Cervélo P5 Launched

Cervélo have officially unveiled their new P5 triathlon bike at their 2012 BikeBrain event in Fuertaventura.

Finally revealed - the Cervélo P5

With competition in the time trial and triathlon sector more ferocious than ever, there has been much speculation as to whether the Canadian company would follow the Specialized Shiv’s lead and be available with separate triathlon and UCI legal frames.

In fact, Cervélo have chosen to put all of their research and development into producing a single frame that’s their most aerodynamic ever as a UCI legal machine, and which can be further advanced with triathlon add-ons.

The UCI-legal version – the P5 – comes with a narrow fork much like the P4, while the P5 TRI will ship with all the extras including a wider fork that works in combination with a nose cone brake cover and ‘beard’ – a section that links the top of the brake cover with the stem. The P5 TRI also gets Magura’s incredible new RT8TT hydraulic brakes and the new Cervélo-3T co-developed aerobar setup.

Cervélo’s buzzwords with the P5 are ‘Simply Faster’. “Everything has both a simplicity aspect to it and a speed aspect to it,” says Paul White, founder of Cervélo. “If you look at what’s happened in the bike industry over the last few years, everything has got more complex. Nothing works together with an industry standard, which means in a lot of cases they’re made from far worse than industry standard parts.

“Here we sat down and said, ‘this is the wrong direction; it has to get simpler. We have to stick with the industry standard interfaces but we have to make it faster as well. It’s faster and simpler in everything we do.” This ethos is found throughout the bike’s four key areas; frame, aerobar, brakes and storage solutions.

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Posted on Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 5:01 am under Gear, News. You can subscribe to comments. Comments are closed.

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