Shop Soiled: 2024 Specialized Tarmac SL8 Road Bike Frameset - 52cm

Frame is brand new but may have cosmetic damage. No manuals or pedals supplied.

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Your chance to custom build the fastest race bike that combines light weight, aerodynamics and ride quality with the groupset of your dreams.

Many other road bikes make you choose your leading qualities to get you to the podium, meaning you have to compromise somewhere. However, the Tarmac SL8 blends aerodynamics, lightweight, stiffness and compliance to deliver the speed you need to win races. Through race simulations using real world data Specialized's Ride Science team knows the Tarmac SL8 is the fastest race bike ever made on the routes that matter (16.6 seconds faster over 40km, 128 seconds faster over Milan San Remo, 20 seconds faster over the legendary Tourmalet climb).

• Aerodynamics can make all the difference to your ride but only if they are applied to the right places on your bike. Specialized have therefore created their most aerodynamic road bike ever, even more so than the Venge. Clean air is optimised for maximum advantage with the Tarmac’s new nose cone - the Speed Sniffer. The steer tube determines head tube width and by moving it back, 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 Specialized have ever made, ensuring fast moving, dirty air around the legs can flow back more cleanly.
• Tarmac SL8 has adapted knowledge learnt from the Aethos to enable it to be built at the UCI minimum with a full aero set up. The team delivered a mere 685g frame which is 15% lighter than the Tarmac SL7 and lighter than anything on 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 a 585g Aethos frame during a Tour stage.
• With massive gains in stiffness-to-weight giving 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 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 tires when needed.
• There 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.
• 68mm threaded bottom bracket, flat mount disc brakes, and no-hassle seamless integration make the Tarmac SL8 Frameset the ultimate starting point for your dream build.