Titanium and alloy Genesis bikes - Eurobike 2012

Volant and Equilibrium Ti as entry level and top-end bikes

Genesis have bolstered their impressive metal line-up with the Equilibrium Ti

Warren Rossiter/Future Publishing

Warren Rossiter

Published: August 31, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Genesis’s steel road bike line has now been joined by 2013 bikes with new top and tail price points within the range.

At the entry level, the Volant alloy road frames boast racy geometry. Affordable builds include the £649.99 Shimano 2300 Volant 00 and £799.99 Sora (without those pesky thumb levers). There’s also a Tiagra model at £999.99, and 105 coming for the high-end Volant 30.

At the top of the range is the new Equilibrium Ti. It features the same excellent geometry as the steel Equilibrium, but with a tapered head tube (with a tapered carbon fork with mudguard eyelets).

The double butted titanium Equilibrium frame also has mudguard mounts, making it a great four-seasons ride. The complete bike will retail for £2,299.99.

The new genesis volant range offers quality aluminium from just £650: - Warren Rossiter/Future Publishing

The Genesis Volant range - affordable alloys

Warren Rossiter

Senior technical editor

Warren Rossiter is BikeRadar and Cycling Plus magazine’s senior technical editor for road and gravel. Having been testing bikes for more than 20 years, Warren has an encyclopedic knowledge of road cycling and has been the mastermind behind our Road Bike of the Year test for more than a decade. He’s also a regular presenter on the BikeRadar Podcast and on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel. In his time as a cycling journalist, Warren has written for Mountain Biking UK, What Mountain Bike, Urban Cyclist, Procycling, Cyclingnews, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike and T3. Over the years, Warren has written about thousands of bikes and tested more than 2,500 – from budget road bikes to five-figure superbikes. He has covered all the major innovations in cycling this century, and reported from launches, trade shows and industry events in Europe, Asia, Australia, North American and Africa. While Warren loves fast road bikes and the latest gravel bikes, he also believes electric bikes are the future of transport. You’ll regularly find him commuting on an ebike and he longs for the day when everyone else follows suit. You will find snaps of Warren’s daily rides on the Instagram account of our sister publication, Cycling Plus (@cyclingplus).