Cervelo S5

They roll awesome. Another, what this also means for you is that if you like the bike, I'm telling you that it's it's ride like a dream, it's awesome ...

So big thumbs up for the group set and then in terms of the bike, it's just an absolute rocket ship, like i said before, probably the most um enjoyabl...

If i'm honest, i find it really hard to sort of find a bad point about this bike.

However after riding it I am really happy with my purchase. To me, the S5 is really one of the coolest looking bikes released.

Leaning towards SRAM Red AXS, my son has it on his bike and I really like everything wireless and the battery charging and the power meter in the crank is sweet. I currently ride Dura- Ace on an older Cervelo S5.

Everything else I do myself, including building up the bike I'm riding these days (Cervelo S5). The reason I don't pay a bike shop to do anything is partly due to the (ridiculous) cost, but also because I've had enough bad experiences with bike shop 'mechanics' screwing up even simple things that I just don't trust them. For instance:. * Replacing a shift cable housing.

The weight reduction will translate, to a certain extent at least, to a higher FTP *when climbing,* as if you yourself suddenly lost 7 pounds. Aside from that, I'd assume your old bike has Endurance geometry, and the new one has Race geometry? Speaking as someone who rode a Trek Pilot 2.1 frameset for 10 years, including training and racing on it, then got a Cervelo P2 and, most recently, a Cervelo S5, you'll probably find that in some respects you'll have to learn to ride differently because the bike will outperform your old one on curves and when cornering, which on a highly technical course will *effectively* make you faster, not having to slow down as much for curves and corners. It's been about a year and a half since I got done building the S5 and I'm still learning to trust it's handling, still surprised how much faster I can take corners and curves.

The Cervelo s5 is a work horse aero bike for flat stages and mild climbing. Throw a pair of clip on tri bars and you’ve got a TT bike. Even better with some deep dish wheels. Yes you can still climb it but you’d want to make sure you’ve got a lighter wheel set if possible.

Current bike: Cervelo S5, Ultegra R8000 groupset, 11-32 cassette, 36/52 cranks. I ride in the 52 chainring all the time because that's how it needs me to ride it and my cadence is 95 +/- 5 rpm almost all the time. But I do lots of intervals at threshold at 70rpm too. Chainrings and cassettes wear out just like chains.