The new Specialized Venge ViAS is quantifiably faster than a standard road bike by a wide margin. What’s more, the bike handles like an excellent race bike should, with nimble handling, a highly efficient chassis and supple tyres mounted on deep, wide rims that deliver huge amounts of confidence in fast turns.
Since you can read about the details of the bike’s design in our news story on the Venge ViAS, I’ll focus here on my experiences on the bike — and the results of a unique Venge-to-Tarmac test that combined wind-tunnel data, real-world riding and the data-crunching simulation software of McLaren Applied Technologies.
I’ll give the ending away. Yes, the Venge ViAS is faster. Much faster.
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- Highs: Incredibly slippery in the wind; impeccable handling; comes with a Quarq power meter
- Lows: Price; small weight penalty
- Buy if: You want the fastest stock road bike money can buy
Is it a fairing or a big brake? Well, it's both
To launch the ViAS, Specialized invited a few media types to its California headquarters for a day in the company’s “Win Tunnelâ€, followed by a day of highly measured F1-level McLaren modelling validation testing, and then a big day of charging around the serpentine mountain roads of Santa Cruz.
What is modelling validation testing? Let’s talk first about modelling. McLaren is a massive F1 company with deep resources. Besides building high-end race machines, a big part of what it does is studying the minutiae of exactly how cars go fast, and thereby pushing the envelopes of both design and race execution.
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