Pro Bike Tom Boonens Specialized S Works Roubaix Sl2 Custom

The Belgian superstar rode his last ever Tour of Flanders aboard a new Specialized Roubaix which has been redesigned to accept regular rim brakes. He will do so aboard a custom.

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Pro bike tom boonens specialized s works roubaix sl2 custom. Each pav sectors length and location is noted on the top tube. Tom Boonens New Bike. Besides specialized had to build custom Roubaix for Tom Boonen in the past because back in the days the Tarmac wouldnt allow 28mm tires and the standard Roubaix geometry is not suited to most pro riders.

The result is the Specialized Roubaix SL2 a bike that you and I can go and buy at our local LBS. The Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4 has mostly been raced only by the pros at its namesake event. Specialized supplies Boonen with a special 60 Pro frame.

While we saw Tom Boonen race and crash a shiny new Venge Disc in custom farewell livery for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad back in February for the properly brutal cobbled Classics he was bound to end up on the new S-Works Roubaix with its Future Shock suspension for a bit of a smoother ride over the rougher roads of Belgium northern France. Endurance bike lines even further. Now they have the venge with discs there is no need to build a frankenbike again.

S-Works Roubaix Boonen Disc Frameset released. However Tom Boonen and other Omega PharmaQuick-Step riders have come around to feeling that. As a professional rider Boonen often rode prototypical frames newly engineered carbon designs that hadnt even come to.

Rider is happy manufacturer is happy. This is the Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4 that Tom Boonen Omega Pharma-QuickStep was supposed to ride in Sundays Paris-Roubaix. A great write-up on Boonens bike.

They go even bigger for Paris-Roubaix than 42 Boonen rides a 46T inner ring. Jaegher Ascender Pure By Clive Pursehouse Images Courtesy Jaegher If youre Tom Boonen then you can have any bicycle you want. Toms feedback included a longer wheelbase and a super stiff bottom bracket to help with the sprint.

In his last classics campaign Tom Boonen has three custom bikes prepared for him by Specialized his team sponsor. A direct copy of the bike Boonen won Paris Roubaix with. This is the only view of Tom Boonens Omega Pharma-Quick Step Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL4 that most racers saw during Fridays E3 Prijs.

Ad MyZone Offers a Full Range of Training Solutions to Suit Any Budget. S Paris-Roubaix behind Matthew Hayman Boonen was persuaded to give the spring classics on last shot. Sadly itll still be this clean on Monday after he suffered a.

Exclusive images of the S-Works Venge bike Tom Boonen will ride during the 2015 season Richard Windsor February 12 2015 147 pm Tom Boonens custom painted S-Works. On Monday morning he will not be a professional bike racer for the first time in 16 years. Tom Boonens bike is mostly identical to the one he rode to Paris-Roubaix victory in 2012 save the addition of some new much larger tires the result of a special project between Omega Pharma.

Specialized had already developed one custom S-Works Tarmac SL2 geometry late in 2007 for Boonens tall build with a longer top tube and shorter head tube. Custom tweaks blur the race vs. Ad MyZone Offers a Full Range of Training Solutions to Suit Any Budget.

The opportunity looks like it has arisen to acquire a 2010 Roubaix S-Works SL2 frame in a suitable size. Since publishing this article its come to our attention that Specialized has released a limited edition version of the Roubaix complete with the same special paint job but unlike Boonens rim brake version its a. I think this is partly to get the right gear ratio when riding through the sludge but its also to keep down on chain slack for better shifting.

I know theyre good and it seems to be a truism that most middle aged blokes on Tarmacs. Tom Boonens Specialized Tarmac Multiple Cobbled-Classics champion Tom Boonen vied for a fourth Tour of Flanders title aboard a custom painted Specialized S-Works Tarmac. Tom Boonens last Paris-Roubaix is Sunday.

Boonens Roubaix comes with Future Shock which is a spring cartridge that suspends. Heres the Specialized Roubaix bike. Introduced last fall where we had a chance.

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