Celebrating 50 years of involvement in Grand Prix racing and Formula 1, McLaren has once again teamed up with bike manufacturer Specialized. Together, they created a road "special" that will make even professional cyclists drool. Introducing the S-Works McLaren Roubaix bike.
The bike is dressed in orange color"Heritage Orange", similar to the one worn by McLaren racers in the late 1960s. Because companies McLaren and Specialized they work closely together, they are the latter for development and production S-Works by McLaren Roubix borrowed McLaren's computer capabilities and used them to calculate a bike efficiency model. The frame and fork of the bike are made from the latest carbon fiber FACT 11r, owned by Specialized. He has a bike 12 x 100 and 12 x 142 axes, hydraulic disc brakes and S-Works carbon pedals. If all this cycling jargon is too foreign to you, just imagine that the Roubaix set-up is somehow as sophisticated as the set-up McLaren 720S.
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The Roubaix has handlebars that are wrapped in leather and he has as well orange stitches, to match the rest of the bike. Rims Orval CLX 32 it is supposed to represent the look of the bikes that McLaren racers had decades ago. The gear system is Shimano's Dura Ace Di2, which are currently the best gears in the world and are partially even made of ceramics. A Specialized bike like this is definitely not cheap. Over the pond, the price for him is just 11.500 US dollars, what the price will be in continental Europe, we will have to wait a little longer.
Image gallery: S-Works McLaren Roubaix
More information:
specialized.com