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Latest updates from Vivente Bikes.

  • Vivente Newsletter May 2025

    Posted: June 2, 2025

    New models, frames and more upgrades New test riding Since our last newsletter (August ’24) we have done two test rides. Coordinating with the November US election we toured in Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Interesting times! That was the first ride with race gravel tyres, run as tubeless. The roads were all sealed. In January 2025 we kept these G-One R 45mm tyres and, on a wider variety of surfaces, we toured in Victoria… Read More »Vivente Newsletter May 2025

  • Vivente Newsletter August 2024

    Posted: August 22, 2024

    A tyre testing year In January ’24 we did a ride down the Murray River using 70mm Schwalbe G-One tyres, with tubes. Got one flat which would not have happened if it was running tubeless. Otherwise, we were happy with the tyres. But a lot of catsheads were developing in that river/irrigation country and a few months later it may well have been puncture-central. In July ’24 we did a… Read More »Vivente Newsletter August 2024

  • Vivente Newsletter April 2024

    Posted: May 21, 2024

    I recently completed another test ride on the border between Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. Also, should you take a spare Gates belt on your trips?

  • Vivente newsletter December 2023

    Posted: December 4, 2023

    It’s been a busy few months in the Vivente Bikes world. With all the updates to the website and our bikes, we’ve still managed to attend Eurobike and get through a test ride in Norway.

  • Vivente newsletter May 2023

    Posted: June 10, 2023

    We started shipping out from the new factory in Tasmania three months ago. This local assembly has allowed

  • Vivente newsletter August 2022

    Posted: August 27, 2022

    We are in the process of setting up Vivente bicycle assembly in Tasmania and expect to be producing six Rohloff models from the end of 2022. We will use newsletters to provide advance details about the bikes and how they may be purchased. Our Australian–New Zealand dealer networks are viewable on the website. Whilst waiting for components to arrive, we have continued road-testing and refining. The bikes were already well regarded,… Read More »Vivente newsletter August 2022

  • Vivente newsletter January 2022

    Posted: January 29, 2022

    We are out of stock of bikes. It could be late 2022 before we have stock. Many people need a bike sooner than that, but some might hang on if they know more about what we are preparing to make. That is what we want to address here. Derailleur bikes are becoming harder to support Over the last sixty years, touring bikes with derailleurs have run triple chainwheels. The middle… Read More »Vivente newsletter January 2022