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Alex Strome

Alex Strome

Director of Road & Gravel products at Specialized Bicycles; leads engineering and product development for Specialized's road and gravel bikes including the S-Works Tarmac line

Jul 1, 2026

19:05
So maybe, Alex, can you talk a little bit about the feedback you get from the riders to make sure that it's the ride quality they're looking for, it's the geo they're looking for? What's that relationship like?
19:15
Yeah, we're super lucky to have close connections to a lot of our riders and just all of our World Tour teams.
19:21
So it makes it really easy to gather feedback and just stay connected.
19:24
I think from their perspective, they trust us to handle, let's say, the aero aspect and run the simulations and have Leo and Marcel really kind of give direction to what the product needs from that perspective.
19:35
But to your point, we're really talking to them about how they're getting fit on the bike.
19:39
We fit every single one of our World Tour athletes in Morgan Hill at team camps in December.
19:44
So we have a ton of data from that and we get a ton of feedback from them.

15 MINS LATER

34:37
Or you can even look back and say, how would someone have performed on this bike in a previous race if they had the SL Mine in their arsenal? Any examples of that? I think there's one specifically, Alex, you have that might be a pretty compelling example of SL8 versus SL Mine.

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