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First Ride: Specialized Venge ViAS Disc
- Updated: July 28, 2016
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Don’t act so surprised. Yes, Specialized invested a great deal of R&D time and money into its integrated rim brakes that graced the first run of Venge ViASes, but the bike was crying out for discs. It got what it wanted, thank goodness.
We were befuddled by the original Venge ViAS brakes, which were hard to adjust and offered inconsistent modulation. That said, our reporters overheard racers at this year’s Tour de France praising updated calipers on their bikes. Better calipers or no, flat-mount Shimano disc brakes are a huge improvement to a bike that performed impressively in the wind tunnel and on the stiffness jig.
On the road, the Venge is vicious — demanding full power on the …
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