BikeRadar Meets Podcast | Specialized's road and gravel lead John Cordoba

We chat to the man behind some of the most important road bikes in recent times

The 2021 Specialized Diverge Pro Carbon.

Specialized

Tom Marvin

Published: June 22, 2020 at 11:13 am

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John Cordoba is Specialized's project manager for road and gravel, and the guy that sets the vision for its latest bikes, outlines the design and engineering goals, and then works with the R&D team, engineers, and designers to make it all happen.

John sat down with our senior road technical editor, Warren Rossiter, in our latest podcast, and key to their discussion was the Roubaix, including a bit of history of the bike, its racing success and what it took to make the 2020 Roubaix.

Plus, they chat about the Future Shock suspension on the brand-new Diverge, Sirrus, as well as ebikes…

2021 Specialized Diverge Evo on white background
2021 Specialized Diverge Evo – a flat-bar gravel bike. - Specialized

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Tom Marvin

Senior technical editor

Tom Marvin is a technical editor at BikeRadar.com and MBUK magazine. He has a particular focus on mountain bikes, but spends plenty of time on gravel bikes, too. Tom has written for BikeRadar, MBUK and Cycling Plus, and was previously technical editor of What Mountain Bike magazine. He is also a regular presenter on BikeRadar’s YouTube channel and the BikeRadar podcast. With more than twenty years of mountain biking experience, and nearly a decade of testing mountain and gravel bikes, Tom has ridden and tested thousands of bikes and products, from super-light XC race bikes through to the most powerful brakes on the market. Outside of testing bikes, Tom competes in a wide range of mountain bike races, from multi-day enduros through to 24-hour races in the depths of the Scottish winter – pushing bikes, components and his legs to their limits. He’s also worked out that shaving your legs saves 8 watts, while testing aerodynamics in a wind tunnel. When not riding he can be found at the climbing wall, in his garden or cooking up culinary delights.
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