Fara F/All-Road Series 2: one bike to do it all? I raced the Gravel National Champs and went bikepacking in Central Europe

An incredibly versatile bike from a boutique brand that’s competitive on price

Image shows the Fara F/All-Road Series 2.
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Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Fara F/All-Road is an excellent bike, able to take on long bikepacking trips and even be raced in the gravel champs. It’s lightweight, the handling is excellent and the mounting points are generous. The only criticism really to make is that the tyre clearance isn’t very generous – it should be possible to fit wider tyres whilst preserving that geometry.

Reasons to buy
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    Lightweight

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    Resilient

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    Plenty of mounts

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    Great handling

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    Reasonable price

Reasons to avoid
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    A bit more tyre clearance please

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You might not have heard of Fara before but the brand has been going for eight years now, and was founded by Jeff Webb, a Canadian ex-pro who has previously worked for Cervelo and is a long time resident of Oslo, Norway.

Naturally, there’s a heavy Nordic influence in the bikes that Fara creates – but in terms of the design language and the riding they’re designed for: winding up mountain roads and bombing along the fjords on multiday trips in the summer – and grinding through the gritty snow, slush and spray of Oslo’s roads in winter.

Anna Marie Abram
Fitness Features Editor

I’ve been hooked on bikes ever since the age of 12 and my first lap of the Hillingdon Cycle Circuit in the bright yellow kit of the Hillingdon Slipstreamers. For a time, my cycling life centred around racing road and track. 

But that’s since broadened to include multiday two-wheeled, one-sleeping-bag adventures over whatever terrain I happen to meet - with a two-week bikepacking trip from Budapest into the mountains of Slovakia being just the latest.

I still enjoy lining up on a start line, though, racing the British Gravel Championships and finding myself on the podium at the enduro-style gravel event, Gritfest in 2022.

Height: 177cm

Weight: 60–63kg