Issue has been teasing a fat-tire Ostro Gravel iteration of their premium Ostro aero street racing bike because it began popping up on the skilled gravel racing circuit earlier this yr. However now it’s lastly right here – a premium race-ready aerodynamic carbon gravel bike impressed by elite World Tour street racing – and dropping into a motorcycle store close to you inside the subsequent week…
Issue Ostro Gravel aero racing gravel bike
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The aero street Issue Ostro VAM has already cemented a spot for itself within the professional street peloton. And the Issue LS gravel bike already delivered a stable performer within the light-weight gravel bike sphere. So, as soon as their Israel-Premier Tech workforce riders began bleeding over into the gravel racing scene a race-ready gravel bike was positive to observe. Now Issue’s aerodynamic expertise in street & time trial bikes makes the leap to gravel roads too, with this new Issue Ostro Gravel aero gravel race bike.
The outcome unsurprisingly appears loads just like the road-going Ostro VAM, simply beefed up for larger tire clearances, basically making the LS extra aerodynamic to tackle a mixture of surfaces from asphalt & hardpack to quick racing gravel roads, too!
What’s new?
The important thing shift from the road-going Ostro is in fact the 45mm tire clearance (much more than the LS!) and enhanced sturdiness, whereas nonetheless hitting a body weight of simply 900g (54cm, painted). However Issue additionally assures that its aerodynamic tube shaping has been optimized particularly for the decrease speeds of gravel racing relative to the Tour de France stage-winning Ostro VAM.
Geometry can also be gravel race-specific, however leaning in the direction of a quicker perspective to ship the products not solely with extensive gravel tires, but additionally massive quantity all-road tire setups. Issue particularly developed the bike’s fork Path “on the marginally quicker dealing with facet for gravel use, given the bike’s racing focus, whereas prioritizing head tube angle when choosing fork rake. This results in a fast-handling gravel bike on 43mm tires and an equally satisfying and exact all-road machine on 32s, with no low-speed wheel flop.”
Tech particulars
The Issue Ostro Gravel is constructed across the aero carbon gravel body with a mixture of additional resilient TeXtreme fibers combined in with premium Toray carbon & Nippon Graphite pitch-based fibers, and paired to a brand new Ostro ‘Vast Stance’ gravel fork giving each body & fork as much as 700 x 45mm tire clearance.
The brand new frameset incorporates a 1.5″ CeramicSpeed SLT headset with all cables routed inside, and a T47A threaded CeramicSpeed backside bracket, diminished with Wheels Manufacturing 24mm spacers to get BBRight compatibility.
The disc brake gravel bike will get 12mm thru-axles, flat mount disc brakes, and below downtube & toptube cage mounts, plus a Restricted Lifetime Guarantee.
Ending out the built-in 1-piece aero carbon cockpit, Issue ideas their home model Black Inc for the gravel-specific Aero Barstem combo with a “gently-flared” compact 80mm attain, 120mm drop. Plus a set of 1498g Black Inc 34 hookless gravel wheels
Issue Ostro Gravel – Choices, Pricing & Availability
The brand new Issue Ostro Gravel is on the market in two inventory paint jobs – Bare Grunge or White Grunge – or you will get it from Issue with a customized paint end choice. You too can get it both as one among two totally different frameset choices – $5500 / 5450€ set with body, fork, seatpost, barstem, CeramicSpeed BB & headset OR $7500 / 7430€ in a equipment that additionally features a set of Black Inc Thirty-4 wheels – or just a few full bike builds.
The highest bike is obtainable as an entire premium spec construct with a SRAM Purple AXS Xplr 1x groupset with 44T x 10-44 gearing and an influence meter for $9800 / 9710€. And “entry-level” Power AXS construct begins at $8600 / 8520€ full.
The brand new Issue gravel bike is successfully in the stores now, though the primary bikes will begin displaying up in Issue seller bike retailers from the top of this most – September 2022 – or by the top of subsequent week.
