Luke Lamperti's Specialized Tarmac SL8

Trinity Racing's riders have been easy to spot at this year's Tour of Britain.

The team, headed by sports director Peter Kennaugh, took to the UK streets on a line-up of freshly minted Tarmac SL8s finished in a paint scheme that's either strikingly artistic or overly garish, depending on your sensibilities. Underneath the bold brush strokes is Specialized's remodelled race bike built using its highest-grade 12r FACT carbon. It's a silhouette we'll be seeing plenty of, given its prevalence in the professional peloton.

Luke Lamperti's SL8 is equipped with SRAM's recently updated wireless groupset, Force AXS. Here, the 20-year-old American opts for a 54/41 chainset paired with a 10-33t cassette. Unlike Tom Pidcock and his penchant for 'old tech', Lamperti's use of a second-tier groupset (Force sits behind Red in SRAM's groupset hierarchy) is likely a result of Trinity's Continental team status. However, given his 2023 form that's seen him score a hat-trick of stage wins at the Tour of Japan, it's clearly not holding him back -notch one up for the quality of trickle-down technology.