{"product_id":"s-works-tarmac-sl8-dura-ace-di2-aero-road-bike-2025-13k7x","title":"S-Works Tarmac SL8 Dura Ace Di2 Aero Road Bike 2025","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSpecialized  S-Works Tarmac SL8 Dura Ace Di2 Aero Road Bike 2025\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing is faster than the \u003ca href=\"\/bikes\/specialized\/tarmac\/tarmac-sl8\"\u003eTarmac SL8\u003c\/a\u003e thanks to a combination of aerodynamics, lightweight, and ride quality previously thought impossible. After eight generations and over two decades of development, it’s more than the fastest \u003ca href=\"\/bikes\/specialized\/tarmac\"\u003eTarmac\u003c\/a\u003e ever; it's the world’s fastest race bike. Your legs up for it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAero in Everything:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe’re putting aero where it matters, the leading edge, not just where it looks good. In the process, we’ve created our most aerodynamic road bike ever. Yes, it’s more aero than the Venge. Clean air is optimised for maximum advantage with the Tarmac’s new nose cone, the Speed Sniffer. By moving the steer tube back, the tube that determines head tube width, the leading edge of the head tube can be much sharper, delivering a much lower drag shape. Utilising new UCI rules, the Tarmac SL8 has the narrowest, most aero seat post we’ve ever made, ensuring fast-moving, dirty air around the legs can flow back more cleanly. Doesn’t victory smell sweet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMinimum Weight, Maximum Aero:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTarmac SL8 took learnings from Aethos to be easily built at the UCI minimum with a full aero setup. The team delivered a mind-bending, scale-tickling 685-gram frame, 15% lighter than the Tarmac SL7 and lighter than anything else on the World Tour*. With the ability to make lightweight a top priority in the down tube, seat tube, and rear of the bike, lessons from Aethos were applied. The frame’s shape carries load so efficiently that extra carbon stiffness layers become redundant. *Unless of course you count the time Kasper Asgreen raced our 585-gram Aethos frame during a Tour stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eGoes Like Hell, Rides Like Heaven:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith massive gains in stiffness-to-weight, an improvement of 33% over the SL7, the Tarmac SL8 takes legendary handling, aggressive responsiveness, and World Championship-proven geometry to the next level. The bike is stiffer at the pedals, more precise at the bars, and combines it with a compliant ride in the saddle that sets a new benchmark for race bike comfort. Thanks to our Rider-First Engineering, every rider, regardless of size, gets the same unprecedented ride quality and handling. In the saddle, the Tarmac SL8 delivers 6% more compliance, floating over rough road with a supple feel unique in the high-strung world of race bikes. Tarmac’s proven geometry and 32mm tyre clearance are identical to the SL7, ensuring easy adaptation and the versatility to run higher volume tyres when needed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBeyond Gender:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere can be more difference between two male cyclists than between a male and female. Gender alone doesn’t provide nearly enough data to specialise and that means creating male or female bikes is arbitrary and outdated. Every rider can get the next level advantage of Tarmac SL8. It’s time to go Beyond Gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eS-Works Tarmac SL8 is spec’d with only the best \u003ca href=\"\/components\"\u003ecomponents\u003c\/a\u003e. A full Shimano Dura-Ace 9200 series Di2 groupset with dual-sided power meter and a Roval Rapide CLX II tubeless-ready wheelset is the perfect complement to the world’s fastest frame. All S-Works Tarmac SL8 models ship with a Roval Rapide cockpit to save weight and for the fastest possible leading edge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specialized","offers":[{"title":"54cm \/ Gloss Solidity\/Red to Black Pearl\/Metallic White Silver","offer_id":54294443131226,"sku":"1845800","price":9999.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"56cm \/ Gloss Solidity\/Red to Black Pearl\/Metallic White Silver","offer_id":54294443163994,"sku":"1845801","price":9999.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0956\/0827\/5290\/files\/Specialized-S-Works-Tarmac-SL8-Dura-Ace-Di2-Road-Bike-2025-Gloss-Solidity-Red-to-Black-Pearl-Metallic-White-Silver.jpg?v=1781195606","url":"https:\/\/sigmasportslimited.myshopify.com\/products\/s-works-tarmac-sl8-dura-ace-di2-aero-road-bike-2025-13k7x","provider":"Sigma Sports","version":"1.0","type":"link"}