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Factor’s Updated Slick

Slowman
January 6, 2025

Considering a new tri bike? If so, there’s a 50 percent chance you’ve limited your search to Canyon or Cervelo, simply based on what you tell us when we ask. If you go back to when this site began publishing (1999), these favored brands weren’t contenders, and now they dominate the tri bike market. That’s how things change. Are we getting ready to change again? The answer is yes (certainly design changes, if not brand changes), for reasons described below.

Factor launched a new tri bike last month and I don’t think the intention is for it to (yet) rival the P5 or the Speedmax. This is only the second iteration of the Slick, so this brand has just begun to fight in the tri space. Also, it does not enjoy a breadth of models across the price spectrum and this is a must if you want to sell in volume.


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  1. Hi Dan,

    Good article. Were you able to learn why they went with the 76deg sta?

  2. i didn’t ask but consider the following:

    1. if you design a STA around the saddle to be ridden, you’d choose (say) a 79° angle if riding a syncros belcarra, but a 76° angle if an ISM.
    2. there is so much fore/aft range in today’s tri seat posts that it doesn’t matter.
    3. remember, it’s a world tour TT bike (just like the P5).
    4. so those are all the reasons why - positionally - it doesn’t matter. the only thing that matters is the front end geometry. as to why it was built this way, the bike has a 405mm chain stay and if you want to fair the rear wheel as long as you can - as high up the seat tube as you can - the slacker the better (to a point).
  3. Avatar for marcag marcag says:

    I don’t believe on the WT is riding the Slick. They ride the Hanzo.

    Factor isn’t even telling their pros to ride the Slick

  4. ah, well, then i stand corrected on that.

  5. Avatar for marcag marcag says:

    From @IKnowEverything

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