A recent guest on the Rouleur Tech Podcast, where she discussed the bike ahead of the event, you’ll be able to see the machine in the flesh on Specialized’s stand.Īlso making an early appearance in the UK will be the firm’s redesigned Crux. The winner of Kansas’ Unbound Gravel race in 2021, it replicates the ivory and turquoise paint job found on the original Rock Combo. Taking inspiration from the firm’s earlier design, among these will be Ian Boswell’s customised Diverge. With gravel now a huge focus for Specialized, the brand will be bringing the retro Rock Combo along with its latest Crux and Diverge models to Rouleur Live. Something of a vindication for its designers just over three decades later, the Rouleur Live show will present an opportunity to get up close with this historic bike should you have missed it the first time around. With ‘steeper angles and agile handling’ plus clearance for tyres up to 2.2-inches, its marketing spiel sounds remarkably like almost every gravel bike blurb we’ve read in the last five years. Limiting the Rock Combo’s production run to just 500 bikes, this makes it both an incredibly rare and forward-thinking design.ĭescribed at the time as ‘the ideal bike for all tastes’, its makers claimed it was ‘fast on the road and at home on the dirt’. Sadly, it failed to catch the zeitgeist at the time and spent just a single year in Specialized’s catalogue. With drop handlebars, 26-inch wheels, comparatively wide gearing, and a geometry that was more road than mountain, it nailed many of the trends now popular.
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