Pro Bikes: Jaroslav Kulhavy’s Specialized Epic

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We grabbed Olympic Gold medalist, Czech national champion and current UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Champion Jaroslav Kulhavy’s Specialized S Works Epic World Cup for a quick once over straight after the Roc d’Azur marathon.

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Nice custom splatter

Although fairly stock the bike has a very nice and custom paint splatter paint job. Have you checked out that saddle angle?

Slammed much?
Slammed much?
headset top cap removed to get his slam on
headset top cap removed to get his slam on

There’s some serious slamming going on with the stem to get a long and low pedalling stance going on. ESI grips are an XC racers favourite for weight saving and comfort.

Wide and flat
Wide and flat

With a good width of bar and SRAM Guide brakes chosen in favour of lighter XX offerings.

Brain
Brain

Brain internals are a Specialized speciality.

SID not RS1
SID not RS1

For Roc the RS1’s have been swapped out for a more conventional SID.

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34t ring up front
34t ring up front

Also different to his Meribel set up, he wasn’t running a Quark XX1 powermeter.

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SWAT

A SWAT MTB XC kit carries all the self sufficiency essentials.

Standard XX1 out back
XX1 and X01 out back?

And is that an X01 cassette matched to XX1 everything else?

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Fox Futureshock with autosag

 

 

fast tyres
fast tyres

Renegade 1.95 tyres for speed.

Fast up front too
Fast up front too

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