Letras
A Climber's Delight
"Designed around a single word: Delight. Letras is an unpretentious bike with one clear goal—to give the rider the purest, most enjoyable sensation on a bike. In a world where climbing is measured in watts and gradients, we’ve taken the opposite approach, amplifying the indescribable joy of finding your rhythm on the ascent while syncing your body and mind with the environment." Santiago Toro - Founder
Designed, Built, and Tested in Colombia
A tribute to the Colombian tradition of producing some of the best climbers in the world, Scarab’s lightest climbing-oriented frame was named: Letras, honoring one of the world's longest and most challenging road cycling climbs. Letras brings a masterful balance of agile ride quality with confident stiffness. A ride on a Letras will remind you of the exhilaration of conquering the mythical mountain pass.
Light and Nimble
The Letras Variants
Over the last years, we've seen some mayor changes in tech and aesthetics of bikes. Rim Brakes, Disc Brakes, electronic groupsets, wide tires, you name it! The question: Do those changes make up for a better bike? We think a better bike is the one you love, the one that makes you ride more, the one that matches your needs.
That is why we've kept the alive the previous versions of the Letras as we strongly believe that they still have a following.
Letras Disc
When designing the Letras disc, Our goal was to keep the low weight and exquisite feeling of the rim brake version. To achieve this, we kept some elements that are non standard to all disc brake bikes. Skinny rear stays, 34mm head tube and a 1-1/8 straight steerer tube. this basically transitioned the beloved DNA of the original version into a modern platform. Fitting 32mm tires and disc brakes.
Framesets start from: $3650
Letras
The Letras frameset is a super-light platform that offers an extremely refined feeling of the road. The timeless lines offer a very discrete look that will surprise you with the butter-like feeling that steel is known for.
The original version built with rim brakes can still be ordered. #savetherimbrake
Framesets start from: $3350
Pricing and Build Options
Frameset
Starting from $3.350
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Full Builds
Starting from $6.800
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Our Design Process
Custom Paint Schemes
Is there anything more personal than paint? We thought so. Colombia has given us incredible inspiration for each of our bikes, and we are ready to help you co-design them.
Custom Geometry
We are all different, not only in our tastes but also in our capabilities and body dimensions; that is why we have a custom program that will make this bike feel like it should: Perfect.
Component Selection
Components play a significant role in the result of a bike; that is why we get involved in the conversation, guiding you toward the best bike possible.
Letras Notes and Specs
Handcrafted with precision in El Retiro, Colombia, each Letras frameset is meticulously built in-house using the finest materials and techniques. This one-by-one approach ensures every bike is custom-tuned to match your riding style and needs, delivering exceptional ride quality, durability, and performance.
General Letras Specs:
- Frameset material: A mix of Italian and Japanese tubes from Columbus and Kaisei, selected for optimum ride quality, stiffness, weight, and durability.
- Bottom Bracket: BSA 68mm Bottom Bracket
- Dropouts: Thru-Axle Round dropouts (Letras Disc), QR round dropouts (Letras rim brake)
- Fork: Carbon Road-specific forks. Letras Disc (Ritchey WCS Road disc Fork), Letras rim brake (ENVE 2.0 straight steerer fork).
- Max tire clearance: Varies per model. Letras Disc (700Cx32), Letras rim brake (700Cx28 *measured).
- Cable Routing: Varies per model. Letras (std groupset routing - Internal rear brake line), Letras Rim Brake (std groupset routing - External rear brake along Top Tube)
What is Included with the frameset?
- Frame: Your frame with the geometry and paintjob selected
- Fork: fork matching the selected variant with an un-cut steerer and matching paintjob
- Headset: Matching headset to the selected variant.
- Seatpost Clamp: 28.6mm Wolf tooth seatpost clamp
- Front and rear Axles: all framesets are supplied with front and rear Thru-Axles
- Touch-up Paint: Every frameset comes with a small set of touchup paint and framesaver.
Bike Reviews
The process of a custom Letras Disc
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Climbing (Old) Letras with a Letras Disc
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Building a Climber's Dream
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Building a Super Light Steel Bike
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Get Inspired!
We have created this gallery with some amazing Letras that we have built over the years. Head there and see the unique bikes each of our riders around the world have created.
More than a gallery, we like to refer to it as "The Lookbook"
