Specialized played the marketing dream card last weekend in Italy at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, starting Christoph Sauser on the revamped Epic for the first time. I’ll accept Sauser rode like a beast and tore the race apart. But, the most visible difference from being outsprinted three weeks prior to winning a world title by 2:55, was a change in bike…
(The man and the machine – Photo by Luke Webber)
Sauser mentioned to me in February while in South Africa to ride the Absa Cape Epic for his own charity initiative, songo.info, that the prototype he tested was a huge inspiration for him. It must have been.
This photo set is worth viewing on cyclingnews.com. Read the article, and then click on the first image. Then keep going next to see all the minor detailed changes from the present Epic, as well as all the tweaks and personalized bits from Benno, the master weight saving mechanic.
Sauser’s personal take on it from his site here.
Cant wait to ride one…
