The Elara's wide-splaying fork is lifted straight from the Factor ONE, built to disrupt airflow before it reaches the rider's legs — gravel clearance is the constraint the engineers worked around, not the starting point. Factor claims drag with 45–57mm tires lands in aero-road territory, a gap closed by tuning the whole frame — lower bottom bracket, reduced trail — for gravel race speeds rather than gravel terrain. It's built for UCI Gravel World Series and Gravel Earth Series podiums, developed with 2025 Gravel Earth Series champion Magnus Bak. There's no comfort case being made here, and Factor isn't pretending otherwise.