This is undoubtedly a great bike, light, responsive, a pleasure to ride. BUT if you are thinking of ordering one online and you have never before assembled a bike, think twice. The website claimed something along the lines that the bike would arrive almost complete, and that only minimum assembly would be required. Not true. Among simpler tasks, it required complete assembly and tuning of the shifting and braking systems, and routing of the corresponding cables. AND, the worse part is that there were absolutely NO instructions. The bike comes with some very incomplete general instructions and directs you to a Specialized webpage that had generic and largely non-applicable directions. The Shimano shifters came with a tiny piece of paper that gives a web address, supposedly with assmbly and tuning instructions, which are outdated, incomplete and in any case worthless. Similar but even worse for the Tektro brakes. I am mechanically savvy, and do much of the maintenance on my cars. Even then, having never before assembled a bike I had to spend a long time online searching for "how to" guides to be able to succesfully put together and tune the bike. As I said, it rides great, and if I had to assemble another one I could probably do so in a tenth of the time that this one took me. But if you have never tackled this jobe before, be warned. It won't be easy,

The ultimate racing machine within your budget! Reliable for daily use and effortlessly upgradable.

Love this bike!

As someone who is getting more into cycling and loves speed but also practicality, the Allez offers that all (for me). On the more affordable side for the amazing features you get. It rides well and I can definitely see me taking this long distance and still be comfortable and happy.

Fast, light, comfortable! Definitely a great value and certainly worthy of upgrading.

Bought the Allez 10 years ago I have over 20,000 km on her. Did many triathlons and distance rides. The bike is great.

Needed a bike for my son getting into road cycling. Sad no Allez JR now, but 44cm in new allez fit just right! So many mechanical shifting bikes have "hidden" cables these days making maintenance such a hassle. Love that spesh kept things simple with classic cabling on their budget bikes. We will upgrade the wheels soon and saving up for the new 105 12 speed with hydro line brakes down the line. My son loves the bike and maybe his little sis will ride it one day too.

I had been looking for a bike for quite some time that had both disc brakes, was light, and had the gear shifters with the brakes that wouldn't cost me over $3k. This was a great purchase, I got everything I was looking for at a great price and I have been riding on the new bike and it has been a great experience.