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The big red ‘S’ of Specialized is hard to miss – go to any cycling event and you’d need to be somewhere pretty obscure to dodge the sighting of at least a few of the brand’s creations.

The first bikes arrived in 1981 – in the shape of the Specialized Allez road bike, Sequoia touring bike and Stumpjumper mountain bike.The geometry offers a slightly more upright stance, as well as a lower standover height.Specialized has used ‘Zertz inserts’ at the fork and seat stays to dampen out road vibrations.The Ultegra Di2 model, the Venge Pro, comes in at £6,500 and there’s a ‘Sagan Collection’ model with a premium paint job.Though most models have seen updates since, when we directly compared a host of aero road bikes, the Venge came a very close, almost negligible, second to the Trek Madone.