Fara Biking’s newest carbon Gr4 gravel bike takes gravel racing to the subsequent 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 select 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 in the event you want them, inner 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 blissful to be a lightweight & quick race bike or absolutely loaded right 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 subsequent degree. With even larger 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 modify 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 driving alike.”
– Jeff Webb, Fara Biking founder
What’s so distinctive concerning the Gr4?
Fara Modular Cockpit 2-piece ergonomics & integration idea
Whereas the majority of latest street 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 an alternative of sticking with a standard 2-piece bar & stem (the Gr4 remains to be suitable with common 1 1/8″ stems), they’ve provide you with their very own proprietary two-part system.
Fara says that it’s lighter than a standard 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-obligatory aero bars if you wish to go that ultra-distance route.
The Fara Modular Cockpit answer nonetheless lets customers decide their supreme stem size (3 choices accessible). After which you may 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)
- absolutely built-in inner cable routing (Token A-Field System)
- CeramicSpeed SLT headset
- 1x solely, mechanical or digital shifting
- Improved inner 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 suitable 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 beneath 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 selection 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 embody 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 appears to be like like the primary framesets will begin delivery on the finish of December, whereas full bikes will likely be accessible wherever from as early as mid-November to the top of January 2026, relying on dimension and construct spec.