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SOMETHING BORR0WED…

The E5 initials of our 2020 Budget Bike of the Year should be familiar to more experienced riders as the Tarmac E5 was the bike ridden by Classics legend Tom Boonen and his Quick-Step team in 2003. Its mountain bike equivalent, the M5, was also ridden to world championship success in its heyday.

The E5 alloy used today is manipulated and pulled into very

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