Peter Sagan's S-Works Tarmac SL7 | Bora Hansgrohe's Specialized All-Rounder

[@gcnracing]

What do you think of Sagan's 2021 bike? Let us know in the comments below!

[@And-rc9yy]

It's foxy alright.

[@SamSam-dm6ji]

did you get the wrong data that his bike was 7.8kg? Or you weight with water? From my understanding the original Tarmac SL7 w/ Dura Ace groupset weights less than 7.0kg.

[@oscaryehuda8793]

You probably dont care but if you're bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all the new series on Instaflixxer. Been streaming with my gf for the last few weeks :)

[@tuckerkai750]

@Oscar Yehuda definitely, have been using InstaFlixxer for years myself =)

[@popitn2nd]

The worst recall bike in cycling history.

[@illestFlavor]

Can't go wrong with S-works. They always look so good

[@wazirtan6801]

aonly the words name look great i admit

[@kujux800]

the bike trend now is to ride 7.5 kg + bicycle with disc and call it a lightweight aero bike

[@djconnel]

They keep bragging about how well discs slow you down, after all.

[@Risayogi]

That is a very heavy lightweight bike.

[@plainlyeclectic]

Agreed. A bit too heavy. I have to imagine they weighed it with the bottles on

[@mariusilerd9581]

Filled with water i hope

[@joelyons886]

another lemmin listening to too much durianrider

[@mariusilerd9581]

He is watching the scale you idiot..

[@matthewlewis2072]

Does seem a bit high. Were the bottles full?!?!

[@LoaforDie]

Those sprint buttons can definitely come in clutch.

[@BFinesilver2]

My old bike was an SL4 Expert. It weighed 7kg with pedals and cages. HEAVY.

[@Chrissummerill]

I’ve got an aluminium Allez Sprint with Ultegra which is the same weight as this bike. The bike industry is a mess.

[@ShakeNBakeUK]

dayum that's one sick bike!

[@DurianriderCyclingTips]

My S-Works Ruby with sram red is 6.8kg with xtr pedals. Cost me 950AUD and was only ridden a few times by the original female owner.

[@mateusalves9436]

7.8kg is a bit bonkers for a top of the range carbon bike, thats 500g more than my steel bike! Altough its something like a size 53, fitted with rim brakes and a 1x set up.

[@sweatnosweat]

thats crazy, Sagan is 1m84cm. uses size 56 and 140mm stem... how does he do it?

[@samuelquindoy375]

WOW! Awesome bike, great Components 😯, 👍.

[@comrade_youri2966]

7.8 kg?!?! My 1000 euro second hand bike has about the same weight lol

[@quintennn]

Aerodynamics > weight. Bikes got a bit heavier over the last few years but a lot more aero.

[@ntglf467]

@@Chris-jc3lr watch the video from NorCal cycling, it‘s not all marketing bs :)

[@PrzemyslawSliwinski]

@@Chris-jc3lr Some believe in weight others in aero gains...

[@matthiaswuest7271]

I can only imagine that's with bottles + pedals and computer mount? Or at least the latter two (which would give 7.5 or thereabouts). Very surprising, I've seen the SL7 being built up wayyyy lighter

[@st.bimbam]

@@matthiaswuest7271 yeah that’s got to be with bottles

[@troisminutesdumans7650]

Isn't it 9170 group set?

[@gcnracing]

The shifters are 9170, the mechs are 9150, the brakes are 9120, the chainset and cassette are 9100 - so it's a 91something groupset.

[@YannickLB]

7,8kg for the top of the range sl7? How?? You can buy the same specs in the shop with 6,7kg.

[@bjsr126]

Bottle Cages, Bottles, Pedals + Wahoo would add some weight. Not 1.1KG worth you wouldn't think however. Not sure where the rest of the indifference is!

[@YannickLB]

@@bjsr126 if they weighed it with filled bottles it would. But who weighes a bike with bottles and mount on it.. It's not 'the bike'. If they want to know the weight when it's used, they could also weigh the rider while they at it xD

[@bjsr126]

@@YannickLB well it was a GCN presenter who just brought along a scale and went for it, I'm sure he didn't have the balls not permission to start fiddling with the weighted accesories! Severely doubt there was anything in those bottles however.

[@Esch1231]

hidden engine+ battery :D

[@DurianriderCyclingTips]

Ive got 2 sl7 sworks 56cm and they are NOT sub 7kg with pedals bro.

