But in the process he's the one rider in the peloton that everyone is always looking for. Sometimes he's at the front of the race in the spotlight wreaking havoc. While other times he's hiding in the pack like a panther waiting for the right moment to attack.
With the Sagan collection Specialized have developed two different personalities of Peters racing style and transformed them into a collection of products - overexposed and underexposed.
The overexposed collection highlights the star-of-the-show side of Peter, with loud yet elegant silvers, all with touches of rainbows of course. On the other hand the underexposed collection represents the reserved below the radar Peter, with blacks greys and, you guessed it, rainbows. Each piece represents the highest quality in materials from the rainbow-refracting paint to the custom wheels and tires.
Its time to start chasing your own rainbows with the Sagan collection.
The quest for the perfect tube shapes didn’t start in the Wind Tunnel, but with a new piece of technology, the FreeFoil Shape Library. Their engineers wrote an optimization algorithm and utilized a supercomputer to help create new airfoil shapes with different weights, surface areas, and structural targets. Armed with this library of shapes, they could plug them into the different parts of the bike and test a variety of configurations to determine the fastest setup in the Wind Tunnel.
While the Rider-First Engineered™ tubes greatly contribute to the reduction in weight, they also generate a higher a higher stiffness-to-weight ratio and provide 40% more compliance than the ViAS—no matter the frame. And we can't forget the 32mm-wide tire clearance for further compliance.
The new cockpit, developed in partnership with their World Tour teams, features a stem with a higher stiffness than anything ever tested, new bars that are faster, lighter, stiffer, and feature a textured pattern on the tops for extra grip and control.
Compared to their fastest aero road bike to date (the Venge ViAS), and many others in the space that we won't name here, the new Venge is eight seconds faster over 40km at zero degrees of yaw.
Not only did they make the Venge more aero than the ViAS, but they also took 460 grams out of the module weight. This means saving 240g in the frame, 25g in the fork, 107g in the cockpit, 25g in the seatpost, and 63g in small parts—making it the fastest option when you need to go up, down, and all around.