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  "description": "Deep wheels, further aero refinements, and a prototype One-like fork",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-14T13:15:35.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I’m not sure what it says about me or the race, but as I sat watching the live stream of Santa Vall gravel this morning, I repeatedly caught myself doom scrolling through the distraction device rather than actually watching the race. Be it attentional fragmentation, hyper-stimulation, whatever reason my brain now craves the dopamine hit, but in this case, it might actually have paid off.\n\nAs I scrolled the nothingness, none of which I can actually remember now a mere ten minutes later, a reel or a story popped up from David Millar.\n\n _Is that a new Ostro Gravel?_\n\n_That is a new Ostro Gravel!_\n\n_WTF are those wheels?_\n\n_Feck, they’re like 65 mm deep._\n\nThe gratification is immediate with this one. As I dug deeper, first through Millar’s Instagram stories from the Santa Vall start line, then Romain Bardet’s feed, and that of Factor Racing, I soon realised this isn’t just a new Ostro Gravel (OG), but clearly still a prototype that Bardet and Magnus Bak Klaris are testing.\n\nRomain Bardet shows off the new fork during recon.\n\nRight at the end of a reel posted by Factor yesterday is a quick shot of Bardet standing astride his new OG (above) with a fork that looks almost identical to the wide-stance fork on the _new Factor One (don’t call it radical) aero road bike_.\n\nIt's quite the update, compared to the old, or existing, model.\n\nThe old/current Ostro Gravel model, versus ...... the new prototype with rider Magnus Bak Klaris pre-race in Girona.\n\nA story Millar posted from the start line shows Bardet and Bak Klaris on the front row and both aboard the new OG – but without that wide-stance fork. Still, the most notable updates are up front and are clearly designed to improve the aero efficiency of the platform.\n\n### This post is for subscribers only\n\nBecome a member to get access to all content\n\nSubscribe now",
  "title": "Spotted: New Factor Ostro Gravel prototype and wide-stance fork",
  "updatedAt": "2026-02-14T13:15:42.629Z"
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