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With multiple World Cup wins in its inaugural season, the Epic World Cup immediately established itself as the fastest bike in the world for smoother tracks.
The Forward 50 LTD comes in an impressive graphic: the gold represents our 50th anniversary, while the pink recalls our historic Team Stumpjumper and our commitment to racing with an irreverent and rebellious spirit.
These unique bikes are equipped with the best of the best: Specialized/RockShox SIDLuxe WCID rear shock, RockShox SID SL Ultimate 3P fork, Roval Control SL Team wheelset, Roval Control SL integrated cockpit, Roval Control SL seatpost, S-Works Power with Mirror saddle, and CeramicSpeed DUB bottom bracket—ensuring these bikes go as fast as they look.
The Epic World Cup is a purpose-built machine, and its purpose is to win. We challenged ourselves to avoid conventional understanding of what it takes to be the fastest. We embraced the challenge with an unprecedented integrated system approach to frame engineering, a revolutionary shock design, and unparalleled ride dynamics. The result? An unmatched combination of efficiency, control, and lightness. The whole is faster than the sum of its parts.
THINK FASTER:
The Epic World Cup is the fastest XC race bike in the world on smoother to moderately technical courses, thanks to its unrivaled combination of efficiency, control, and lightness. World Champion Christopher Blevins put it best: "This bike gives me everything I could want from a hardtail, plus the control and capability of full suspension."
ASTONISHINGLY FAST:
The Specialized Ride Dynamics team conceived and invented a revolutionary shock technology for the Epic World Cup that gives you the efficiency and quick response of a hardtail PLUS the control, capability, and momentum of full suspension—all with simple setup. Co-developed with RockShox, the SID Deluxe WCID shock uses independently adjustable positive and negative air springs to deliver the coveted "snap" of a hardtail, combined with terrain-gobbling compliance and the ability to easily customize settings for a specific course or rider’s preferences.
PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT:
The Epic World Cup’s 75mm of rear travel offers the control and capability of a much longer-travel bike. Because it’s designed to be ridden in or near the top of the travel, it produces the same positive travel as a 100mm bike with 25% sag. To further optimize suspension performance, the Specialized Ride Dynamics team tuned the spring to be relatively flat in the mid-stroke, allowing it to handle most bump forces like a longer-travel bike. Due to its large size, the custom Mega Jounce Bumper is an "industry first" and is crucial for smoothly managing bottom-out on the biggest impacts.
LIGHTNESS:
With a frame weight of just 1,765 grams (painted with shock and all hardware), the Epic World Cup outshines the lightest competitors. This translates to faster acceleration, more efficient climbing, and more agile handling—all of which translates to speed. We achieved the featherweight and monstrous stiffness of the Epic WC by applying what we learned from developing our Aethos, the lightest production road frame ever made, specifically advanced composite composition and tube shapes.
An astonishingly light 1,765-gram frame, unmatched bottom bracket stiffness, and radical shock technology deliver category-leading efficiency. Thanks to independently adjustable positive and negative air chambers, the Specialized SID WCID shock provides the Epic World Cup with stiffness when needed with terrain-gobbling control and capability, along with the ability to customize settings to match course conditions and riding style.
Compared to a hardtail or shorter travel bike, the Epic World Cup keeps the tires on the ground a greater percentage of the time, which translates directly to more control. More control means more speed. The stiffness of the entire system, from the handlebars to the frame to the wheels, provides an agility and precision of handling that’s hard to match.
With a frame weight of just 1,765 grams (painted, with shock and hardware included), the Epic World Cup outshines even the lightest of its competitors. This translates to a bike with faster, more efficient acceleration and more agile handling. And all that translates to speed.
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