Specialized Turbo Como 4.0: Everything You Need to Know

The Specialized Turbo Como 4.0 is a step-through city bike with a mid-drive, a chain, and fenders. Specialized’s U.S. product page prints a Specialized 2.0 motor at 70 newton-meters and 250 watts nominal, a U2-710 pack at 710 watt-hours, assist up to 28 mph, and a claim of 90 miles or 6.5 hours in Eco. The color opened here is $4,299.99. The family page also prints $3,799.99 against $4,299.99, and $3,999.99 against $4,499.99, on two other colors of the same name. Canada’s motor line says Brose, generation 2, 70 newton-meters, 28 mph. Italy caps assist at 25 km/h and, in two sentences, prints both 95 km and 145 km. The row on the list links here. The trail bike is a different motor.

One name, two drivetrains, and two motor sentences

Two hundred fifty watts nominal is the continuous number on the spec line. It is not a peak, and the page does not print a peak. Twenty-eight miles an hour is a marketing sentence on that page and on the Canada page. Twenty-five kilometers an hour is 15.5 miles an hour, and it is the sentence on the Italy page. A higher cap, Specialized’s own note says, can shorten the range. That is why 90 miles and 95 km should not be averaged into a third ride nobody published. The rack is 27 kilograms. Converting that into pounds would invent a capacity the page did not print.

The family page is four prices before you pick a size. The spec line is one motor. The Italy page is a different speed. Use the page in front of you.

Who it is for

It is the upright dealer commuter: fenders, lights, a rear rack rated for a child seat, a trailer approval on the product copy, and a motor at the bracket. It is not the Turbo Levo 4. That one is the trail bike, a 3.1 motor, and a different watt-hour. A 250-watt nominal with a 28 mph sentence is not a hub you unlock in an app. Read the mid-drive page before you compare this torque number with a cargo hub’s. The Trek FX+ 7S is the other light dealer commuter on this list, and its pack is 360 watt-hours, not 710.

Pedals are here. A throttle is not on the spec block. Twenty-eight with no thumb is the shape of Class 3 in the three-class model, and 25 km/h is the EU cap. The page does not print either class word. The class chart is how those two speeds got their names. The watt-hour page is what 710 means next to a 90-mile Eco claim that another country writes as 95 km and then, lower down, as 145 km. Sixty-one point six pounds is a catalog weight. It is not a figure on the Specialized block, and it is not a scale in this office.