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Hi I'm Phil White, I'm one of the co-founders of Cervelo,
today we're looking at the S5. We're using it with 3T
components here for the bar and stem and Fizik components for
the saddle. You see here for Rohan's bike he prefers the Arione -
riders have a variety of different preferences and everyone's butt is a little
bit different, so people choose different saddles depending on what they're
looking for.
The cranks are Rotor, a Spanish company. They make two versions of the crank, a
lighter version that
some people prefer but also the Flow, which is more aerodynamic and you can see it
with the solid chainrings as a significant aero advantage as well.
You can see Rohan's running the standard Dura-Ace 11-speed electric
drivetrain
and he's running today an 11-25,
but the team will swap it out depending on the on the race and the day
for different cog sets, so you'll see in the high mountains they'll be running
28s
typically sometimes they will swap out the front chain rings.
Always specced with Garmin for the computers
and Camelbak for the bottles. We shouldn't forget the wheels
by Mavic. They're a significant advantage in the overall performance of the bike
whether it's a regular road race stage or a time trial
Mavic has done some spectacular work in the last few years on development of
aerodynamics
and they've always been a light, very, very durable wheel set as well.
The frame itself is the S5, it's been around for I guess a couple years now.
The idea was to take time trial level performance
and build it into a road bike. So what we've got here is an extremely
aero bike, it looks very much like a time trial bike, you can see that in the extended
seat tube cutout here
but also in just the fact that it's very, very narrow. So we have a dropped downtube,
similar on what you'd see on a time trial bike,
this smoothes the air flow from the fork onto the frame and fills in the
turbulent area behind the fork.
It's built for bottles, so it's designed to work with the bottles,
so it flares out a little bit to provide some fairing
of the bottles. And the really neat thing is the brakes,
they're actually hidden behind these shielding stays, so if you look at it from the
front, the brakes actually are completely hidden behind the shoulders of the seat stay
and of course it's built on this
asymmetric BBright platform. It's asymmetric, stiffer and lighter,
so the crank and the bottom bracket and the frame are designed together as a system
to provide the best overall advantage for the bike as a whole.