The A team Vaast A/1
The unique selling point to Vaast’s well-priced gravel bikes is the material that’s being used to build them. Fellow American company Allite produces a magnesium-alloyed tubeset called Super Magnesium (well you wouldn’t expect false modesty from a US brand, would you?). It’s an alloy that was originally designed for use in the world of defence and aviation but used on the A/1 by Vaast.
Magnesium alloys have been used in bikes before. Initially with the radically designed Kirk Precision in the late Eighties and early Nineties, created by one-time Ford employee Frank Kirk. The odd-looking frame was apparently inspired by the bumper on the Ford Sierra. Italian racing legends, Pinarello, also dabbled with magnesium back in 2004 with a