[@hartmutfeil4870]

7.8 😂 you have to love those Disc brake bikes

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

Specialized aethos - hold my beer. It’s not because the bike is disc, it’s because specialized made a complete botch with its marketing decisions on that bike. They should have just named it the venge because that’s what it is.

[@matthewlewis2072]

Spesh Aethos? Oh, and in every powered sport, braking is a key way of going quicker.

[@MrBusunglueck]

In they vid they did last year it was 7,3 kg.

[@tomcolls9264]

Are we sure they are Aerofly's? Interesting to see Roval stamped on them

[@tomcolls9264]

I heard there was rumoured to be an updated Aerofly bar release under the Roval brand. Different shape hooks with a smaller/shorter flat top

[@sbccbc7471]

That's very likely the unannounced Roval Rapide handlebars. Check out GC Performance, he talked about it a few weeks ago.

[@joshburg09]

So he’s gonna make it through the third week of the Giro with a 44x28 low gear? I feel like they must put a different chain set/cassette combo on different days, cause that’s bonkers.

[@gcnracing]

Yeah almost certainly! This is his bike as raced at Milan San Remo, so the gearing was pretty massive!

[@stevenaaus]

Agree - hard to believe. I'm sure giving GCN the whole goss is top of their todo list ;)

[@joshburg09]

@@stevenaaus What other priority could there be? 😉

[@paulysci925]

7.8kg @durianrider for the win! Lol😂🤣👍👏 (🧑‍🏫teacher Harley has been schooling 6.8 SL 7 tarmac guys hating on his videos for weeks this just cocorroborated all his weight weenie vs reality vids)

[@matthewlewis2072]

Durianrider is a nob

[@DurianriderCyclingTips]

@@matthewlewis2072 *Durianrider has a girffy knob. U seen his latest gf on his channel in the bikini? How does he pull these high SMV babes??

[@prestachuck2867]

If you said 7.8 kilos(or 7.anything), either you’re mistaken or that S-Works Tarmac is heavier than my stock Tarmac Pro SL6 which is a step down and a year older, and about the same weight as my Steel bike with R8000 Ultegra group and aluminum Campagnolo Eurus wheels. Did you forget to calibrate your scale before weighing that bicycle?

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

@@Chris-jc3lr the specialized aethos says hold my beer. The sl7 is a complete flop. My 2019 tcr disc with ultegra group weighs the exact weight including pedals, computer, bottle cages and empty water bottles. I paid just over 26% of the cost of that sl7.

[@matthewlewis2072]

@@Chris-jc3lr errr...Aethos? SL7 is a bit porky.

[@oreocarlton3343]

@@giuseppepennisi8699 aethos is a pork stake for dentists compared to the fact that trully lightweight bikes with rim brakes can weight 5 kg with half the price

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

@@oreocarlton3343 lol- rim brakes. Biggest load of outdated crap. Time to move on boomer, there’s a hole new world out there.

[@Led899]

@@giuseppepennisi8699 se non sai frenare i dischi sono belli, se sai piegare, invece, sono pesanti. Invece del dare del boomer vai ad imparare come si piega in bici

[@sisophous]

The only thing I share in common is the bike computer. The Wahoo Elemnt Bolt is what I also use. It is the older and smaller version in Black and white, not the 2022 model.

[@dets]

1:29 Where can I get that non drive side crank arm cap

[@mikes1984]

thats for the power meter

[@StanislavGrabchev]

7.8 yikes

[@michaelkennedy9064]

Seriously where is Shimano with their 12speed

[@slobodanknezevic6894]

Hello everybody, Im just a random poor guy from Serbia with a 6,9 kg Canyon bike I bought for 1800 euros.

[@seansims8805]

Your my hero tho ...

[@philippbeckonert1678]

: Have fun with it Slobodan :)

[@slobodanknezevic6894]

@@philippbeckonert1678 thanks! ☺️

[@25elektro]

Is there a 1 cm spacer below the stem? Thought, Pros don't need them.

[@frankostyn4466]

What is that datamount?

[@WowRixter]

So now that the front forks are snapping, is there going to be any reporting on this?

[@ClearTheTrash]

a 53/44, Christ, i thought i didnt have enough gearing with a 39. really puts into perspective the difference between you and i, and him. he'll use a 44/28 to climb a 10% grade!

[@pjnice]

Ikr?? I have a 39 as well. I can’t imagine spinning a 53/44 in the Giro

[@nitinmms]

why is there is a venge stem on that bike?

[@davidharrington6273]

Can I have it?

[@JS-tb9hu]

What's the cap on the non drive side crank bolt?

