Sixty-six victories. Fourteen days in yellow. Seven Grand Tour stages. Two Monuments. Number 1 ranked UCI team. 2019 has not just been an incredible year for the 25 riders of Deceuninck - Quick-Step, it's one of the most incredible seasons any team has had in the history of the sport. To honor the team's magical year and our 11-year partnership, we're making a limited-edition Deceuninck - Quick-Step Tarmac Disc frameset that celebrates every win and every rider. Based on the team's 2019 colorway, only 200 of these individually numbered framesets will ever be made, and each will be an instant classic. Frameset No. 1 was presented to the team at the Giro d'Lombardia and will hang in Deceuninck - Quick-Step's Belgian Service Course, a fitting reminder of the team's achievements. The Tarmac Disc, the most complete race bike in the world, is the perfect frameset to celebrate the team's season long success, success that came across the globe—in the mountains of France, on the white roads of Italy, the wide avenues of California, and cobbles of Belgium.
- For the construction of the Tarmac Disc, we utilized advanced aerospace composite optimization software to revolutionize the construction and layup of our new FACT 12r carbon. It's the most advanced material, and schedule, we've ever made, and this allowed us to shed nearly 200 grams—that's right, a 20% reduction in frame weight.
- 500 pieces creating 7 different sizes with the same tuned ride–that’s Rider-First Engineered™. We examine every ply of carbon on every frame size to ensure that all of our performance targets come through. To make sure you get the perfect ride, every frame gets a unique layup schedule with different ply arrangements, orientations, quantities of material in specific areas, and sometimes, even exclusive thicknesses and types of carbon itself.
- Aerodynamics is the most important thing we can do to make you faster, but with the Tarmac, we added aero features without any cost to weight. Through development, three areas were discovered where we could add aero for free—a new fork shape, dropped seatstays with aero tubes, and a D-shaped seatpost and seat tube. The result? A Tarmac that’s approximately 45 seconds faster over 40 kilometers.
- The updated the geometry is based on countless Retül data points and professional rider input. This enabled us to develop a Performance Road Geometry that perfects the combination of a responsive front-end and short wheelbase, which delivers instantaneous response and optimal power transfer.