The fact that the holes around the bottle cage threads are internally reinforced, for example, remains just as invisible as the ingenious routing of the Di2 cables. All the more striking is the purple paintwork, which is reminiscent of the models from aluminium pioneer Klein from the nineties. The fact that the cost of the paintwork exceeds that of the frame is not without irony. After all, the stainless steel frame would manage without paint. A contradiction that is not one for van Deyk, because he sees his bikes primarily as design objects. Nevertheless, for the sake of completeness: the technical values of the 7.3-kilo bike are remarkable for a steel racer and thanks to its high-end equipment, the rather tough Purple Blast is also a real sports machine.
Price 12,800 Euro
Weight 7.2 kilos
Reference/Info www.vandeyk.de
Weight frame/fork/steering bearing** 1 .935/368/107 gram
Frame sizes*** 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62 cm
Seat/steering angle 73,5°/74°
Seat/top tube/head tube 570/570/181 mm plus 186 mm headset cap
Wheelbase/caster 990/50 mm
Stack/Reach/STR**** 578/398 mm/1.45
EQUIPMENT
Steering bearing Chris King, 1- 1/4 inch
Brakes/gears/bottom bracket Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 (10-speed; 50/34 t., BSA) Chris-King hubs/Continental Competition (tubular tyres)
Handlebar/stem Enve/Enve
Saddle/post Fizik Antares/Enve (31.6 mm)
*The frame set accounts for 40 per cent and the equipment for 60 per cent of the overall grade. The grades are calculated with all decimal places up to the final grade; however, for the sake of clarity, all grades are given with rounded decimal places.
**Weighed weights.
***Manufacturer's specification, test size bold.
****Stack/Reach: projected vertical/horizontal measurement from the centre of the bottom bracket to the top of the head tube; STR (Stack to Reach): 1.36 means a very stretched, 1.60 an upright riding position.
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