2005 Specialized Allez E5 SLX

[Meejoir]

After finding a crack in the head tube of the only carbon bike I’ve ever owned, I was feeling a bit peeved. The frame, a rather nice Genesis Zero, was out of warranty and in any case I’d long lost the receipt. However, I did have a full Ultegra groupset set to transplant onto a new project.

I knew I wasn’t going to have another carbon frame, especially a used one, so I started looking at nice steel and aluminium stuff. Then this cropped into view.

Columbus tubing on a Specialized Allez? Surely some mistake? But apparently, on closer inspection it was Columbus Squadra Corse which is an alloy. I’m not usually a fan of Specialized but I’ve not seen many silver ones out and about.

Anyway, two days later it was in the garage and I was well chuffed. Considering it was a 2005 frame it was looking modern-ish cutaway seat tube. The bloke I bought it from said the guy before him had imported it from America. Who knows?

Anyway, very pleased with final results.

 

[MartinB123]

Nice. A mate of mine has got one of these and I'm a fan!

 

[ChromeChainstay]

very nice, i'd ride that if it was a 51cm

 

[Canuk]

I've had two of these over the years, the Columbus tubing really makes for a lively and comfortable ride. I paired mine up with a pair of Time Carbon field and it was a really zippy bike

 

[Meejoir]

Excellent. I have some relatively period-correct ITM Vista carbon forks which I might try out, depending how the current ones fare.

Did you have the silver version or the red livery of the Allez?

 

[Canuk]

I've had both, but prefer the silver though