But if you're on the hunt for a glorious ride that can smash both a local crit and your friends on the weekends you'll feel right at home on the women's Tarmac disc expert.
In order cut some grams from the Tarmac but to also ensure that it's stiff and compliant in exactly the right places they took major steps to improving the rider-first engineered technology. From different layup schedules and materials to visibly different forks they scrutinized every single aspect of the Tarmac to ensure you're getting the perfect ride. With this revamp they also updated the geometry basing it on countless ret?l data points and professional rider input. This enabled them to develop a performance road geometry that perfects the combination of a responsive front-end and short wheelbase which delivers instantaneous response and optimal power transfer.
And while stiffness aids in the aforementioned compliance must also be utilized for an optimal ride quality. That's why they designed a seatpost that builds compliance into the upper 120mm where clamping doesn't happen dropped the seatstays and altered the seat tube shape. They also added tyre clearance up to 30mm which translates to a 28mm turbo cotton on a Roval c38 disc wheel. This allows lower pressures for decreased rolling resistance increased traction and more comfort. Altogether these additions still have the Tarmac riding like a true race-machine but it also takes a bit of the sting out of road imperfections. You'll thank them on your next long ride.
But why disc brakes? The real question is "why not?" they offer superior braking power and modulation work exceptionally well in wet weather and offer a very very minor weight addition. All this means that you have more control and can go faster with more confidence.
They also know however that aerodynamic improvements are the most important thing we can do to make you faster. The boels-dolmans Pro tour riders after all are demanding aero improvements on every bike. With this the aero goal was to discover where they could essentially "add aero for free" by not taking anything away from the hallmarks of the women's Tarmac design. During the six-month iterative process three areas were discovered where they could do this, a new fork shape dropped seatstays with aero tubes and a d-shaped seatpost and seat tube. The result? A bike that's approximately 45 seconds faster over 40km compared to other lightweight bikes in the same category.
The build spec on this women's Tarmac disc is value-packed featuring Shimano Ultegra mechanical shifting Shimano hydraulic disc brakes a Roval c38 disc carbon fibre wheelset and a host of women's-specific pieces at every touchpoint on the bike like a superlative women's power saddle with mimic technology.