After reading Dan's article on the front page on the P2/3 and QR PR3/5, I found myself browsing QR's website and saw they have an updated color scheme for the 2018 PR6
Beauty is always a bit personal, bit IMHO this they nailed it with the paint/graphics on this thing. Simple well placed graphics, great color - it just pops. It reminds me of a custom paint job that was featured on the front page about a year ago. When I read that piece I thought "Quintana Roo should make this their standard paint scheme, much better than any of their current offerings."
Add this to the fact that it is really easy to work on (per the guys one of my local shops and message board users), handles well from ride reports, has great built in storage, features an updated stem which makes fitting easier (and give a better range of fits?), and as a frameset it's 2 pounds lighter than the IA (yes, weight isn't everything, but it is a bonus). On top of all this it (per their own data, which interestingly was run at 22 mph) holds its own agains the competition in the all important -10 to 10 degree yaw range:
It surprises me this bike (and it's little brothers the PR3 and PR5) only get a fraction of the love most of the other bikes on here get. At $4500 for the ultegra mechanical version of the PR6 it's just 500 more than the mechanical ultegra Cervelo P3. And the former includes both the QR box and the top tube storage so you don't have to spend extra $$ on 3rd party add-ons or trying to figure out which one works the best and has the least drag. If I was choosing between the two I'd go with the QR in a heartbeat. And this is coming from a guy who currently has a Cervelo P2 and R3 sitting in his garage right now.
Speaking of top tube storage. The bag must've gone through puberty this past year as it looks WAY longer the one included with the 2017 version. I feel like this bike might actually have more integrated storage than the P5x and DB Andean combined.
Matt
Beauty is always a bit personal, bit IMHO this they nailed it with the paint/graphics on this thing. Simple well placed graphics, great color - it just pops. It reminds me of a custom paint job that was featured on the front page about a year ago. When I read that piece I thought "Quintana Roo should make this their standard paint scheme, much better than any of their current offerings."
Add this to the fact that it is really easy to work on (per the guys one of my local shops and message board users), handles well from ride reports, has great built in storage, features an updated stem which makes fitting easier (and give a better range of fits?), and as a frameset it's 2 pounds lighter than the IA (yes, weight isn't everything, but it is a bonus). On top of all this it (per their own data, which interestingly was run at 22 mph) holds its own agains the competition in the all important -10 to 10 degree yaw range:
It surprises me this bike (and it's little brothers the PR3 and PR5) only get a fraction of the love most of the other bikes on here get. At $4500 for the ultegra mechanical version of the PR6 it's just 500 more than the mechanical ultegra Cervelo P3. And the former includes both the QR box and the top tube storage so you don't have to spend extra $$ on 3rd party add-ons or trying to figure out which one works the best and has the least drag. If I was choosing between the two I'd go with the QR in a heartbeat. And this is coming from a guy who currently has a Cervelo P2 and R3 sitting in his garage right now.
Speaking of top tube storage. The bag must've gone through puberty this past year as it looks WAY longer the one included with the 2017 version. I feel like this bike might actually have more integrated storage than the P5x and DB Andean combined.
Matt