When Specialized launched the S-Works Aethos two weeks ago it threw a curveball at the cycling industry. An alternative approach to the bike design ethos and some seriously impressive performance ...

Once you get over the fact that part of what made it stand out from the crowd has gone, the Specialized Aethos 2 is about as unsurprisingly good as road bikes come. It’s extremely impressive if you ...

Specialized has unveiled the new Aethos 2 – the lightest road bike it has ever produced, and sporting several new modern features that bring it up to date with 2025 road bike design trends. This has ...

When Aethos 1 arrived in 2021 Specialized had just shelved the Venge, its all-out aero platform, replacing it with a one-bike-to-rule-them-all strategy, in the new aero-optimised Tarmac SL7, then SL8.

When Specialized unveiled the Aethos in 2020, it was an unexpected bike. Specialized is heavily invested in competition, and it is famous for declaring “aero is everything.” Yet the Aethos was a ...

On October 8, 2020, Specialized shook up the performance cycling category when it released the original Aethos. Specialized had long declared “aero is everything,” but the Aethos was a premium road ...

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