Specialized was founded in 1974, the top bicycle brand in the United States, known as the BMW of the bicycle, the English original meaning is "professional", because the LOGO icon is the shape of lightning, domestic riders call it "lightning". Specialized manufactures bikes in almost every category, with lineups ranging from entry-level to pro.
 
If you're a regular fan of cycling events, you'll be familiar with the S-WORKS logo. S-WORKS is an abbreviation for Specialized Works, which means "professional work", and it is a weapon created by Specialized for professional riders, who have won all the prestigious cycling championships. There are hundreds of bicycle brands, and two of the world's 18 Tier 1 teams in the road bike world use S-WORKS – Quickstep and Bora. In nearly 2017, in nearly 200 UCI World Tour races, lightning drivers slashed a quarter of the single-stage championships, and professional lightning vehicles are the magic weapon for drivers to defeat the enemy!
 
Nowadays, road bikes have already entered the era of carbon fiber, although they all look similar, but the technical gap between different manufacturers is very large, in addition to carbon fiber grades and processing links, the gap is also reflected in the frame design. Specialized's decades of experience in carbon frame design have culminated in their proud "FACT" carbon fiber technology, which uses carbon fiber with different modulus and stacking methods according to the forces at different positions, in order to balance the seemingly contradictory indicators of stiffness, lightweight, and comfort.
 
Specialized has industry-leading aerodynamics, the development team uses fluid dynamics calculations (CFD) and on-board data acquisition (DAQ) to assist the design, and has its own wind tunnel, designers can put the design into CFD in the morning to verify, and then 3D print a prototype, put it into the wind tunnel to measure before the end of work, to achieve rapid iteration of the design.
 
The frame design of a high-end road bike is far from being as simple as it seems, and from design to mass production, the length and thickness of each tube type and the arrangement of carbon fiber often take several years of polishing. Specialized's carbon bikes all feature a technology known as "rider first." In the past, the same model was often soft in large sizes, stiff in small sizes, and the riding experience of the largest and smallest models was hugely different, in order to get a consistent riding experience for each frame, the lightning team adjusted the frames of nearly ten sizes of each model individually, which also multiplied the design workload.
 
There are many design details in the frame other than parameters, sometimes we are inevitably curious why the same carbon fiber, some thousands of yuan for the whole vehicle landing, and the top brand of a single frame has to tens of thousands of yuan, in addition to the gap in terms of production and profit channels, the design itself is very different.
 
Lightning's most famous road bikes are the Venge, Tarmac and Roubaix series, which are responsible for the drivers' championships. The Venge is an aerodynamic bike for sprinting on flat roads, the Tarmac is a lightweight, stiff hill climber, and the Roubaix is an endurance road bike with a geometrically comfortable geometry and a "Future shock" shock with 20mm of travel.
 
Of course, the version used by professional drivers can have the "S-WORKS" logo on the front, but where the frame is printed with this logo, it is absolutely impressive, and the price of the whole vehicle is often 50,000 or 60,000 yuan, as the top World Tour vehicle, this price is understandable, and most of the other brands of Tour de France class vehicles are also at this price point or even higher. The Tour de France class vehicles are basically equipped with top-of-the-line carbon fiber wheels, power meters, radio transformers and other expensive accessories, while the ordinary version ranges from more than 10,000 to tens of thousands of yuan depending on the configuration.
 
The principle that you get what you pay for is vividly reflected in bicycle products, the more expensive it is usually the better, but the higher the price, the less obvious the improvement. The entry-level carbon fiber model priced at more than 10,000 yuan is undoubtedly the most cost-effective choice for advanced consumers, sharing the design and technology of flagship products, with the same appearance and pedigree, and the price has dropped significantly, but there is a reduction in material grades and kit specifications, but it is not easy for non-professional riders to notice. Consumers should choose reasonably according to their own level, after all, people are much more important than cars in cycling.
 
Specialized is not an unattainable brand for ordinary enthusiasts, and its aluminum alloy entry-level ALLEZ series is also cost-effective, with prices starting from more than 3,000 yuan, compared with domestic brands in the same price segment, the configuration will be slightly lower, but the frame design is more elegant, and the performance of some high-end aluminum alloy frames is not even inferior to the carbon fiber level of 10,000 yuan.
 
A professional driver often has more than one road bike, with lightweight models for climbing and pneumatic models for flat road sprints. If you're a Buddhist health rider, it's not recommended to buy a pneumatic model, and this idea applies to all brands. Pneumatic car relative to the climbing model, often heavy weight, riding posture biased to attack, not suitable for long-term riding, its advantages to be greater than 30km/h before starting to play, and the benefits of lightweight can be enjoyed all the time, as for the endurance road bike can be well adapted to complex road conditions, relatively comfortable geometric settings can allow ordinary riders to ride farther, but also the ideal choice of ordinary riders.
 
Specialized has a certain number of stores in China, which is much more accessible to European brands that do not even have a Chinese website, and the purchase in the online store must eventually pick up the car in the physical store, which also ensures that each car can be well tuned when it arrives, and it is also convenient for future repair and maintenance.