Tom Boonen's Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4
Boonen hopes for one more cobble trophy
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With four victories of the brutal 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix classic already in the books, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen would make history with a fifth win this year. While not the favoirite — most eyes are on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Peter Sagan or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabian Cancellara — Boonen can never be ruled ౠout for com🎐petition on the cobblestones.
This year he is again racing a Specialized 𝄹S-Works Roubaix SL4, a machine he piloted to victory in 2012.
Sagan and Cancellara have shied away from the electronic shifting of Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 for the cobbles. It's hard to shift any bike with hands and bars rattling across the stones, and mech🍷anical proponents say cable-actuated systems often better feel and more intentional shifting than buttons. Boonen, for his part, isn't bothered. He is running Di2 with sprint shifters on the inside of the dro🃏ps.
The cobblestones don't seem to rattle Boonen much. He was out doing recon with his team on Friday, riding witho𝔉ut gloves across the cobbles.
While most of Specialized Roubaix bikes this year come with disc brakes, B𝔍oonen and his team are sticking with traditional rim brakes. Only Lampre-Merida has gone all in on discs for its racers, testing the waters first and th𝓰e Tour of Flanders and now at Paris-Roubaix.
The rest of Boonen's bike is largely a Specialized affair, fﷺrom the carbon Roval wheels to the 28mm tubulars to the Romin saddle.
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FSAꦰ provides the bar and stem — both alloy, not carbon — and upstar𝕴t company 4iiii has a dual-sided power meter on Boonen's bike.
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Complete bike specifications
• Frame: Specialized S-Works Roubaix SL4
• Fork: Specialized S-Works Roubaix FACT
• Headset: Ceramic Speed
• Stem: FSA OS99, 140mm
• Handlebar: FSA Energy, 44cm (c-c)
• Brakes: Shimano Dura-Ace 9000
• Levers: Shimano Dura-Ace 9070 Di2
• Front derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace 9070 Di2
• Rear derailleur: Shimano Dura-Ace 9070 Di2
• Cassette: Shimano Dura-Ace, 11-28T
• Chain: Shimano Dura-Ace
• Crankset: Shimano Dura-Ace 9070 Di2, 177.5mm, 53/44
• Power meter: 4iiii
• Pedals: Shimano Dura-Ace 9000
• Wheelset: Roval CLX40
• Tubulars: Specialized, 28mm
• Saddle: Specialized S-Works Romin, 155mm