{"id":591979,"date":"2026-04-07T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:49:18","slug":"pro-bike-demi-vollerings-2026-flanders-specialized-tarmac-sl8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591979\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro bike: Demi Vollering&#8217;s 2026 Flanders Specialized Tarmac SL8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FDJ United-Suez wreaked havoc during the women\u2019s Tour of Flanders on Sunday while setting up Demi Vollering for a race-winning attack up the Oude Kwaremont.<\/p>\n<p>With that move, Vollering claimed her first Tour of Flanders title and the third Monument of her career. This continues a consistent streak in the Classics, which has seen the Dutchwoman finish within the top two at every cobbled race she\u2019s entered in 2026. In other words, the ideal preparation for a Tour de France bid in August.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/xavier.pereyron\/\" rel=\" nofollow nofollow nofollow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xavier Pereyron <\/a>snapped Vollering\u2019s bike ahead of Dwars door Vlaanderen last week. She finished second in that race, but she kept her equipment unchanged for her victory at the Tour of Flanders the following Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Demi Vollering\u2019s 2026 Classics Specialized Tarmac SL8<\/p>\n<p>The Tarmac SL8 is expected to have a revamp soon, but for now Vollering is still on her trusty SL8. With her close relationship with Specialized, you can be sure she\u2019ll be one of the first to get her hands on the new bike.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flanders-Womens-Bikes-81-970x647.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248446\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p>The clearance for the Tarmac SL8 is 32mm, the same width used by Vollering throughout the cobbled Classics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flanders-Womens-Bikes-80-970x647.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248448\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclist.co.uk\/in-depth\/demi-vollering-euro-2026-specialized-tarmac-sl8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like at Strade Bianche<\/a>, Vollering was using Specialized\u2019s new Cotton TLR tyres in a 32mm width.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flanders-Womens-Bikes-83-970x647.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248443\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p>As European champion, Vollering gets to enjoy the Euro stripes around the fork. No such details can be found on the hub, on the other hand.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flanders-Womens-Bikes-77-970x647.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248441\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p>The European champion was sporting a 54\/40T crankset during her second-place finish at Dwars door Vlaanderen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"647\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Flanders-Womens-Bikes-79-1-647x970.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248445\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p>Is your cassette as clean as this? I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Race-146-970x647.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-248062\"  \/>Xavier Pereyron<\/p>\n<p>Here she is in action. She attacked away on the Oude Kwaremont and remained solo all the way to Oudenaarde.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FDJ United-Suez wreaked havoc during the women\u2019s Tour of Flanders on Sunday while setting up Demi Vollering for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,22235,289019,85,167262,23293],"class_list":{"0":"post-591979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-demi-vollering","12":"tag-pro-bikes","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tour-of-flanders","15":"tag-womens-cycling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}