Specialized Women's S-Works 6 review

Designed for the pro peloton and raced by the cycling elite, there is no denying that the Specialized Women's S-Work 6 is top end in every sense of the word

Cycling Weekly Verdict

The Specialized S-Works 6 road shoes are the ultimate performance cycling shoes, power transfer is faultless and they're incredibly secure. But with every detail performance driven there’s little space for all-day comfort, making them an out-and-out thoroughbred pair of race shoes.

Reasons to buy
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    Lightweight

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    Über stiff

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    Snug

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    Millimetre adjustability

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    Secure

Reasons to avoid
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    Minimal padding

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    Expensive

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The Specialized S-Works 6 race shoe has a traceable lineage back to the pro peloton with both male and female versions worn by the likes of Peter Sagan and Lizzie Deignan and, as the name would suggest, this is the sixth incarnation of the Californian company's high-end performance-oriented collection.

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Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection.