A 6kg disc brake road bike! | NEW Specialized Aethos

Specialized have released their newest road bike. Not one aimed at pro racers but at people who want a super lightweight disc road bike. At a claimed weight of 5.9kg it seems light but what is it like to ride? Liam gives you his initial thoughts.
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1:00 Thoughts
2:25 Tube Shapes
4:14 Build Quality
6:05 Type clearance
7:23 Threaded Botton bracket
7:59 Seat Post
8:42 Price
10:24 Paint
11:25 Final Thoughts
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[@TheSailingCyclist]

Who is this guy...I only ride Dura Ace #cringe

[@Fluterra]

Agree - I vastly prefer SRAM Red eTap. Does Di2 still have that ridiculous wired box somewhere in the frame?!

[@HkFinn83]

I, personally, only watch reviews with Dura Ace. If I ever see other components, I immediately vomit and then leave.

[@ILYWAMBFH]

Yeah. Sorry mate but I went off to watch someone elses review of this bike who did insist on having it with Dura Ace.

[@ncr323]

Bad way to start a first impression. "as you guys know I only ride DuraAce" Mate Diversity is KEY

[@jeremyharris8073]

I wasn't thinking about diversity, but I was definitely appalled by that statement 😂

[@Jeppelelle]

I do not get that statement, is it because he is a snob or because he has a sponsor or whatever that only allows for Dura Ace? Kinda guessing the former since it is fitting with people who say "As you guys know..." (i didn't know he only rides Dura Ace...i don't even know him, it's kinda weird with people that assume everyone in the world knows them & their intimate preferences)

[@ncr323]

@@jeremyharris8073 yeah lol

[@ncr323]

@@Jeppelelle true mate

[@ncr323]

@trickycycling 🤣🤣🤣🤣 lol right on

[@RandonneurPadyakero]

I'm sorry only Ride Specialized Allez Sora... 👌👌👌

[@dermur68]

Most of the people actually buying this bike could afford to lose 10kg by eating less...

[@robertkujawa3504]

"I only ride DuraAce, I don't stop recording with planes overhead and I will spew any bullshit Specialized pays me to" Bleh...

[@omarlondon]

how fast is it on the flat straights compared with the sl7?

[@fk8002]

I only watch bike reviews with shimano sora sorry mate🤷🏼‍♂️

[@indiebikes]

The silver one looks like a disc brake version of my Allez Comp SL DSW, albeit 1.5kg lighter! Personally, if I just dropped £11k on an S-Works, I want it to say “S-WORKS” all the way down the down tube. Now, if only they did a special “lightweight” edition with rim brakes!

[@brody5211]

Hideous

[@chrisvanbuggenum871]

This is perfect. I have long wondered "if there was no 6.8kg minimum would bikes really be the heavy aero bikes we have?" I'm sure it would be slower than a tarmac if it had weights put in it to bring it up to 6.8kg, but we don't have to do that. Is it slower for me? Who knows?

[@everywherelocal]

great video 🔥

[@involuntarysoul3867]

the frame is way too small for you, i bet you got tons of toe overlap

[@CyberPain1991]

Can this bike take a luggage rack?

[@Peppermynt.]

Can the bike take an 8 ball of coke?

[@BG-yr1rr]

I only ride dura ace? Feh!

[@insung9]

Statements like “I only ride Dura Ace” in a review for $12,000 bike gives this sport a bad look. There is a global pandemic and millions of people are out of work and this guy is complaining that Specialized didn’t send him a bike fitted with with Dura Ace? How tone deaf can you be? Please do better @road.cc.

[@suminshizzles6951]

For a 12k bike not to come with dura ace is a shame tbh. I hate sram. shimano are the market leaders any which way you look at it. They are the standard and have been for a long long time.

[@user-hs2hd7wp9g]

Coming from Shimano to SRAM doesn't change anything in terms of feeling and everyday use, the only downside is the availability of parts which isn't as good as Shimano (in the UE at least)

[@user-fk8rb8ue5h]

It looks it looks like it would snap if it hit a pothole so light

[@wasabi1m]

‘I only ride dura ace’ ....

[@manuelquinones2235]

After reading all the comments I'm glad that I wasn't the only one..."I only ride Dura-Ace" Get out of here with that. You are doing a bike review, not a component review. How about the people that prefer SRAM...or Campagnolo? Please make a video that can be inclusive...

