Gallery: Mike Woods' beautiful watercolour Factor Ostro VAM for the Tour de France
This fresh paint scheme is being used by t🌱he whole team for the Tour

Mike Woods is a 38-year-old former Canadian champion, three time Vuelta a España stage winner, twice a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France stage winner, and has ridden for Israel-Premier Tech since 2021. After bothering Ineos to bring you a gallery of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:G🐽eraint Thomas' final Tour de F🍌rance bike, I then went to pester IPT, who were ♚happily based in the same caꦬr park.
Despite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Factor's latest, crazy prototype being pride of place on the company stand at Eurobike, I wasn't permitted access to photograph it in more detail. I was, however, handed Mike Woods' bike, fresh for the Tour with a brand new switch-out paint scheme. The usual team paint has been replaced with an optic white base, over which blue and pink alcohol inks have been blown to create unique paint schemes for the wꦇhole team, except for Jake Stewart, who will be decidedly les🧸s jazzy on his all black hyper aero machine.
Woods' machine, a Factor Ostro VAM, is pretty by-the-book, with a mix of FSA, Shimano, and Black Inc (Factor's in-house componentry brand) throughout. He is using a brand new Selle Italia SLR saddle, though, slammed all the way forward on the rails. It's maybe a bike that leans towards aero rather than the true all-rounders like the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Specialized Tarmac SL8 and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pinarello Dogma F, but unless it's very steep, we likely won't see any riders opt for the lightweight O2 VAM.
As a bonus, taken across a full yaw sweep, we found the Ostro VAM to be one of the best-performing WorldTour bikes in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:our own wind tunnel testing.
If pro bikes are your t🎀hing, then I've already brought you a fair few, so be sure to have a peruse to get a flavour of how the pros 𒆙set up their machines for the biggest race of the year.
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar's Colnago Y1Rs
- 1꧑68澳洲5最新开奖结果:Remco Evenepoel's Specialized Tarmac SL8
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结🎀果:Matteo Jorgenson's unreleased Cervélo S5
- 168澳洲5ও最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas' last-ever Tour de France bike
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tim Merlier's sprint spec Tarmac
- 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonas Vingegaard💟's unreleased 🐎Cervelo S5
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Will joined the Cyclingnews team as a reviews writer in 202🦋2, having previously written for Cyclist, BikeRadar and Advntr. He’s tried his hand at most cycling disciplines, from the standard mix of road, gravel, and mountain bike, to the more unusual like bike polo𝄹 and tracklocross. He’s made his own bike frames, covered tech news from the biggest races on the planet, and published countless premium galleries thanks to his excellent photographic eye. Also, given he doesn’t ever ride indoors he’s become a real expert on foul-weather riding gear. His collection of bikes is a real smorgasbord, with everything from vintage-style steel tourers through to superlight flat bar hill climb machines.
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