Specialized's New Aero Bike.


Apparently Cavendish is going to ride it this weekend at MSR.
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/519389/specialized-launch-new-venge-bike-and-association-with-mclaren.html

hey, it's another black and red bike

Looks like they released it today!

http://venge.specialized.com

Oh great, here comes another wave of Specialized builds on the board...

Road Bike Action has more pics
http://www.roadbikeaction.com/Tech-Features/content/67/3938/EXCLUSIVE-FIRST-LOOK-The-2012-Specialized-Venge.html

Specialized Vag would be more appropriate..........just jealous because I cant afford it.

What is with the blinging silvery groupset?.......would be better with SR11. (The RBA pics look better)

Other than those two facts, looks like a nice bike.

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Argggh I hate to admit it but that integrated stem interface is MONEY.

I regretfully agree.

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Interesting seat tube shape. Seems like they did what Litespeed did and designed it around the presence of a water bottle. Litespeed did it on the downtube though:

dont like it, but i dont like any frame made with with bulky tubes (i do have a specialized tarmac without the oversized headtube)
but i must say the with a few less red stripes the decal layout it very beautifel

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would be nice if they gave HTA and STA in the geometry - knowing the offset of the seatpost doesn't help much when you don't know what it's offset from...

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Getting closer to the Cervelo S3 (just the downtube shape)...

...I'm under the impression that with "computer-helped" design, "tunnel testing" and all the "numbers" involved, the new "aero" frames will start to look like the newer car models: All the same, except for tiny details...

...But I like this one !!!

Anyone have a released price for the frameset/module ?


Louis

$8800 with SRAM, $3800 module. We'll have a story up shortly.

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not my cup of tea, the curved top tube makes it look like a dog taking a ****


pity really - the colourway is nice.

Yes, but how much does it weigh? This is WeightWeenies.

I'd like to know the weight vs. aero. I see that plenty of companies are offering "aero" framesets - but they are often at the expense of weight.
A sub900 aero frame would be just dandy. Let's see that.

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