Specialized tout the Diverge as the fit-it-all gravel bike – be it racing, back roads or slippery singletrack. That’s either a lot for one bike to live up to or the answer to all our gravelly dreams.

For six years now, Specialized has featured a mini front shock absorber known as the Future Shock above the head tube of its gravel bikes. The just-announced Diverge STR, however, also sports a new ...

Last week, Specialized unveiled the 2018 models of the Allez, CruX cyclocross bike and Diverge gravel bike. We offered our initial observations about the new CruX and Diverge in an earlier post, and ...

Sarah Sturm is best known for her mountain biking and cyclocross racing—we saw her win Singlespeed Nationals in Louisville aboard her TenSpeed Hero Specialized CruX last December—but this summer, ...

There are gravel races that are longer than the Dirty Kanza 200, but few combine massive fields, scorching speeds, rough terrain and capricious weather. Specialized Diverge first look Horse for the ...

In recent years the cycling industry has seen a rise in numbers of the so-called adventure cyclists. These riders fall somewhere in between the dedicated road rider and the hardcore mountain biker, ...

Last month, Alison Tetrick raced a red and silver Specialized Diverge at the Gravel Locos race in Texas. But this weekend is the biggest gravel race in the world: Unbound Gravel. The monumental race ...

Specialized has today unveiled its newest iteration of the brand’s longstanding gravel stalwart, the Diverge STR, which showcases Specialized’s first foray into rear suspension outside mountain bikes.