The Roubaix provides you with the tools you need to explore the road less travelled while keeping room in your wallet for a mid-ride brew. The light weight frame has been constructed from our FACT 9r carbon fibre. Its stiffness levels are also off the charts & compared to the SL4 iteration of yesteryear youll experience a whole new faster & more efficient geometry. Through some engineering sorcery however weve managed to keep the same fit feel & position that weve all come to love from the SL4 & kept it consistent throughout the size-range due to our Rider-First Engineered construction. Of course youre probably thinking &34;get on to the suspension thing up front.&34; We call it Future Shock & essentially its a piston in the head tube with 20mm of travel. We developed this technology in partnership with McLaren Applied Technologies & the result of this are a host of drastic performance improvements namely in the vertical compliance department. Without giving a physics lecture we found that focusing on vertical compliance instead of fork splay meant that we could improve smoothness speed & comfort in one fell swoop. & of all the bikes that weve tested with our Rolling Efficiency Model the new Roubaix outperforms anything on the market. Lastly the Roubaix comes equipped with hassle-free mechanical disc brakes thatll see you spending more time riding & zero time bleeding your brakes a Shimano Tiagra drivetrain & Axis Sport Disc wheels ensuring that youll keep rolling without trouble mile after mile. The FACT 9r carbon frame has all of the road absorbing engineered compliance that youd expect from a bike born on the cobbles yet its compact endurance race design provides all of the responsiveness & performance you need for long days in the saddle. FACT 8r carbon 12x 100mm thru-axle Shimano Tiagra FRAMESpecialized FACT 9r carbon Endurance Geometry Rider-First Engineered 12x 142mm thru-axle Future Shock suspension 20mm of travel flat disc mounts FORKSpecialized FACT carbon 12x 100mm thru-axle FRONT WHEELAxis Sport Disc REAR WHEELAxis Sport Disc INNER TUBES700x 20/28mm 40mm Presta valve FRONT TYREEspoir Sport 60 TPI wire bead double Black Belt protection 700x 28mm REAR TYREEspoir Sport 60 TPI wire bead double Black Belt protection 700x 28mm CRANKSETShimano Tiagra 50/34TCHAINRINGS50/34TBOTTOM BRACKETShimano Tiagra SHIFT LEVERSShimano Tiagra FRONT DERAILLEURShimano Tiagra braze-on REAR DERAILLEURShimano Tiagra long cage 10-speed CASSETTEShimano Tiagra 10-speed 11-34t CHAINKMC X10EL 10-speed w/ Missing LinkFRONT BRAKETektro Spyre flat mount mechanical disc REAR BRAKETektro Spyre flat mount mechanical disc HANDLEBARSSpecialized Shallow Drop 6061 70x 125mm 31.8mm clamp TAPES-Wrap w/ Sticky gel STEMSpecialized 3D forged alloy 4-bolt 7-degree rise SADDLEBody Geometry Toupé Sport steel rails 143mm SEATPOSTSpecialized alloy single bolt 27.2mm PEDALSNylon 105x 78x 28mm loose balls w/ reflectors