Specialized Tarmac Sl6 Sport Disc 2020 Review
Although it isn t the cheapest on offer it justifies its price with a potent concoction of performance and.
Specialized tarmac sl6 sport disc 2020 review. Specialized tarmac sl6 pro force etap axs 12 speed disc road bike. If you want to go fast like go fast everywhere this is the bike. Dropped rearstays which start lower down the seat tube. The specialized tarmac sl6 comp disc is one of our bike of the year bikes for 2019.
When you shell out a fairly significant amount of money on a new bike you take the view that you are going to own that bike for years and ride 10 s of thousands of km on it and for sure that was my expectation and my desire for my specialized tarmac pro disc 2019 which was a gift reward to myself. As the most affordable carbon fibre tarmac with disc brakes there s a lot riding on the tarmac disc sport being a good bike because it s likely that it will sell in much greater numbers than the stunningly good s works tarmac i reviewed in 2017. Within the tarmac family the 6 700 tarmac disc pro is a standout for delivering the same. This is the bike that s made for everything from grand tours to your local fondo and with a ground up redesign a heavy dose of aero wizardry and of course disc brakes our most complete race bike is well even more complete.
To read reviews of the other contenders and the categories tested across road mountain and women s bikes. The sl6 frame design on this specialized tarmac disc comp has been with us for over a year now and there s a clear theme across the range. The specialized tarmac sl6 pro force etap axs 12 speed disc road bike uses the carbon fact 10r functional advanced composite technology frameset roval cl50 carbon disc wheels and sram s fully wireless force etap axs 12 speed groupset to produce a bike which is light stiff aerodynamic and simply a joy to operate. Specialized tarmac pro disc 2020 product review.
The specialized tarmac disc expert is one of the biggest new road bike releases of 2019. The comp model also gets an upgrade to 10r carbon. The specialized s works tarmac disc has the handling of a superbike and for me it s on a par with the cervélo r5 disc probably the best handling bike i ve ridden until now. The bikes are still built around the same great sl6 frame with new colours on each bike.