I wonder why the bike sports a time fork instead of the wolf?

Notice it says "Vroomen White Designs" in the down tube instead of the "traditional" Cervelo thingy. Very nice looking, nevertheless.

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That's also a Time stem as well. Interesting.

The R2.5 uses a 1 1/8" steerer and the 1 1/8" Wolf is not yet ready. You will actually see some of the other team bikes with non-Wolfs as well. The reason for this is that the production capacity for the Wolf is quite limited and sales of models that use the Wolf (Soloist Team an SuperProdigy) is much higher than anticipated.

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Gerard Vroomen
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Of course the unwritten sentiment was that there had to be a perfectly plausible reason for the non-Cervelo parts. You're certainly having a good year Gerard! Even better than expected, from the sounds of things. Sounds like sales are outstripping current production across nearly the entire line. Due to my unfortunate accident I'll be ordering yet another new tri-bike soon. It'll probably be a Cervelo.

as an interesting aside - the pundits over at v-news ( the forum, not the mag) have speculated everything from this bike being a parlee, to a prototype time. they also speculate that the cervelo's we have thus far seen under tyler and the crew are actually pegoretti's. anything, it seems, but cervelo's. (!) gotta love the internet.

The lugs at the joints do make the bike look like a Parlee or a Calfee but the sloping top tube and style of the joints seem distinctively different from either of the aforementioned. How are the lugs formed? Is the process similar to Calfee and Parlee?

It does have the Cervelo "e" logo as a headbadge, though.