FSA’s AGX lineup will get extra aero for gravel bikes and long-distance “alt highway” adventures and is comfier with vibration-damping stems. It additionally confirmed off its huge array of built-in headset choices, new aero wheels and cockpit items for highway and tri, and some different bits price seeing.
FSA Aero Gravel Cockpits
The brand new top-level Okay-Drive Loop AGX handlebar and carbon fiber aero extension are upgraded from its 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 320 g.
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 with all the pieces they want.
For alloy lovers, the brand new Professional-Wing AGX builds a 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 basic 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 up as much as 47% of vibration. Aftermarket stems will ship with all three, and 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 291 g.
New Imaginative and prescient Metron Wheels
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 gentle Metron 45 and 60 that launched in 2021. At the moment, these two changed barely shallower wheels whereas additionally dropping weight, so these could possibly be changing the 30 and 81 wheels. We’ve reached out to FSA for extra particulars on these wheels (we are going to replace as we get them).
All three get its Floating Ratchet Ring hubs, which disengage the toothed rings when coasting for much less noise and drag.
Headset Integrations, E-Bike System, and Different Enjoyable Stuff
FSA is a monster in the case of OEM placement. Its headset providing goes approach past the more and more common ACR built-in system for getting cables and hoses stealthily into the body. Different issues it makes embody:
- HBS – Headset Block System to restrict whole bar rotation
- RAS – Attain Modify System permits a number of headset positions for adjustable head angle and attain
- CBS – Management Bike System steering damper helps forestall pace wobble
- CBS – A self-centering model that returns the steerer to the middle if you happen to let go
With its ACR system getting spec on so many bikes, it has began providing a greater variety of {custom} 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 custom-fit choices for his or her prospects. They’re out there for choose Trek, Specialised, BMC, Cannondale, Cervélo, and Pinarello bikes for now.
Whereas many manufacturers will spec their very own spacer with no matter inventory handlebar comes on the bike, if you happen to wished to improve to an FSA handlebar or stem, these {custom} cone spacers maintain the clear, built-in look whereas opening up extra cockpit choices.
The brand new KFX SIC ICR (Secure Built-in Cockpit, Built-in Cable Routing) mountain bike handlebar combines the bar and stem with full inside routing for the subsequent technology of MTBs. It makes use of its ACR headset system to run all the pieces contained in the body for a really clear cockpit and contains an out-front computer-and-accessory mount that’s hooked up to a spacer that matches below the bar.
Accessible in 65/85/105mm efficient stem lengths, all are 780mm vast. The efficient stem angle is -12º, with 9º backsweep, 5º upsweep, and 5mm rise. Claimed weights from 265 g to 315 g.
Its WE digital shifting system lastly will get the TT bull horn bar-mounted brake levers with built-in wi-fi shift buttons. They embody the junction field that goes within the stem, and are suitable with any 22.2mm OD bars.
The FSA System is its built-in e-bike system. It may be had with an inside downtube battery, an exterior water bottle-size battery, or each … and each are 252 Wh. The hub motor is the high-tech bit, that includes a built-in pace and torque sensor that requires no extra, exterior sensors to litter the bike, and it has very low friction so it ought to trip regular when you’ve exceeded the 25km/h help restrict.
Whereas it appears to be like like a bolt-on system, body integration is required for the 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 needed. The entire system weighs simply 3.98 kg.
Unrelated, it additionally has a greater variety of 12-speed suitable chainrings for its cranksets now too.
