They did, and I can't recall what brake they used.

I have personally installed a TriRig Omega on the rear of a p5, and it requires nothing special other than patience, as there is room to turn a hex wrench exactly 1 face of a hex bolt per turn when you bolt a brake on!

It works well.

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

But you need to space it away from the frame, right?

Hopefully someone will chime in about the early P5-3 builds.

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"One Line Robert"

Brakes always have to be spacered some amount from the fork or frame. I was able to make it work with the regular kit of spacers that come with the tririg. I don't remember if it was an unusually big stack of them or not.

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Kat Hunter reports on the San Dimas Stage Race from inside the GC winning team
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Freelance sports & outdoors writer Kathryn Hunter

Good to know and appreciated.

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"One Line Robert"

I couldn't get the Tri-Rig to work well without a metric crap ton of friction and also a giant stack of spacers. I kind of lost it when Nick suggested I just drill a hole in the downtube of my new bike. I asked him if he'd warranty the frame if I did that. <SMH>. So I just got a TRP brake with the metal noodle and it works just fine.

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Heath Dotson
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Hahahaha oh god. I wish I could have been a part of that conversation. WTF.

I mounted a TriRig brake on the rear of my P5-3 and had no special issues whatsoever. It worked just fine.

The size difference in the bikes probably makes a difference. And bar choice.

They did make a cable brake version of the 3. They specd a special TRP variant of one of their brakes with the cable pull from the opposite side. I couldn't find one and cervelo didnt have one when I checked. But I think any of the TRP with noodle can be made to work well. And with the cover, who cares about the aero of it.

Also, did a tri rig back there. It took some fine tuning to the cable length and a modification of the bb guide, but I got it working pretty well.

How did you end up modifying the BB guide? Pic by chance? I'm wondering how I want to handle that same challenge right now.

Thanks.