[@danielmartonkovacs3278]

Sorry, I only watch reviews where the face of the reviewer and his snobbism doesn't get in the way of the actual message of the review itself. Unfollowed.

[@klokkvorc2]

God I'm so tired of this sprinting out of the saddle all the time. People just don't ride bikes this way.

[@andrzejmierski8561]

Less of your face, more of the bike. Less talking about the bush more review.

[@rikkiola]

Are opinions ever objective? 🤔

[@lucasgjohnson]

Let me know if you wanna gift this bike. I am a size 58cm frame!

[@timetrialist]

Clearly everyone here buys Specialized BS. Check out the SL7 flawed head units design and cracks

[@hasaanfreeman8359]

It’s a gentleman’s racer.

[@MarcraM82]

"I only ride dura ace" cycling elitism in full effect here

[@robertbowker2807]

Claris!

[@paulsayer1857]

Knob.................

[@kakrot3]

But it doesn't look cool.

[@mikespadafora9077]

I can't stand the spewing and repetition of the Specialized Propaganda. Computer simulations, blah blah, blah. The only thing that was computer simulated is the marketing campaign.

[@oreocarlton3343]

Specialized is a brand without any decency

[@dermur68]

Would never buy anything Specialized after that Café Roubaix crap...

[@tobycolin6271]

“All the frame fragility and no weight benefit.” The aethos really annoys me it makes me rage every time I see it. Today I got my specialized allez of the turbo and weighed it 8kg with pedals, cages, 50mm carbons go 4000, normal tubes and a square taper bb. I then got my 2012 synapse carbon out with 60mm carbons 25 mm gp 4000 and normal tubes on and a hambini bb it weighs 7.3kgs. If I wanted to I could put carbon cranks, 23mm tubs and 38mm deep tub rims both these 12 year old bikes would be lighter than a pro or elite Aethos. All this cost hype and technical wizardry to accommodate disc brakes an item which is hardly ever used and is never going to have a strava segment. Who has ever wanted a pb for braking. The aethos should be a 4.5kg bike but it’s not due to heavy component choice.

[@dafj5618]

Makes you rage every time you see it LOL ok boomer

[@tobycolin6271]

@@dafj5618 the reviews are all the same and it was this bike that tuned me in to the advertorials that pose for independent tests. Play the independent review game find an obscure word from the press release and see how many tests it appears in. I picked “noodly” for this bike and it appears in nearly every review.

[@jshockey100]

I don't want a pb for braking. But you know that one time I was able to avoid a head on collision with another rider on the trail in wet conditions was pretty nice. I don't think rim brakes would have stopped me in time. Brakes are a safety feature, not just a performance feature.

[@attybong]

lightest or not, it has been proven that a pro rider does not need disk brakes to win the tour d france .. the notion that disk brakes are better than rim brakes is purely marketing hype ..

[@dermur68]

The laws of physics would tend to agree with you. There's a reason door handles are as far away from hinges as possible...

[@jshockey100]

@@dermur68 I get what you're saying but unless your willing to scrape a ceramic brake pad against your rim it's not as effective as a disk brake. The placement is not the only factor. Like many things it's a trade off, weight vs braking performance. I'm not surprised that the vast majority of people are going to choose braking over small weight savings given that most people aren't racing. But that slight better braking performance may improve safety (or at least the feeling of safety).

[@jspash666]

I'd rather not have to buy a new set of carbon wheels every 2-3 years. Rotors are much cheaper. But to each their own.

[@attybong]

@@jspash666 no problem with us, ordinary mortals, you can buy what your money can buy .. but, what i am saying is that pros don't need it, especially in mountain stages .. and b.t.w. pogacar was back on rimbrakes to win the just recently concluded il lombardia .. if only to emphasize my point.

[@Incaensio]

It's 2103 again! Zero aerodynamics, round tubes, and a focus purely on weight. But this time with disc brakes! So it's a 2013 bike with disc brakes. Boring. No climber or weight weenie will buy disc brakes unless they have no descending skills. No racer will buy a modern bike with zero aerodynamics or cockpit integration. So who will buy this bike then? Specialized fuck boys I guess. Nobody sensible that I can see.