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The Specialized Creo SL is a jetpack for city streets

DREAMS OF our transportation future may still include flying cars and jetpacks, but there is a more practical (and just as techie) alternative that’s already rolling through cities: the electric-assist bicycle. Most of the available options are more utilitarian than visionary. But that’s about to change.

Specialized, the company that developed the first readily available mountain bike 38 years ago, has now built an e-bike with that same radical departure in thinking, design, and tech. Called the S-Works Turbo Creo, this bicycle is lighter, more efficient, and more thrilling

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