A Queensland-based chain waxing service (renh_chain_wax_service) seems to have inadvertently leaked an as-yet-unreleased new Issue Ostro VAM this morning. The bike, belonging to Israel-Premier Tech’s Simon Clarke, seems to have been raced on the 2024 Australian Nationwide Street Race Championships and was first noticed by Escape Collective. It can additionally (we assume) characteristic within the upcoming Tour Down Beneath and we’ll preserve an eye fixed out for it there.
It’s unclear whether or not Clarke opted for the AU$20 Customary or AU$50 Race chain optimization waxing service, however the Instagram publish provides us a superb have a look at the brand new mannequin, the discharge date of which is at present unknown.
January typically sees loads of new package and gear being rolled out. You may preserve updated with what everyone seems to be utilizing this yr in our males’s and girls’s WorldTour tech guides.
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A brand new Issue Ostro VAM
What’s new then? Nicely, in comparison with the present mannequin, this version appears to be following the final business development for aero within the entrance, light-weight within the again. The fork legs are deeper, and mildew extra organically right into a deeper, extra clearly rounded headtube; the present mannequin is all aggressive kammtail cutoffs, not the case right here. It additionally seems that the steerer tube is not set proper on the entrance of the pinnacle tube, indicating the designers have added materials in entrance to make the pinnacle tube deeper, very similar to the ‘pace sniffer’ seen on the most recent Specialised Tarmac SL8.
The highest tube tapers far more drastically, to a wafer-like part on the seat tube junction, and the down tube is barely deeper too. Clarke rides a comparatively small body, and there seems to be a really slight sculpting on the underside of the down tube to accommodate the entrance wheel.
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The seat tube doesn’t seem like a lot deeper however does now characteristic a cutout for the rear wheel. In addition to aerodynamic advantages this may occasionally effectively level to geometry modifications if the chainstays, which have been barely plumped out in a transfer we assume is to enhance stiffness, have been shortened. The seat stays look roughly unchanged.
There’s a brand new cowl for the seat clamp wedge, so we could also be in for a brand new association there, and on condition that the most recent Issue O2 VAM has an built-in seat publish we won’t guess what it would appear like but.
There’s no mistaking the wheel model this season both. ‘BLACK INC’ is emblazoned in white on every rim, taking over a stable third of the circumference. A white 48/58 notation on the valve signifies that it is a new wheelset from Issue’s in-house componentry model too, sitting between the Sixty and the Forty 5 units.
