Specialized Venge Pro

‘AERO IS EVERYTHING’. That’s the tagline that Specialized have touted since the release of the first Venge aero bike ahead of the Milan-San Remo race back in 2012, marrying the responsiveness of the American company’s Tarmac road bike with a healthy dose of speed and extra stiffness. That bike came out of the blocks at full speed, propelling Matt Goss to victory in its very first race, and was an absolute cracker of a machine.

The second Venge was more problematic. Now equipped with their very own wind tunnel, Specialized’s engineers set out to build the fastest road bike they could. They succeeded – the Venge ViAS was an exceedingly fast bike. However, it was a flawed beast. The complex tube shapes meant the bike was fairly