Specialized S-Works Crux
It took a Flower of Kent apple falling from a tree and hitting him on the head for Sir Isaac Newton to have his ‘eureka moment’ in developing the laws of motion and universal gravitation. For Specialized engineer Peter Denk, all it took was finite element analysis (FEA), a giant supercomputer and 1,000 simulations to have his own ‘eureka moment’ of reimagined tube proportions and efficient positioning of carbon fibres. The result was the 585g frame at the heart of the Aethos, the world’s lightest production disc brake road bike (see issue 109).
A year later, Denk’s epiphany has been applied to Specialized’s cyclocross
