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Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4, Part II
For Part I, click here. Evaluating road feel In the past year I’ve ridden roughly a dozen different bikes for 50 miles or more—enough to get pretty familiar with them. Of those bikes (some ...
Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4, Part I
I’m going to be candid. I think it’s fair to say that categorically the head tubes on race-oriented road bikes are too short. To be clear, I’m referring to the bikes that the ...
RKP End of Year Awards
With another year coming to an end, this is our annual excuse to look back and recognize those moments from this year that are worthy of further acknowledgment and/or memorialization, even in ...
The Explainer: Living by Annika’s Rule
“It’s my responsibility and I accept that.” Specialized CEO Mike Sinyard Yup, that’s right. After days of near complete radio silence from Morgan Hill, the chief bigwig at ...
A Trademark Debacle
I’m with my family in Hawaii, theoretically on vacation. I say theoretically because I’ve been at my keyboard and on the phone far more than I promised my wife I would be. And the ...
The Explainer: Because I @#$%ing hate bullies
I was once asked, by a curious high school student, why I went to law school. Maybe my response wasn’t exactly appropriate, but my answer remains the same: “Because I @#$%ing hate ...
Thoughts on Electric Bikes, Part II
Some years back when I was an editor at Bicycle Guide, my colleague Joe Lindsey and I had the occasion to meet with a gentleman hawking electric bikes. He was the head of marketing for some ...
Thoughts on Electric Bikes, Part I
When I was at the Specialized Global Press launch recently, I attended a presentation on the Specialized electric bike called the Turbo. I also had a chance to ride one. The experience of riding ...
The Specialized 2014 Product Launch, Part II
While at Copper Mountain I spent the better part of two days riding mountain bikes. For me, the point to the exercise was to ride a bunch of bikes I was unlikely to actually review, while ...