RIDE LIKE A PRO Well, on their bikes, anyway...

Provided your bank account is sufficiently flush, you can walk into a shop and ride out on a WorldTour-level bike. This is unique to cycling – it’s not as if the man on the street can go down to the local Mercedes dealership and drive away in an F1 racing car. Feast your eyes on these dream machines, each at the bleeding edge of technology and style.

COMPILED BY JON MINSTER

SPECIALIZED S-WORKS TARMAC PRICE: R140 000 SPECIALIZED.COM This utterly gorgeous bicycle is the sixth iteration of the S-Works Tarmac, one of the most successful bikes in the pro peloton. Specialized were one of the first manufacturers to introduce a dropped seat-stay design, which is now commonplace among top-level road bikes. The dropped stays increase compliance and improve aerodynamics – something that is further enhanced by a slimmer down tube and bottom bracket – but somehow the extra compliance doesn’t sacrifice anything in the way of road feel, handling or stiffness. And amazingly, despite all the new aero tech borrowed from the Venge, the SL6 Tarmac frame is 20% lighter than the previous version, weighing only about 800g. This is thanks to some stupidly high-quality FACT 12r carbon, the construction and lay-up of which was…

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Bicycling South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, July - August 2020

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