Chris Froome's Factor Ostro VAM – first look
We t💯ake a look at the Israel Start-Up Nation 𓂃leader's new bike

For 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome, 20🌜21 brings a welcome fresh start and an opportunity to put the difficulties and se⭕tbacks of the last year behind him. Like many, 2020 is probably a year that Froome will likely choose to forget.
With a disrupted race calendar and a difficult recovery from a career-threatening crash at the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné, he was unable to display the performance that we have seen in previous years from the four-time 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France winner.
Last summer it was announced that Froome would be leaving the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ineos Grenadiers, the team that he had ridden with for the last 11 years and repeatedly achieved some of the highest accolades in cycling. The 35-year-old signed a long-term contract with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Israel Start-Up Nation and is set to lead the ISN 2021 Tour de France campaign and, if succꦿessful, a fifth victory.
A new chapter with a new team also means a new bike. Froome has raced 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pinarello's for the last 11 years of his career in which he has achieved seven Grand Tour victories. For the next two years, he will be riding Factor Bi꧒kes who signed a three-year contract with Israel Start-Up Nation in 2020.
Factor Bikes, An English brand based in Norfolk, will supply the team with four bikes, OSTRO VAM, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:O2 VAM Disc, the ONE Disc 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:aero road bike and the SLiCK Disc for Time Trials.
Froome will be riding Factor's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new OSTRO VAM frame in a size 56cm. The OSTRO VAM is one of many do-it-all lightweight yet aero road bikes, designed to rule across all race scenarios. Notably, the frame features NACA tube shapes and dropped stays ꧅amongst other de🥀sign features for better efficiency through the air.
Factor tube optimisation has meant that the OSTRO is claimed to almost match the ONE frameset in aerodynamics. This hasn't comꩵe at a weight penalty with the frame weighing in at a claimed 780g for a size 54cm and is able to be built to match the UCI weight limit. Froome will be racing on disc brakes as Factor doesn't offer any rim brake frame options.
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Along with a new bike comes new components and kit sponsors as well. The team bikes will run Factor’s in-house brand Black Inc who will supply wheels, seatposts, bars and stems. Drivetrain is Shimano’s Dura-Ace Di2 groupset with 4iiii providing power metrics and CeramicSpeed bearings and OSPW for improved efficiency. The rest of the kit comes from Selle Italia Sa🐭ddles, SwissStop Brake Pads and Maxxis tyres. The wheel and tyres available will give Froome the option to run tubeless however it's not confirmed what set up he will choose to race on.
Beyond the bike, ISN will be wearing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:team kit produced by I🍷sraeli company Jinga, wa♔rming up and training on Elite trainers and using Hammerhead Karoo 2𓆉 computers.
Froome is set to make his Israel Start-Up Nation debut aboard his new bike at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta ao Algarve in early February๊. His appearance at the five-day race in southern Portugal will be his first since 2012, with the summit finishes of the Alto da Fóia and Alto do ♛Malhão lying in wait.
- Frameset: Factor OSTRO VAM
- Front brake: Shimano Dura-Ace with Swissstop brake pads
- Rear brake: Shimano Dura-Ace with Swissstop brake pads
- Rotors: SwissStop Catalyst
- Brake/shift levers: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Front derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Rear derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace with CeramicSpeed OSPW
- Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace 11-30
- Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Crankset: Shimano Dura-Ace with 4iiii power meter Size:175
- Chainrings: Oval chainrings
- Bottom bracket: Ceramic Speed
- Wheelset: Black Inc. 30 tubeless
- Tyres: Maxxis High road 25mm
- Handlebars: Black Inc Integrated Barstem 130 - 38
- Handlebar tape: Black Inc
- Stem: Black Inc Integrated Barstem
- Computer mount: Black Inc/Hammerhead
- Pedals: Shimano Dura-Ace PD-R9100
- Saddle: Selle Italia Nuvos Boost Evo
- Seat post: Factor (OSTRO)
- Bottle cages: Elite Superleggero 2.0
- Computer: Hammerhead Karoo 2
- Seat height (from bottom bracket at centre): 79.4cm
- Bike weight: TBC