Turbo Vado 2 4.0 or 5.0 or 6.0?

[rochrunner]

Great looking bike! Almost gives me buyer's remorse for the route I took.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Interesting... All Vado SL 2 5.0 have been removed from the Polish website of Specialized while two models of SL 2 4.0 have been added...

 

[mcdenny]

Interesting... All Vado SL 2 5.0 have been removed from the Polish website of Specialized while two models of SL 2 4.0 have been added...

Weird, when I ordered my bike on Jan 20, Spec showed 10+ in stock and the bike arrived the LBS said it would be at their store in 5-7 days and it was.

 

[mcdenny]

Great looking bike! Almost gives me buyer's remorse for the route I took.

Hi rochrunner, I see you are in Rochester Hills MI. My wife and I are OU grads and I lived basically at the intersection of 26 mile road and Canada for 50 years. Small world.

I followed your posts about loving your SL 5.0 but wanting the lower step over height. I'm in the same boat regarding hip flexibility. I can swing my leg over the seat (barely) but I know that's an accident waiting to happen when I don't clear the seat. I would have liked to get the Carbon frame 6.0 but that's not available as a step through. A short test ride with a dropper seat post showed that to be an improvement but I decided to go with the step through as the safest choice plus we ain't getting any younger.

I seriously considered following your lead and getting one of the NOS 4.0 bikes but in the end decided the future shock plus the more powerful motor were worth the extra weight. I've been riding a Como 3.0 with the same power and battery size as the SL 2 so knew that would be plenty of power and range for me. Also I was used to a 62# bike so this 44# one feels a lot lighter.

 

[mschwett]

Weird, when I ordered my bike on Jan 20, Spec showed 10+ in stock and the bike arrived the LBS said it would be at their store in 5-7 days and it was.

specialized has a certain number of bikes that only go to the stores, another number for consumers to buy direct on the website, and some other number which could end up elsewhere or both or so on. so if you go in and ask, what they see definitely doesn’t match the website. i bought a bike once that the shop said they couldn’t get for 6 months, online it was available in a month or two and of course i could have it assembled at the shop and picked up just as if they’d had it…

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I seriously considered following your lead and getting one of the NOS 4.0 bikes

What does NOS mean here?

 

[mschwett]

What does NOS mean here?

New Old Stock

a previous year’s model, but still new and unsold.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

New Old Stock

a previous year’s model, but still new and unsold.

Ah, like my SL 1 then — purchased in September, 2024, frame sticker dated October, 2022. No discount, though.

 

[mschwett]

Ah, like my SL 1 then — purchased in September, 2024, frame sticker dated October, 2022. No discount, though.

i wonder what the pattern or logic is, there have been big sales on previous years’ models, and then they’re full price, and then back and forth again! you’d think they either have a lot of them or not….

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

i wonder what the pattern or logic is, there have been big sales on previous years’ models, and then they’re full price, and then back and forth again! you’d think they either have a lot of them or not….

Hard to figure. Surely they're not discovering stock they'd lost track of.

According to my dealer, mine was "discovered" languishing in its unopened shipping box in a Texas warehouse. But hard to imagine that happening in numbers big enough to trigger NOS sales.