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Smoothly does it

With barely time to take a breath, Specialized has followed its latest Tarmac race bike with an update to its Roubaix design. While the marketing tagline for the new bike might be ‘The Science of Smooth’, it could just as easily have been ‘If it ain't broke…’, because while the bike goes further into all-road territory, this is less a design reinvented as it is re-refined.

As per the previous Roubaix, the Future Shock front

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