Product Description
The one bike to take you to work, blast around town, let you keep up with friends on longer rides, and even have an off-road adventure. The Specialized Diverge E5 is a gravel road bike with greater ambitions.
The Specialized’s E5 Premium aluminium alloy frame is lightweight and stiff, allowing fantastic power transfer while being compliant and softening bumps along the way. With help from the Roubaix, the new Diverge frame is lighter, stiffer and more durable. The Open Road Geometry takes cues from Specialized’s trail mountain bikes, with slacker a head angle which relaxes and stabilises the steering, for greater predictability. A lower bottom bracket than the previous Diverge as well as short chainstays make it a playful handling bike, one that’s as at home on fire roads as it is on city streets.
The frame comes equipped for adventure, with Plug and Play rack mounts, fender mounts, three bottle cages mounts and massive tyre clearance, large enough for 38c tyres and a load of mud. An easy threaded bottom bracket, flat mount disc mounts, and a 12x142mm thru axle and rear spacing makes the Diverge up to date. The FACT Carbon fork does a wonderful job of minimising vibrations coming from the wheels. It has 12x100 spacing with a thru-axle that helps give the Diverge predictable handling.
The groupset that gets you moving is a Shimano Claris 2x8 speed setup. The cassette in the rear is 11-34T, which gives greater range to take on longer climbs while keeping the momentum on descents. To keep speed in check, the Tektro Mira mechanical disc brakes offer all weather performance, not fading when it gets wet.
Specialized in-house components adorn the rest of the bike, giving a quality feeling to all the contact points.
The Specialized Diverge E5 is an all-round capable bike. It can take on long adventure or short ones; off-road and city streets, in a single playful package.