Interbike 2013 - Specialized 2014 Line Up

Hey, Bart Miller here with Cycling Strong 2013 Interbike we are having the time of our lives we have got some I mean awesome interviews hope you guys watch small you haven't please go through watch them make the comments below get all those vendors to answer your questions why you got the opportunity so we could not leave the show without talking to specialized I mean come on y'all know I ride specialized s-works race at thing I beat up by Cup love it my son can't wait for me to get a new bike so he can ride it so anyway we found Chris he was running through nice enough to get the second peacetime he's gonna walk us through I think one thing you guys a bit ask a lot of questions about which is the disc brakes what bikes are on how they're working and where is this disc brake market really gonna go I know there's a lot of questions on that a lot a conversation about that so Chris gonna give you the mic Skylar energies guys pretty sharp always dress okay think your copyright has get her to get on a plane so so here's the thing you know for for us it specialized we really want support roe desk and and and everything that it's doing and we've had a lot of questions about you know where does the performance by Anna right and everybody seems to think that it's it's wet weather on all this whether policies sure what you know aerodynamics is a is a big thing for specialized as well but specifically with this great you know we get a lot of questions about how's it gonna help you breaking performance and a lot of people tend to think oh it's only a wet weather thing I don't need it because it's on the web right well we've looked at it and we've taken a lot of time with it and we worked a lot with SRAM in with some of our other companies Shimano to work on their debts brake systems to make sure that when we add it to a bike it's not just gonna end up being a wet weather tool right what we want to do is wanna build bikes are going to provide the most performance to any writer and so in this case this year for 2014 we've got the new as works for Bay as well as a number other a number of other basin the line now we had this breaks these bikes to help improve on what that endurance experience is all about Bay is a bike design forgetting smooth making the bike smooth making fast giving you the best possibility to get out on the road and really enjoy what ride bikes all Catholic yet this breaks to this package now you can dive into a corner deeper you can be on the brakes its more safely right and on your right where you gonna go you can have a lot more fun so to do that it's more than just slapping a disc brake on a bike that we've already had that Mitt totally new development for a fork and on this bike the rebate is it is an interesting animal because depending on the side whether to a bike for someone like Bart or someone like myself or someone even taller we actually have 3 specific fork sizes that's gonna help with smoothness in the front and and that means that when we come to the disc brake bike we got three different forks all designed specifically to deal with the braking forces from those desperate to any slam on a handful a break to dive into a corny wait outside but you really gonna be able to feel the performance the frame as you go to the back into the bike we want to make sure that it's not gonna be compromised by having at this breaks routed through with the big hydraulic line so the same thing here as the cable runs in the frame we want to make it as clear as possible pops out right here at the back and we end up with a really elegant really clean design now another thing that's so great about what their Bay packages comes back to the smoothness that the platform offers and save you look back here we've really taken a lot effort to make sure that these boat seat stays that feature desserts technology end up providing that smooth ride rather than having a couple it with the a balky break bridge like some the cantilever bikes can do this helps to uncoupled back and you can experience a really smooth ride now another thing that really important for specialized and especially when you start looking at the rib experience is what you can expect to retire came tires are really really important and so we expect 26 see s-works turbo tire incredibly supple casing that's going to help this smooth out any road the ego on on top that it's going to be a ton attract we actually had a couple guys in there in in a bike ride last night race on these big supermoto tires you can lead a motor for it day you can get over or so far on time and obeys a great platform to actually show that are so far our own thank you for coming into today let's go talk about some other products now let's go have some fun and one thing I want to ask really quick before you moved on is I at the thing I like about this breaks is I mean I know that we've always had the breaks up here before and how does that affect the frame purse is bringing down here given the braking power here i mean are you is a better worse I mean everything to be a lot better because you don't have to but work being on the actual frame up in here pressure you know if there's there's a lot of forces so when you grab a handful a break on a cantilever style bike up here you're going to get a lot of forces trying to pull that fork forward now its its it's one thing or the other right you've got a deal that breaking course and so here what you're going to get a lot of torsional forces trying to torque that fork are trying to spin it and move that rotation in the fork same thing here we just wanna make sure that we're tech paying attention that's we work in the test like pretty extensively to make sure that the bike and the carbon at the Fort layup is gonna help that to to resist a lot about twisting important in the front and rear what you gonna notice is incredibly strong breaking and wet or dry again and noticed incredibly smooth front and thanks to the different banks eyes those three forts that we talked about and as you feel the whole package added in with the tires desserts technology you're gonna get the smoothest ride out there very cool all right let's move on so hey we're right back atcha you guys all know that I went to did like bill this year and that specialized was all over that and Rebecca Rusch was amazing at that event so at the lead bill camp I was hoping to get a chance actually ride this bike almost you know that I write this car bike right now but one thing I love about these bikes the brain technology the problem was everything was already checked out I was a dollar late in a day late whatever you want to say so I didn't get to ride the bike and then at Leadville I just was the right time either side not actually got on one of these %uh there's not a lot of small frames in the s-works package and you all know me kinda like everything to be the top liner I don't do it you know so anyway