Nothing is faster than the Tarmac SL8.
After eight generations and over two decades of development, it’s more than the fastest Tarmac ever - it’s the world’s fastest race bike. Aerodynamics or lightweight alone don’t win races - speed is what matters. Delivering that speed requires creating an uncompromising combination of aerodynamics, lightweight, stiffness, and compliance.
Through race simulations using real world data, the Ride Science team knows the Tarmac SL8 is the fastest race bike ever made on the routes that matter - 16.6 seconds faster over 40km, 128 seconds faster over Milan San Remo, 20 seconds faster over the legendary Tourmalet climb. The Tarmac SL8 took learnings from Aethos to be easily built at the UCI minimum with a full aero set up. The team delivered a mind-bending, scale-tickling 685 gram frame - 15% lighter than the Tarmac SL7.
With massive gains in stiffness-to-weight - an improvement of 33% over the SL7 - the Tarmac SL8 takes legendary handling, aggressive responsiveness, and World Championship proven geometry to the next level. Thanks to Rider-First Engineering, every rider, regardless of size, gets the same unprecedented ride quality and handling.
Features:
- Aero in everything: optimized for maximum advantage with the Speed Sniffer.
- Minimum weight, maximum aero: 685 gram frame, 15% lighter than SL7.
- Goes like hell, rides like heaven: 33% improvement in stiffness-to-weight.
- Beyond gender: designed for all riders, not gender-specific.
- 68mm threaded bottom bracket, flat mount disk brakes, seamless integration.