This is generation seven of the Specialized Roubaix, a platform that debuted in 2004. Great fact, I know, but in searching it out I came across something that I think really is interesting: a 2009 review of an S-Works Roubaix SL2. Its price? £5,499.99. Insane money. But now?
This all-new Roubaix SL8 is £6,000. OK, so it’s not the S-Works version – that is insane money at £12,000 – and it weighs a kilo more than that SL2. But it does have disc brakes, wireless gears, carbon rims, a power meter, tubeless tyres, front and rear suspension and aerodynamic tube profiles.
Then, another fact: the average price of a pint in 2009 was £2.83; today it’s £4.87. Anyway, food for thought. And on to the review…
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It seems like such a cliché now, but the new SL8 is less a bike re-engineered
