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Specialized Roubaix Comp
Cycling Plus
|May 2017
The shock of the new
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Specialized’s front suspension system was so new when we first tested it that it didn’t have a name. Well, it does now – the somewhat science fiction sounding ‘Future Shock’. And while cycling’s tendency towards hyperbole means the word ‘revolutionary’ is overused, in the case of Specialized’s Future Shock it’s justified.
This story is from the May 2017 edition of Cycling Plus.
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