[@kellenhassell]

That cap is related to the integrated DA powermeter. Think it’s the battery component

[@hayes6262]

Think this is an advert to say don't buy this heavy ass bike

[@AllanPhillips]

Giving us the bike weight is a complete waste of time if you don't tell us what that includes. I suspect in this case it includes pedals, bottle cages, bottles, computer mount and computer, and that thing under the saddle. Am I right? If so, then 7.8kg isn't as bad as people are making out.

[@bobbyt7444]

That's bad even fully loaded with everything.

[@oreocarlton3343]

It includes disc brakes.

[@cyclonutterd7075]

Another pro bike at 7.8kg, what's going on - the Tarmac has always been the light climbing bike, they used to add weights to get to 6.8kg, now the bikes have no chance of even getting close to the UCI weight limit.

[@Sam-cy6cd]

Disc brake add a lot of extra weight. Not only the disc itself. U need a stiffer fork and wheels as well!

[@jamesgutierrez7036]

Do filippo ganna Pinarello bolide the blue one

[@stijngies8724]

Do one on the bike of george Bennett that he rides this giro😍

[@P4LL3R]

7.8kg? Were the water bottles full? Seems a bit heavy, even with the Wahoo on the front, so it must be including bottles and everything which is a pretty pointless measurement.

[@Rob-fx5yn]

@@davidzzz94 nope not possible, thats weight with the bottles etc. GCN doesn't know how to weigh bikes, WVA S5 was the same For context, they weighed Alaphillipes bike and that come in at 7.2 with the exact same components but without bottles

[@tehArcher]

@@Rob-fx5yn is Alaphilippe riding a size 56 frame?

[@lsd661]

all in that stem!!!

[@Rob-fx5yn]

@@lsd661 Yes Sagan uses a venge stem that adds weight, but not 600g

[@Rob-fx5yn]

@@tehArcher No but one frame size bigger doesn't ad 600g

[@davomccranko]

Dayum. Dat's hefty. Nearly 8kg despite all the bling.

[@martonbehr8554]

Attila Valter bike check, please GCN! (big fan of Peter Sagan by the way as a Hungarian living in Slovakia 😆)

[@lostboy8814]

Nit picking here.....those bottle cages are the latest Specialized S-Works Carbon Rib Cage III not the II's.

[@oreocarlton3343]

When 7.8 version of disc brakes gets released weight will drop significantly

[@blaablaa1718]

looks so sweet but 7.8 kg has to be some kind of joke. Wouldn't it be better for the brand if they made him a nice light weight stiff bike that enabled him to win races and have the bike sell itself?

[@yNk51]

Asgreen was outstanding this spring on the exact same bike (probably even heavier since he rides a bigger size) and it didn't prevent Alaphilippe to fly to the win in the steep gradients of the Mur de Huy and I fail to mention the rest of the Wolfpack, that lived up to its reputation. Now that was just a bit for the sake of oposing. I do agree that this is a heavy bike, especially considering the specs and the fact that it's als ridden by the gc contenders sponsored by Specialized. No wonder why the Tour de France winners still stick to rim brakes.

[@blaablaa1718]

@@yNk51 rim brakes would take this bike down 500g? Still seems heavy. Good cyclist can overcome disadvantages but this is asking a lot of a rider. These teams are asking UAE and INEOS to just win almost everything

[@jestag2]

An aero bike will only give a small marginal gain so long as the rider is aero both in the kit he wears and in his position on the bike. As with the car industry and in motorsports, nothing beats optimizing power-to-weight ratio so a very light bike will make more sense. The pros are contracted to ride the bike provided by the sponsors but the race results proves what is so obvious.

[@timocallaghan4408]

@@jestag2 Not to mention that those marginal aero gains are based on solo riders over 40 km time trials. How often do pros try to win a stage with a 40km solo attack.. Almost never. It's always a few hours in the peleton followed by a selection either on an ascent or a quick attack, where weight is key

[@jestag2]

@@timocallaghan4408 Agree... this proves the point that it doesn't make sense to make the most aerodynamic race bike at the expense of weight.

[@marcuswong1797]

Poor guy... no more special bike for Sagan no more.

[@involuntarysoul3867]

special paint adds over 100g of weight

[@nitinmms]

the handle bar is the new roval rapide handlebar. see at 2:05

[@nitinmms]

and 2:13. it is written on it

[@GCPerformance18]

That’s a venge stem

[@turner02]

Bland heavy bike.

