FSA’s AGX lineup will get extra aero for gravel bikes and long-distance “alt highway” adventures, and extra comfortable with vibration damping stems. They have been additionally displaying off their large array of built-in headset choices, new aero wheels and cockpit items for highway and tri, and some different bits value seeing.
FSA Aero Gravel Cockpits
The brand new high stage Okay-Drive Loop AGX handlebar and carbon fiber aero extension improve from their already extraordinarily ergonomic Okay-Wing AGX handlebar. With sculpted grooves and indents for a number of hand positions, each the Okay-Wing AGX and Okay-Drive Loop AGX provide very snug hand positions, however the brand new Loop bar goes wider with a large 25º flare for a 50mm offset on the tops (double the Loop’s 12º flare and 25mm offset).
The bar is available in 42/44/46cm widths with 25º flare, 100mm drop, and 70mm attain. Weight is 320g.
It contains the brand new bolt-on AGX Loop aero extension, which has a spherical nostril for simple accent mounting, and included pads and cradles give your forearms someplace to relaxation. Mixed, they need to present long-distance gravel racers and tourers every thing they want.
For alloy lovers, the brand new Professional-Wing AGX builds bar and loop right into a single piece for a 472g ergo/aero cockpit. Additionally in 42/44/46cm widths, it shares the identical 25º flare, 50mm offset on the drops, 100mm attain, and 70mm drop. The drops have a traditional rounded profile and spherical tubes, although, missing the extra shaping of the carbon model.
The brand new VAS (Vibration Absorbing Stem) makes use of swappable polyurethane bushings to damp harsh vibes earlier than they attain your arms. They arrive in 70a (grey), 80a (darkish grey), and 90a (black) durometers that take in as much as 47% of vibration. Aftermarket stems will ship with all three, OEM placements will get the medium density insert.
The VAS stems are available 80/90/100mm lengths with -6º rise and have a 31.8mm clamp diameter. Claimed weight is 291g.
Imaginative and prescient’s Metron aero wheel lineup expands with new 37mm deep climber wheels and a 91mm deep aero wheel for TT and triathlon pursuits. These add to the moderately mild Metron 60 and 90 that launched in 2021. At the moment, these two changed barely shallower wheels whereas additionally dropping weight, and we’ve reached out to FSA for extra particulars on these wheels (replace as we get it).
All three get their Floating Ratchet Ring hubs, which disengages the toothed rings when coasting for much less noise and drag.
Headset integrations, e-bike system & different enjoyable stuff
FSA is a monster in the case of OEM placement. Their headset providing goes method past the more and more in style ACR built-in system for getting cables and hoses stealthily into the body. Different issues they make embrace:
- HBS – Headset Block System to restrict whole bar rotation
- RAS – Attain Alter System permits a number of headset positions for adjustable head angle and attain
- CBS – Management Bike System steering damper helps forestall velocity wobble
- CBS – A self-centering model that returns the steerer to the middle should you let go
With their ACR system getting spec on so many bikes, they’ve began providing a greater variety of customized cone spacers and high caps to mix into the design of main manufacturers:
One dimension positively doesn’t match all, so it’s good to see FSA providing extra customized match choices for his or her clients. They’re obtainable for choose Trek, Specialised, BMC, Cannondale, Cervelo, and Pinarello bikes for now.
Whereas many manufacturers will spec their very own spacer with no matter inventory handlebar comes on the bike, should you wished to improve to an FSA handlebar or stem, these customized cone spacers hold the clear, built-in look whereas opening up extra cockpit choices.
The brand new KFX SIC ICR (Steady Built-in Cockpit, Built-in Cable Routing) mountain bike handlebar combines bar and stem with full inner routing for the following era of MTBs. It makes use of their ACR headset system to run every thing contained in the body for a really clear cockpit, and contains an out entrance computer-and-accessory mount that’s hooked up to a spacer that matches underneath the bar.
Accessible in 65/85/105mm efficient stem lengths, all are 780mm huge. Efficient stem angle is -12º, with 9º backsweep, 5º upsweep, and 5mm rise. Claimed weights from 265g to 315g.
Their WE digital shifting system lastly will get the TT bull horn bar-mounted brake levers with built-in wi-fi shift buttons. They embrace the junction field that goes within the stem and are appropriate with any 22.2mm OD bars.
The FSA System is their built-in e-bike system. It may be had with an inner downtube battery, an exterior water bottle-sized battery, or each…and each are 252Wh. The hub motor is the excessive tech bit, that includes a built-in velocity and torque sensor that requires no extra, exterior sensors to muddle the bike, and it has very low friction so it ought to journey regular when you’ve exceeded the 25km/h help restrict.
Whereas it seems to be like a bolt-on system, body integration required for management pod, which will get embedded into the highest tube, and a charging port that may go just about wherever. And wires are run internally, so ports are essential. The entire system weighs simply 3.98kg.
Unrelated, additionally they have a greater variety of 12-speed appropriate chainrings for his or her cranksets now, too.
