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For 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome, 2021 brings a welcome fresh start and an opportunity to put the difficulties and setbacks of the last two years behind him. Like man🍨y, 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.

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Last summer it was announced that Froome would be leaving 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 aꦍnd i💙s set to lead the team's 2021 Tour de France campaign and, if successful, collect his fifth yellow jersey.   

A new chapter with a new team also means a new bike. Froome has raced on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pinarello bikes for the last 11 years of his career in which he has achieved seven Grand Tꩵour victories. For the next two years,🐭 he will be riding Factor Bikes 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: The OSTRO VAM, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:O2 VAM Disc, the OඣNE Disc aero b♌ike 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. This is one of many do-it-all lightweight yet aero road bikes, designed t🗹o rule across all race scenarios. Notably, the frame features NACA tube shapes and dropped stays amongst other design 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 come 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. With the Black Inc ☂30 wheelset, Froome's bike weighed just under 7kg, the switch to the deeper 60mm wheelset will have added a little extra weight although it's likely there have been some further adjustments to bring the bike closer to the UCI weight limit. 

For Froome, the biggest change on his new bike is the move to disc brakes as Factor doesn't offer this bike with any rim brake frame options. He has already expressed his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:concerns surrounding road disc brake 🅘technology although he should be in good hands with Shimano Dura-Ace levers and callipers set up with SwissS♍top pads and rotors.

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. The drivetrain is Shimano’s current 11sp Dura-Ace Di2 groupset with 4iiii providing power metrics which Froome will be familiar with, however, efficiency has been boosted with CeramicSpeed bearin🎶gs and an OSPW (Over-Sized Pulley Wheel). The rest of the kit comes from Selle Italia Saddles and Maxxis tyres, of which Froome will be using Maxxis' ICA exclusive Yalla Academy tyre with HYPR-S compound and a 170tpi casing. 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 prodꦺuced by Israeli company Jinga, warming up and training on Elite trainers and using 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Hammerhead Karoo 2 computers.

Froome made his Israel Start-Up Nation debut aboard his new bike at the UAE Tour and, despite still working towards reaching peak racing condition, was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:feeling positive about his per🍒fඣormance. Froome's next test will be the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta a Catalunya, which gets underway on March 22.

• 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
• Bottom bracket: Ceramic Speed
• Wheelset: Black Inc. 60 tubeless
• Tyres: Maxxis Yalla Academy 25mm
• Handlebars: Black Inc Integrated Bar/stem, 38cm
• Handlebar tape: Black Inc
• Stem: Black Inc Integrated Bar/stem, 130mm
• Computer mount: Black Inc/Hammerhead
• Pedals: Shimano Dura-Ace PD-R9100 
• Saddle: Selle Italia Novus 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