Specialized Road Bike News: Orange County

2011 Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL 3 - Bike Like a Pro in OC at Rock 'N Road

2011-02-03T13:36:00.000-08:00

Get Your Specialized Bike Gloves at Rock N Road-Keep Your Hands Protected

2011-01-30T12:49:00.000-08:00

Rock N Road Has All the Latest Specialized Bike Gear

2011-01-28T12:46:00.000-08:00

Be kind to your butt!

2011-01-27T19:46:00.000-08:00

2011 Tarmac SL3 S-works Road Bike - Specialized Full Line at Rock N' Road OC

2010-10-29T11:18:00.000-07:00

The 2011 Specialized S-works Tarmac SL3 is now available at Rock N' Road Cyclery. This top of the line road bike features a stiff and lightweight frame, and is fitted with the lightest, most powerful components on the market. This bike will amaze you!

Check out our short video on the bike ridden under the Saxo Bank racing team. The SL3 won the Paris to Nice 2010 with Alberto Contador at the helm. In order to maintain its Pro Tour success, Specialized S-Works has produced the updated Tarmac SL3 with size options ranging from 49cm to 61cm.

Come down to one of the four convenient Rock N' Road Cyclery locations in Orange County, California, to see the amazing bike for yourself. While you're at it, check out the entire incredible collection of 2011 Specialized bikes for your family's every cycling need. The experts at Rock N' Road Cyclery will work with you to get you custom fitted to a new and formidable cycling experience. Get the best ride of your life with Specialized form Rock N' Road Cyclery. Visit the stores in Mission Viejo, Laguna Niguel. Ananheim Hills or Irvine or check out the website (link above) or blog http://rocknroadcyclery.blogspot.com for up to the minute information on everything Specialized has to offer the discerning cyclist.

Introducing New 2011 Specialized Globe Roll Single-speed Bicycles

2010-08-28T19:17:00.000-07:00

The 2011 Specialized Globe Roll...an all new lighter weight fully Chromalloy tubing frame and starting at lower base costs. It specifically features either a fixed gear or free wheel hub, 32mm deep 700c rims, and an Alloy 42-tooth track-style single-speed crankset. Hurry in and check one out today! The Globe Roll is sure to satisfy in its minimalist yet durable frame.

http://www.bikerumor.com/2010/07/12/new-specialized-globe-roll-singlespeeds/

Specialized Takes Tour de France First and Second Place: Roubaix, Tarmac and Shiv Rule!

2010-07-30T14:34:00.000-07:00

No need to mess with a well written article, so a hat tip to Cognition from Down Under for this report.

July 26, 2010 Morgan Hill, CA Every bike company dreams of winning the Tour de France: Specialized realized its dream and took it one step further, with Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck riding their Specialized bikes1-2 finish Sunday in Paris. This was the first-ever Maillot Jaune for the California company.
Of course there was also a wide array of Specialized equipment in the peleton, with riders on two teams sporting their brand new Prevail helmets, including grenn jersey winner Alessoandro Petacchi, and amy others using their shoes, saddles and various other accessories.

After many years of sponsoring Pro Tour teams, founder and owner Mike Sinyard was exuberant about the success of the teams (Astana and Saxo Bank) and riders with whom he's worked so closely for research and development on these bikes and equipment. He's also pretty psyched for the company!

"Winning the tour is a dream for us that has taken 36 years to come true" Sinyard said. 'It's clear example of successfully following our founding principle to focus on the riders need for technologically advanced products that provide true performance benefits".

With technology playing a bigger part in pro cycling every year, Specialized worked hand-in hand with the pros to dial in the perfect combination of ride feel and efficiency, resulting in the fastest, best-forming, most comfortable bikes possible. And unlike most companies who provide road and TT bikes, Specialized developed three different race-ready bikes for the event, specific to the ride experience of the day: Tarmac SL3 for road stages, Shiv for time trials, Roubaix SL3 for cobbleston- heavy stage 3.

The results speak for themselves:along with the overall podiums, Specialized enjoyed 5 individual stage wins, including two on the Shiv and three on a tarmac. The Shiv's unequalled combination of wind sclicing aerodynamics and road-bike handling allowed Fabian Cancellara to blow away the field in the race's two time trials.