[@fyahwerks]

What is the rim depth?

[@bjsr126]

Same as last year I'd say, 50mm Front, 60mm rear. (Bigger on the rear is for stability purposes)

[@gcnracing]

The new Rapide CLX's are 60mm rear and 51mm front - slightly different widths to to make them as aero as possible when fitted!

[@markrobinson3920]

Wrong about the handlebars! They’re roval rapide bars not aerofly

[@colinsmith8908]

Either those scales are out of calibration or those two 500ml bottles are full. I think I know the answer.

[@Chrissummerill]

Or disc brake bikes are just heavier.

[@benhardwick1970]

@@Chrissummerill yea not a whole kg heavier though surely

[@Chrissummerill]

@@benhardwick1970 yes. Wout’s race bike earlier in the year was over 8kg. Bike industry is mental at the minute.

[@benhardwick1970]

@@Chrissummerill disc brakes are 400-500 grams max heavier

[@Chrissummerill]

@@benhardwick1970 then the extra frame weight. I don’t know why they are making them heavier, but they are. I’ve got an aluminium Allez Sprint with Ultegra which is the same weight as this bike. 🤷‍♂️

[@mdfarhan100]

dok komeng beghak.. sagan nengok mung kayuh pung senyum jer.. sembang.. mung beskal ringan pung cungap..

[@roborovski008]

lek lu boh hahahaha

[@mdfarhan100]

hahahaha.. ade gok saing sini.. 👍

[@roborovski008]

@@mdfarhan100 bereh boh, mat ri ye

[@mdfarhan100]

@@roborovski008 mat ye.. 👍..

[@adolfrichtar3731]

The stem on Sagan SL7 is NOT Tarmac, but 2019-20 VENGE.

[@YourVeganFoodExplorer]

I love disc brakes. It means my £750, 2015 Rim Brake Planet X Pro Carbon is now lighter than Peter Sagan's race bike 😆😆

[@mrrodriguezHLP]

GCN: Discs are better in the rain. Especially in the English countryside. Cyclists from Los Angeles: People ride in the rain? The rest of LA: There are places where it rains?

[@HPmovies1]

It's not a aerofly 2 onlny aerofly

[@khalidelamri7883]

Mad to think that his 2017 Tarmac was a kilo lighter at 6.8kg...The bike industry in my opinion is going backwards when it comes to racing.

[@ItachiGT]

Who cares? The fools with too much money eat up all the marketing. The Pros have no choice, they ride whatever they get, obligated to do so except for INEOS.

[@treyxt]

that's a venge stem, not tarmac

[@sukjoonkim9622]

SL7 tarmac has a same stem with venge. you can google it for SL7 tarmac stem and will find it same.

[@stevec6232]

Seems a bit heavy for top spec bike...he'll feel that extra kilo in the mountains!

[@ezraholwerda1512]

It's the wheels

[@ezraholwerda1512]

And that transponder could be like 200 grams

[@bobbyt7444]

7.8kg or 17.1 lb race bike is disgraceful. #savetherimbrake

[@philipprudenciano8097]

Wish I have it😢

[@mr_marcrivera]

You could work hard and not beg for bikes mate, or just earn money and buy a new Tarmac SL7. They don't listen to people who are begging for bikes

[@vukgrujic2957]

7,8kg??? we are going backwards...

[@SebastienRamsamy]

7.8kg? For £10000+ 😳

[@stephenmclennan9029]

Where is the color?

[@JC-pm5sh]

Gloss black / Matt Black

[@sebibuchs]

yeah right, previous verisons of sagan were more beautiful, but I believe they have to at least save the weight of the paint haha in order for it to be under 8kg, so raw carbon and just a bit of gloss

[@JC-pm5sh]

@@sebibuchs IF you want to save the weight, go buy Factor 02 VAM. 6kg with pedals. Game over Sworks.

[@Led899]

7.8 kg and it isn t a full aero bike.... ooooook

[@mocha-6957]

Ahaha disc brakes go brrr

[@Tyler-vn4ke]

Do Elia Viviani DeRosa SK Pin

[@eddedd3531]

A bike custa mais que minha casa.

[@VanillaSky23ffm]

Specialized renowned for using threaded bottom bracket???? Since when?

[@matt-10229]

GCN talking rubbish again.

[@gcnracing]

Maybe renowned is a bit far, but to be fair - before about 2010/2011, pretty much everything Specialized did was threaded; and now they're fitting it to all their current bikes, and will continue to going forward.

