The Specialized Tarmac has spent the last decade amassing an envy-inspiring collection of victories. But for 2017, Specialized has added a few new ingredients to its well-established race-winning recipe.
The Tarmac is made for racing. It’s not an aero bike built to beat the wind, nor a featherweight climber to take on the mountains, nor a supple endurance chassis to smooth out the cobbles – it’s a machine made for competing, anywhere and everywhere. And few other bikes have been ridden to victory as many times as the Specialized Tarmac.
To take just one year as an example, in 2015 it carried Alberto Contador to his Giro d'Italia title in May, then Fabio Aru to his Vuelta win a few months later. The Tarmac’s also triumphed at the Tour de France (2014) and the Giro (2016) underneath Vincenzo Nibali.
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And although victory eluded that trio of Grand Tour winners at the 2016 Tour de France, each of their French campaigns were carried out aboard a Tarmac – custom-painted ones in the cases of Nibali and Contador.
The Tarmac’s also been piloted to a collection of sprint wins with Mark Cavendish at the helm, and world championship titles under Paolo Bettini, Michal Kwiatkowski and Peter Sagan.
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