As night follows day, so the prototype bikes spotted at the Dauphiné (no, sorry… I mean the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) are released just before the Tour de France, all within a few days, and each swallowed up by the next.
We’ve already had a brand new Look 795 Blade RS for Cofidis, a new Tarmac SL9 for Red Bull and Soudal (plus a new Specialized TT bike in prototype form for Remco Evenepoel), plus a rogue couple of gravel bikes from Giant this week, but today it’s the turn of Orbea to set its latest machine out into the wild: the new, updated and heavily overhauled Orca Aero, ready to race under the Lotto-Intermarché riders.