The Factor One is quite unlike the cookie-cutter designs that dominate the contemporary road bike recipe, many of which look conservatively tame in comparison. It doesn't pretend to be anything other than a tool designed to scythe through the air and unapologetically keeps with the company’s radical design philosophy and Formula One-rooted history. Strip back the layers, however, and there’s an incredible story to be told about how it came to be and its forward-thinking geometry, not least how it rides and performs in the real world. It’s absolutely bonkers-fast.
Factor as a company is not new to creating machines of this nature - both the Vis Vires and Aston Martin One-77 bikes pushed the boundaries of design, aerodynamics, and integration and still look contemporary in today’s landscape. While the Factor One draws many parallels with those two bikes, the company’s ultimate goal was to push the design team's restless creativity to the absolute limit and build the fastest UCI-legal road frame ever - something that the brand claims to have achieved.