I I've been picky I been waiting and hopefully I get all one this year and I can do a review for you but I wanted to make sure we went through this bike because obviously you all know I'm back to cross led bill again this next year and if you're the other major races but let bill is on my list up the bigger Bob Bach also I got Chris here I grabbed him is going to get on a plane want to get him before he got out here so Lisa got an expert to talk about this Chris taken away you bet so as you guys coming apart this year had a guy I pretty stellar race at let down in a break in a chain cost him a little bit I'm but I do wanna talk a little bit about what this epic package is all about so the epic for 2014 is another on the bike for us and what we've actually got is not just one epic but we've actually got to so what you're looking at here is what we call the epic World Cup now on top that we've also got another bike that is the standard model that pic I wanna explain the difference is a little bit between them working off to the epic World Cup that we've got here so we realize when we start to look at you know who rides these bikes right guys like you and i dont wanna do something like that bill but we've also got guys like cures like a hobby right who just won the first World Cup on the new chassis I just last week so guys like you're a slob they want a bike that's going to be the stiffest the fastest lightest thing possible and so we look at what the World Cup is all about we've actually shorten the geometry up about five millimeter shorter than a standard bike you look down here it is only available with the one by drivetrain what that actually allows us to do is remove the placement where we're going to put that front derailleur and then actually allows us to beef up that rear into the bike so the back into the bike here is actually much bigger than what you find on a standard bike so for guys that really wanna go faster race in short short track race is there a sin a full-on full gas cross-country races the epic World Cup platform is going to be the one for you not this bike here as it comes as you're buying a specialized dealers gonna be right around maybe twenty pounds you throw some yes I grips on it you run it to bless you gonna be in nineteen a half pound so think about that for just a second year we gotta at full suspension 29 yr at under twenty pounds that's nothin now when we look at this bike and its other brother which is the standard epic model we started to realize that their guys again like united did level this year that that are gonna need a couple other things we're gonna need at tools we're gonna need the air we're gonna need a palm we're gonna need all that stuff that you need to get through a big long race like a 100 mile at *** so the actual standard apec comes at the ability to slot in a multi-tool up into the shock mount up here so you can always get to it really easily you'll notice that these bikes also have three River nuts and what that's gonna lie to do is to mount not only one water bottle here and one bottle here to two bottles in the cage but you're also gonna be able amount specialized new swat system which is this custom box that fits into the frame to carry a to a tire lever and a co2 had that fits into a really flash package on top of that a bar this will be good for you yup we also came out the new Top Cat chain tool top catching tool fits down takes the place your existing top cap offers you the ability to break a chain if you need to and also has a quick link I know that would've been really helpful song really so once you got all those things added into the standard epic model you end up with a package that is about 22 pounds at the efforts level but you still get that same ultra-fast race style geometry now when you think about those two athletes you got your ultra-fast guys like yours live in then you got us really need speed we need comfort me what that package to be quick another thing that we've really worked on is wheels Rev all wheels for specialized been a big hit and this new package here with the revol control S l's a 1340 Graham carbon wheel that uses are hopeless technology so most people know have the inside of a ram it's gonna look like it's got kinda hot where your bead fits into from the tire these guys go away from that to help at durability and how bad stiffness into the ramsey get a 1340 Graham we'll its gonna outperform just about anybody on the market so that's our new epic model here and so hopefully will get China next year right be awesome so one question I have I really had a problem with this year and maybe this'll be addressed because the way we've done this is I could not get on the small frame obviously two bottles in there cannot were and will I be able to on smaller frame be able to mount a ball in here or am I still gonna be too small cuz the chip geology the bike to on on the bike we got here this is a large size are you can fit two full-size wat about 24 ounce water bottles as we move to the small bike we're gonna be able to fit two bottles but you can have that you have to sacrifice three ounces that okay so three outs from Boulder three houses on the answers on your back pocket now this is a pretty interesting thing I i want to take a look around Rs the show here and look at the number other cross-country bike full suspension cross country bike that fit two bodies don't and not a big deal that is still you look at the apec that's one of the only bikes on the market able to do that now you have to carry Camelback you can use the SWAT system to help carry all your tools you end up getting the best of both worlds a really smooth efficient package with the brain technology in suspension with the super lightweight wheels the super lightweight carbon frame and you end up with an elegant package that holds all your spare tools seen get back on the race recalls so wondering as you all know the reason i ask the question is because the Leadville I measured all my water exactly so I knew exactly what I needed from certain aid station so what is certain times as I pack and one bottle other time goes back into bottles so I had those climbs figured out a way to you know what weight ratios that I wanted to hear in those climb so you know I fought that really hard it you know as you saw I had to put the ball in here turn around it was a nightmare to get figured out so I'm really excited to give that a go at it really fits in there thank you that would be amazing so Chris thank you for your time I so appreciate you take the time out for our audience and I hope all you enjoy this segment we're gonna get specialized the link to this so they can watch it but most of all so they can answer any of your questions if you have a question make sure you put a pillow you can get the experts to answer for you they'll take great care yet and most importantly for both of us is get out there ride your bike and keep cycling strong