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Scout’s honour

When Czech brand Festka developed its first gravel bike – the Rover, released in 2019 – the company borrowed many of the designs and processes previously employed on its road offerings. That meant the finished product was a punchy and versatile gravel-road hybrid. At same the time, however, it was also working on this, the Scout.

‘We started the project in 2016,’ says Michael Moureček, one of Festka’s co-founders and the brand’s

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