Help Identifying a Specialized Road bike

[HerrOtto]

Today I purchased a Blue in Color Specialized Road bike that is believed to be from mid to late 90's. I have tried using bike pedia to compare components with this bike but have failed to I.D. the model or year. The bike has the following: A1 aluminum frame,fork is Kinesis aluminum 6061 and is Chrome in color, Front derailleur is Shimano 105, the following are all Shimano RSX: brakes, rear deraileur, hubs, crank set, the rims are Mavic, and it is a 8 speed, right shifter is a Shimano Ultegra flight deck and the left shifter is a Shimano 105 flight deck. The Shifters may have been upgraded per the owners son. Any help identifying the model and year is appreciated.

 

[bulldog1935]

Velobase dates the RSX RD as late '90s, - 1999 was the last year of the RSX group.
RSX pins your bike upper limit date as 1999. RSX group became Sora in 2000.

Noteworthy, RSX 7-speed brifters were introduced in 1995, upgraded to 8-speed in 1999. Indexed downtube shifters were also available through 1998 (all 7-speed).
My guess is your bike was sold as a 7-sp in 1998 or earlier.
The 105SC was one step up in the Shimano hierarchy, Ultegra above that, and guessing these were later upgrades on your bike, along with a new 8-sp cassette.

BTW, if it's missing RSX 7-sp brifters, these are highly desirable as the only 7-sp brifters that were ever offered.

 

[HerrOtto]

Bulldog1935, thanks for the great info. Would you guess that the bike is the entry level Specialized Allez road bike or one of the higher level Allez line? Thank you

 

[bulldog1935]

It's an A1 Sport, not enough catalog information out there to pin down the year.