The Tarmac, with its industry leading stiffness to weight ratio and race-proven geometry, helped propel Schleck and Alexandre Vinokourov to three dominant victories in the mountains.

Perhaps the biggest story, though, was the 2011 Roubaix SL3. After its early success this spring with the win at Paris-Roubaix, the riders appreciated its benefits over the cobblestones of stage 3.
"I not going to lose any sleep over Sateg 3" Contador said before the race. "The new bike(Roubaix SL3) Specialized has provided for me will be crucial"

Proving again that "smoother is faster", the Roubaix helped Contador and Schleck float over the brutal roads, gaining valuable time over their main rivals, and laying the groundwork for their eventual head to head battle for overall title.

In the gritty, down to the finish battle for the sprinter's green jersey, Petacchi put the Prevail helmet to the ultimate test....it passed with flying (green) colours! The best complete performance helmet proved its excellence in aerodynamics, fit, cooling-and of course protection-over three weeks of torturous conditions, from wind to heat to brutal, high speed crashes. And it always looked sleek and stylish-especially in full green on the Champs Elysees.

Top all that off with professional BG Fits and our sponsored athletes were able to push themselves beyond their limits, only to come back even stronger the next stage.

Sourced: Matt O'Connor, Specialized Australia.

The 2011 Specialized Allez Comp: A Strong, High Performance Touring Bike

2010-07-08T21:09:00.000-07:00

If you are looking into an entry level racing bike, the Specialized 2011 Allez Comp is where you should start. Redesigned for 2011, the aluminum frame is shaped exactly like the Tarmac.

"After the Roubaix, the biggest news on the road side is the complete redesign of the Specialized Allez. The new frames are 20% stiffer…they have the same torsional stiffness as the Pro Tour-proven Tarmac SL3…and they get the same tapered headtube design on the Elite models with bearings set further up the steerer tube for enhanced stiffness due to increased surface contact area (details are a bit sparse on that aspect, we’re working on it). The seat tube gets butted, swaged and formed into a squared shape at the bottom bracket, strengthening one of the highest stressed areas on the bike.

Being Specialized’s competitive but affordable road model, the Allez comes with both high performance builds and one version with SRAM’s new performance touring compact double Apex group. In addition to the same stiffness as the Tarmac SL3, the new Allez shares its racy geometry. In this comparison, the gray is the Allez A1, yellow is the Allez E5 and the red is the Tarmac SL3."(BikeRumor)

2011 Specialized Tarmac SL3

2010-07-07T11:45:00.000-07:00

The 2011 Tarmac SL3 has a triangulated seat for stiffness and the geometry is aggressive. You can expect more confidence, better handling, and better power transfer from these features.

The bigger cross section in the fork with wider and stiffer blades are the keys to the bike's stiffness.

Bikeradar says "Is it a case of stiffness that goes up to 11? Possibly, but again you can't argue with the results. Riders on board Tarmacs have won more than 25 ProTour races this year, and given that Alberto Contador, Fabian Cancellara, Frank and Andy Schleck will all race them at the Tour de France, there's no doubt the frame will enjoy more success."

Specialized 2011 Roubaix SL3: Comfort and Capability

2010-07-04T16:06:00.000-07:00

At the top of the Specialized Endurance line, The 2011 Roubaix SL3 is a comfortable road bike that can race with the best of them, and yet versatile enough to be appealing to all riders.

Engineers have designed a frame that assists the bike to limit vibration and increase sticktion, which delivers a smoother and more efficient ride. And although Specialized has been using Zerts elastomer inserts for a while, they have been given a permanent home, securely placed in a nook of the seat stay. Specialized has included internal cable routing and boasts that the bottom bracket to chain stay is in one piece to increase the efficiency of power transfer.

Specialized has also taken responsiveness into consideration, and made sure to leave their “cobra” tube unchanged, which widens and drops into a fatter, tapered head tube for extra stiffness. They also offer a redesigned, stiffer fork with a two bladder molding style.