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Will Jones

New Orbea Orca Aero launches on the eve of Tour de France with the lowest bottom bracket on the market and HUGE tyre capacity

Tyre render front fork.

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.

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