Fara Biking’s newest carbon Gr4 gravel bike takes gravel racing to the following degree with big tire clearance, vital weight reduction, and a wild-looking new modular 2-piece cockpit that provides adjustability, improved ergonomics, and tidy cable integration. Fara describes the brand new Gr4 as Goldilocks – a brand new bike developed so riders don’t have to choose both an journey bike or a race bike. This new Gr4 is a quick aero-influenced however comfort-oriented gravel race bike with room for enormous 2.2″ mountain bike tires should you want them, inside body storage, and ergonomic cockpit adjustability… all in a body that now weighs lower than 1 kilo.
Fara Gr4 adventure-ready carbon gravel race bike
For his or her fourth technology of adventure-ready mixed-surface dropbar bikes, Norwegian bike firm Fara Biking have created the Gr4 – a flexible & succesful gravel bike that’s comfortable to be a light-weight & quick race bike or totally loaded all the way down to go bikepacking off-the-beaten observe deep within the backcountry. Whereas Fara’s first bikes leaned extra within the all-road/quick gravel touring path, their devoted F/GR gravel bike already had big-for-the-time 50mm tire clearance 4 years in the past.
Now with this new carbon Gr4 gravel race bike, Fara takes it to the following degree. With even greater tires – now as much as 57mm, lighter weight – shedding 200g on the body plus one other 300g within the body package, and a twin-spar modular cockpit – with 10mm of Attain regulate and 4 bar sizes with width-specific flare.
“We didn’t wish to power riders to decide on between a motorbike that’s constructed for racing and one which’s constructed for exploration, with the Gr4, we labored with our athletes and designers to create one thing that excels at each. A light-weight, responsive body with big tire clearance and refined ergonomics make it excellent for contemporary gravel racing, exploration and on a regular basis using alike.”
– Jeff Webb, Fara Biking founder
What’s so distinctive in regards to the Gr4?
Fara Modular Cockpit 2-piece ergonomics & integration idea
Whereas the majority of recent highway and gravel race bikes have adopted 1-piece carbon cockpits for modern aero integration, Fara has opted for one thing totally different… and barely sophisticated. As a substitute of sticking with a conventional 2-piece bar & stem (the Gr4 remains to be appropriate with common 1 1/8″ stems), they’ve give you their very own proprietary two-part system.
Fara says that it’s lighter than a traditional bar & stem and extra snug than most 1-piece options, whereas additionally giving the rider 10mm of stem size/attain adjustability (with the flat 4-bolt prime mounting) and a direct mount answer for non-compulsory aero bars if you wish to go that ultra-distance route.
The Fara Modular Cockpit answer nonetheless lets customers choose their excellent stem size (3 choices accessible). After which you possibly can mix-and-match any of their 4 bars. Every handlebar options beneficiant backsweep and a little bit of sloping drop on the tops to naturally align together with your wrist angle for consolation. Then the bars get variable flare to their drops – 8* for the narrowest bar, as much as 12° for the widest bars.
Tech particulars
light-weight hi-mod Torayca T1000 and M40X carbon body, with dropped & curved seatstay for consolation
970g claimed (dimension M, unpainted with out {hardware})
full carbon 1.5-1.125″ tapered steerer fork
2-piece mix-and-match adjustable carbon cockpit (360, 385, 415, 440mm c-c widths on the hoods, plus 8-12° flare to the drops)
10mm adjustable stem size in 3 sizes (80-90, 100-110 &120-130mm)
totally built-in inside cable routing (Token A-Field System)
CeramicSpeed SLT headset
1x solely, mechanical or digital shifting
Improved inside Stash Hatch body storage inside downtube
Fara IBS (Built-in Bikepacking System) detachable magnetic direct mounts for QR body bag
57mm max 700c tire clearance – as much as 29x 2.2″ MTB tire
spherical 27.2mm seatpost with exterior seatpost clamp
T47 threaded backside bracket, 85.5mm for inboard bearings
UDH & 12mm thru-axles
direct entrance derailleur mount for a chain-guide (not appropriate with entrance derailleurs)
flat mount 160mm disc brake mounts
hidden full protection entrance & rear fender mounts
3-bolt something cage mounts on fork legs & downtube, plus seattube cage, toptube bag & cage mount below the downtube
bolt-on plastic downtube protector
4 body sizes accessible (S 49, M 53, L 56 & XL 59cm)
Fara Gr4 gravel bike – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new Fara Gr4 gravel bike is obtainable each as a frameset together with their modular cockpit, or in a number of customizable construct choices. It additionally is available in 4 sizes (S49cm-XL59cm) and 4 colours: Translucent black, purple Shade, Strand yellow & Dawn yellow to white fade.
Framesets promote for $5250 / 5250€ together with carbon body, fork, seatpost, and your alternative of 12 adjustable cockpit sizes.
Full bike builds begin as little as $6500 / 6200€ with a SRAM Rival Xplr AXS groupset & alloy Fulcrum wheels. And so they climb as excessive as $10,500 / 9900€ with SRAM Pink Xplr and ultra-wide Zipp 303 SW Xplr carbon wheels.
All builds embrace a CeramicSpeed backside bracket and SLT headsets so that you shouldn’t ever have to fret about rerunning cables to switch a bearing. Fara additionally lets each full bike purchaser select bar width, stem size & crank size to dial in your match, it doesn’t matter what dimension bike you purchase.
As for availability, you’ll should be a bit affected person. It seems like the primary framesets will begin delivery on the finish of December, whereas full bikes will probably be accessible anyplace from as early as mid-November to the tip of January 2026, relying on dimension and construct spec.
FaraCycling.com
