Launched yesterday, the Velo Orange Rando frameset has made a highly anticipated return, and it’s sporting a whole host of updates and refinements. Learn more about the all-road Rando’s ground-up redesign and how your can pre-order one at a discount here…
After an extended period away, the Velo Orange Rando frameset is back, and it’s been completely redesigned with modernized road-endurance geometry that’s more in line with today’s road bikes, replaceable rear dropouts, springy new thin-walled steel tubing, a wishbone seat cluster, fresh paint, and more. Although the Rando is a little outside of what we’d typically cover here on the site, I actually own one of the original Rando prototypes from 2009, so I’ve been eagerly following the development of this new version.
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In Velo Orange’s words, the new Rando “makes for an absolutely sublime all-day and all-night lightweight adventurer.” The fork has an elegant French-style bend that offers a timeless look while absorbing road chatter, and the new modular rear dropout system makes switching between drivetrain configurations a breeze, whether you want to run a wireless 12-speed group or a simple singlespeed/fixed-gear drivetrain. Rando frames will ship with vertical 130mm dropouts for standard rim brake wheels and a set of 120mm rear-facing dropouts for track wheels.
The frame will clear relatively narrow 700 x 38mm tires without fenders, and it’s intended to be used with 47-57mm reach caliper brakes (Velo Orange’s Long Reach Brakes are excellent). It has three sets of water bottle bosses (two in the main triangle and one under the downtube), mid-blade front rack mounts, fender mounts, and fully external cable routing. The Rando also has a 1 1/8″ threadless fork, 68mm bottom bracket and takes a 27.2mm seatpost. The frame weighs in at 4 pounds 9.5 ounces and the fork is 2 pounds 5.1 ounces.
The Rando is offered in a single metallic “Brook Trout” paint scheme and four sizes (S-XL) to fit riders from around 5’0″ to 6’6″ tall. Through the August 6th pre-order window, framesets are available on a first-come, first-served basis for $795 (down from $925).
Learn more or purchase a frameset over at Velo-Orange.com.
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