Nothing is faster than the Tarmac SL8 with its perfect combination of aerodynamics, lightweight, and ride quality.
After eight generations and over two decades of development, it’s more than the fastest Tarmac ever—it’s the world’s fastest race bike, and now it’s available in a gorgeous, limited color with all-new SRAM RED AXS and a host of unique features. Aerodynamics or lightweight alone don’t win races—speed is what matters. Delivering that speed requires creating an uncompromising combination of aerodynamics, lightweight, stiffness, and compliance.
Through race simulations using real-world data, the Ride Science team knows the Tarmac SL8 is the fastest race bike ever made on the routes that matter—16.6 seconds faster over 40km, 128 seconds faster over Milan San Remo, 20 seconds faster over the legendary Col du Tourmalet climb. To celebrate the launch of the lightest disk brake group ever, this S-Works Tarmac SL8 comes in a gorgeous, limited Glacial Metallic color with all-new SRAM RED AXS, custom Roval graphics, silver accents, and the new Hammerhead Karoo 3 cycling computer.
With massive gains in stiffness-to-weight - an improvement of 33% over the SL7 - the Tarmac SL8 takes legendary handling, aggressive responsiveness, and World Championship-proven geometry to the next level. The bike is stiffer at the pedals, more precise at the bars, and combines it with a compliant ride in the saddle that sets a new benchmark for race bike comfort. Thanks to Rider-First Engineering, every rider gets the same unprecedented ride quality and handling regardless of size.
Features:
- Aero in everything: optimized for maximum advantage with the Tarmac’s new nose cone, the Speed Sniffer.
- Minimum weight, maximum aero: 685-gram frame, 15% lighter than the Tarmac SL7.
- Goes like hell, rides like heaven: 33% improvement in stiffness-to-weight over the SL7.
- Beyond gender: designed for all riders, regardless of gender.