Don't be fooled by the prototype sticker, this is rea🎐dy toꦰ roll
(Image credit: Will Jones)
While Remco Evenepoel is certainly well and truly in the conversation to take the yellow jersey at this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, the two big favourites are Tadej Pogačar, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:whose bike I've already bought you an in-depth gallery of, and Jonas Vingegaard. The latter of the𝓀 two favourites has already won the race twice, but fell short lasꦬt year in part thanks to having to come back from some career- or even life-threatening injuries.
This year, Visma-Lease A Bike has two new machines to ride on. In the high mountains, they can call upon a brand 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:new, lightweight Cervélo R5, but for the majority of the race, they will be aboard a brand new, 𒈔all-aero Cervélo S5.
Visually this bike is very similar to the outgoing model, something I went into when I first 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:saw it at the𒈔 Critérium du Dauphiné, but now w꧑hile driving around various team hotels before the start of the race, I got a chance to spend some pr🎃oper quality time with it, in the presence of some of the Cervélo engineering team.
From what I'm told - bear in mind the bike still has a 'prototype' sticker on it - this new machine is a full 6 watts faster than the old S5, a bike that came out 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fastest in our🌃 oꦡwn wind tunnel testing at zero yaw (a block headwind).
The cockpit has a lot to do with this, sitting as it does at the leading edge of 💮the machine, but there's also a higher bottom b🅷racket shell, sharper cutoffs for the trailing edges, and wheels designed in system with the frameset.
The wheels, new Reserve 57/64 number🎃s, are allegedly three watts faster for the same weight as the older models, and these, I'm told, are key to adding higher yaw performance to complement the arrow-straight performance of the frameset.
Don't be fooled by꧃ the prototype sticker ꧂though, from what I can tell, these bikes are basically production models now in all but name.
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Finally, while it may seem like we are chasing smaller and smalle🌼r gains with each new machine, I was informed by the Cervélo engineer that we "aren't even close" to the peak of aerodynamics yet, which is good news for my job at least.
It's not re🔯ally a visual departure from the old S5, so think of it more like evolution than revolution. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The front end has been given a protruding nose cone, muc😼h like that of the Specialized Tarmac SL8 and⛎ the Pinarello Dogma F (Image credit: Will Jones)
The downtube is sculpted around the front wheel. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The fork is a bayonet, hinged afꦏfair﷽, which creates a far deeper effective head tube for greater aero benefits. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The new bars are slimmer, and are now a one-piece unit ♓rather than a modular syst🅺em. They are backwards compatible with the old model too. (Image credit: Will Jones)
Jonas is a smaller rider, and with the rise for his position being taken up to a g♍reater degree by the stem his head tube is really rather short. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The thinner crossbar still manages to house a computer mount. I'm told ꦐthe riders like to hold the tops with their thumbs t🌟hrough the gap. (Image credit: Will Jones)
I couldn't get to the bottom of what this coding means I'm afraid. It seems ꦯdi🍰fferent from rider to rider and bike to bike. (Image credit: Will Jones)
Unlike the new R5, the brak✨es on the S5 are flat mount to maximise aerodynamic benefit. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The 🐟trailing edges of the tubeꩵs have sharper cutoffs. (Image credit: Will Jones)
And the bottom bracket area has been made highꦆer. (Image credit: Will Jones)
I🌃t says prototype, but this is effectively a production model now. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The saddle crad♛le is now carbon to save some weight. (Image credit: Will Jones)
A Prologo Scratch M5 💛PAS saddle is Vingegaard's perch of choice. (Image credit: Will Jones)
The mechanℱics have taped over the re✅ar adjustment dial to make it more aero. (Image credit: Will Jones)
A Wolf Tooth Lon🔜eWolf Aero Blade Chainguide, designe🌺d specifically for Cervelo, keeps the chain secure on his 1x setup. (Image credit: Will Jones)
Here it's fitted with a 52t single chainring up front, but we expect that to change from day to day depending on the prꦏofile of each stage. (Image credit: Will Jones)
And he's using 160mm cranks, which although slightly longer than the 155mm cranks we've seen him use in the past, are still significantly shorter than most of the peloton, who hoverও between 170 and 175mm. (Image credit: Will Jones)
Will🔯 joined the Cyclingnews team as a reviews writer in 2022, having previously written for Cyclist, BikeRadar and Advntr. He’s tried his hand at most cycling disciplines, from the standard mix of road, gravel, and mountain bike, to the more unusual like bike polo and tracklocross. He’s made his own bike frames, covered tech news from the biggest races on the planet, and published countless premium galleries thanks to his excellent photographic eye. Also, given he doesn’t ever ride indoors he’s become a real expert on foul-weather riding gear. His collection of bikes is a real smorgasbord, with everything from vintage-style steel tourers through to superlight flat bar hill climb machines.
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