Julian Alaphilippes’s Specialized S-Works Tarmac | Pro Bikes of Tour de France | Cycling Weekly

The Yellow Jersey holder, Julian Alaphilippe rides this stunning Specialized S-Works Tarmac. Would you take this over Sagan’s S-Works Venge? | Subscribe to Cycling Weekly here: https://www.youtube.com/user/CyclingWeekly1?sub_confirmation=1

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[Applause] Currently the world’s number one ranked rider Julian a lovely just like the rest of his de Kooning quickstep teammates has the choice of specialized race bikes and he’s opted for the new tarmac for the 2019 Tour de France so let’s take you through a few of the bits of his

Bike this is a design that’s been around for a couple of years but has proven itself to still be one of the fastest bikes in the peloton like the rest of his teammates they’re running the disc frame here and there is a few special details about this particular bike first

And foremost is the paint job so this is what separates students bike from the rest of the de Kooning quickstep team rather than the standard blue and black fella scheme he’s done for a very very cool gloss blue to black fade paint job it’s a lot more understated than the

Rest of team but it certainly stands out from the crowd it’s a 52 centimeter frame and Julian runs a 71 point 6 centimeter saddle height and the reach from the saddle to the handlebars is around about fifty two point four centimetres it’s not as low as some of the other bikes in the

Peloton as you can see he runs spaces underneath the stem and that stem itself is only a hundred millimeter along the front pro that’s the Shimano components Julian runs a 40 centimeter wide handlebar and as you can see he also runs his shifters slightly inboard to

Give a slightly more flayed feel to the levers when he’s either sprinting or going for those breakaway stage wins going through a few of the other parts on here you can see that there’s a full Shimano dura-ace group set that’s the DI 2 version sits the electronic one

He’s running a 1 72.5 crank arm length so very very standard and there’s a 5339 chain rings at the front where is some of the other riders definitely opted for like this slightly sort of faster 11 to 28 just set on the bank Julian’s actually optioned to go for the 11 to 30

So he’s got a slightly more easiest gear as we said there’s the disc great freshness this is the Shimano hydraulic this brakes run in a 160 ml rotor up front 140 mm right or the rear to connect quickstep were also sponsored by row Val wheels this is specialized will section and these

Are the CLX 50s he’s running on here so the 50 millimeter deep carbon 5 deep section wheels running Shimano’s chavo tires as well in the tubular form and as you can see these are the 26 mil so there is a wider tire but they still do

Come up pretty much like most brands 25 millimeters on top of the aerodynamic specialized seat post he’s running a specialized Roman saddle super cache is the provider of the bar tape on here now super cache for those people that might not know it’s a brand that’s actually

Owned by the son of Mike Simeon who is the owner of specialized just like every team to hear any quick steps riders rely on power meters and this is the Shimano parameter that you can see on giulianelli bike the final thing you can see is the K edge computer mount now

This is in the French tricular colours and there’s a really neat super thin K edge junction box holder just underneath the stem keeping things as light as possible so there you have it Julian ala Philippe’s super special specialized s-works tarmac [Applause]