[@gcnracing]

@@matt-10229 Thanks for the feedback, Matt 👍

[@matt-10229]

@@gcnracing don't want to sound harsh, but lately too many mistakes are getting into videos which should've not made it into he script if it was proofed more thoroughly. Specialized only went to threaded BBs in the last few years and have done so only on S-Works edition bikes. The videos are starting to resemble adverts more than they are informative videos about a riders set-up.

[@matt-10229]

@@gcnracing maybe check a comment I put on yesterday's tech show for more context.

[@robertocuaresma5086]

Puffff, too heavy

[@rolandcolavizza5368]

wtf 7.8kg no wonder peter cant win anything nower days # disc brakes for the loss. and on specialized website they say its 6.7kg what a lie .

[@matthewlewis2072]

That's for a bike without pedals, Velon, Bottles, Wahoo... Oh, and better brakes = faster, in any sport.

[@Imthekingofdogshite]

@@matthewlewis2072 better brakes = faster.... not on a mountain top finish though. Or by your logic if only Bernal had better brakes he’d have been even faster on stage 9 of the Giro yesterday 🤣

[@tonyendean7052]

Do you think there is any truth that the s works sl7 frame what some of the pro's use is not the same as the ones you can buy in shops. Ie: diffrent lay-up and resin etc.

[@kellenhassell]

No

[@sirchristophermcfarlane9377]

Most likely not but I believe the frames supplied to the pros went into stricter QC because if anything fails, the company will embarrass themselves.

[@rli6951]

no way this bike is near 7.8... my foil is just about 7.7

[@hambunheng1653]

Pathetic! Giving a $13,000 bike that weights 7.8kg to Sagan.

[@philippbeckonert1678]

: You are getting ridiculous. How on earth can a pro bike from 2021 weigh 7,8kg? You have to have meassured it wrong or with bottles or whatever. You really need to start telling what was on the bike when you've weighed it or else it makes absolutely no sense. - 7,8kg that's just ridiculous. - Also, threaded BB now that's a big big plus for Specialized. For my next bike only frames that come with a threaded BB will come into consideration. And it will have to be lighter than my old 7,4kg bike(in training mode) from 2009. 7,8kg for a bike that costs 10k+$... there are full on motorbikes that cost way less and cars that cost only 20% more and this is "just a bike" with almost no moving parts compared to an engine :D

[@seansims8805]

Sagan is a very strong and not a light weight person so he probably likes all balance of said weight ...he is on a 56 with large components...huge chain rings long stem can't go soft with that man ...he was a MTN champ too...used to more bike

[@Ditypo]

is it me or are pro bikes pretty fat these days?

[@martinstaveley6525]

What's with all the 'wow it weighs 7.8kg'? I carry three times that round my waist!

[@TheMASDrummer]

Sl7 is the worst tarmac they've made

[@liviosido763]

Wtf

[@matthewlewis2072]

Don't buy one, then

[@hedleykerr3564]

Those are tubulars on that bike!

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

Nope. Specialized hasn’t made tubular wheels in that range of Wheelset. The front rim width is much wider than the conventional and it’s also wider than the rear rim. That bike is a complete flop.

[@kellenhassell]

No, they’re clinchers

[@B506Basstards]

The bike is 6.8kg with bottles it's 7.8kg

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

Size 56 weighs 7.1kg without accessories. I put it on the scale in the store. It’s a venge. The aethos is the tarmac.

[@henrikolsson6513]

My Sworks SL7 with heavier wheels is 7,2 in size 56 so that bike is not 7,8kg without full bottles

[@arthurvermeulen1405]

Notting special....

[@dirkdewever9922]

my s-works sl6 weighs 7.1kg with pedals, garmin mount and bottle cages... SL7 is a joke. only fanboys will say otherwise...

[@DanaBlack]

My SL7 also weighs 7.1kg with Faveros Assioma Duo pedals, Garmin mount and Garmin 830 and bottle cages.

[@giuseppepennisi8699]

Specialized made a complete flop on this bike. They managed to release the aethos which should sort that abomination of a road bike and put things back where specialized should be recognised . So many people still bought the sl7 and It just goes to show how powerful marketing is.

[@invalice123]

It might be the worst Tarmac SL bike in recent memory.

[@marcelr.9035]

7.8kg is pathetic

[@willkruisbrink4397]

Lol at all these commenters complaining about the weight like all these riders aren't absolutely smoking climbing & course records on these bikes. Go look at WVA's Cervelo S5; that bike weighs over 8kgs and he's doing fine.