SL2 side profile

Specialized has shown the competition a clean pair of heels in the Sportive bike market for several years with their S-Works Roubaix SL. However, as sportive event popularity has boomed, so too has the amount of focus from other manufacturers on specific bikes for this kind of riding.

Specialized could no longer sit back on the success of the old design, and needed to better its own benchmark to stay at the head of affairs in this complicated category. So, for 2009 the S-Works Roubaix SL2 tops the range, a complete revamp on the 08? model.

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