True. But I bet he has a point. I'd speculate that if we ever get a wind tunnel test between a 'twitched-out NP2 and NP5, the NP5 would break out in all kinds of nervous sweat before maybe eking out a marginal victory.

Edit: Just using the theory of Peak Aero. No Cervelo-hate here.

You ride a 2012 P2 and rave about all black Roka trisuits. Everything about you screams boring. And, I don't say that in an insulting way. Triathletes are boring. This has disc brakes and a monostem and its probably the fastest tri bike ever made or damn close. If it had a flimsy $20 bento "integrated" would that change your opinion?? Admittedly, I would like to see Cervelo make use of eitehr the top tube on downtube an integrated bento, but boring??? If fast is boring, then I'll take boring every time.

Both bikes look all kind of awesome after having my aesthetic sense recalibrated by the Shiv thread.

Lol you don’t even know me. Also, 2011*

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Exactly.......what he said!

I’m not insulting you personally, but you clearly are conservative in your gear choices so I just think it’s ironic to call Cervelo boring

But I think we both probably agree that the average triathlete (not STer) wants a suped up, “loud”, “look at me” bike whether it is fast or not.

Ok I don't own a Cervelo, and may never, but I do have a legitimate question.........and I'm not trying to make this about disc brakes but since its in the subject......


I see the new mono-aero bar (could be kind of cool) but what is the fascination with disc brakes? I understand that if you have a road bike with disc wheels and you want to swap them out on your tri-bike, but I still don't understand disc brakes on tri-bikes. Like Trek stated....."we couldn't make a Speed Concept go faster with disc brakes"....so they didn't make one. If it doesn't make a bike faster, easier to wrench on, add size options, or maybe add convenient storage why do it?

I said that when it came out. I hated how it looked with black and red. The green made the lines of it significantly better. I don’t have a reason to get one but I’d definitely be more inclined now than last year.

I think at this point mostly fear. Getting caught without one on the market if that's the way the market turns. The bike industry created this trend, but it can't control the monster - can't create a firewall at the TT bike. Some of the bigs have already committed to disc TT. There's (or was) probably some hand-wringing going on at Trek. Trek also said they didn't want disc brakes on the Madone. Well guess what.....

Ah, well it would make sense for Cervelo to stick with Enve especially considering it seems that Enve is providing the wheels as well.

And it makes the pro teams have one less hassle. I know it’s not a huge deal but having non-disc wheels for your TT bike and Disc for the others is just an added pain that doesn’t need to be there.

Hideous.

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That's the P5-X, not the new P5 Disc Brake.

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looks like the super slice with a monopost and a better paint job

Honestly the P5X looks world's better with that paint scheme.

Hmmm, to each their own I guess. I think it's fugly. If I was in the market for a P5X, I'd be looking hard for a 2018 red/black model.

Interesting picture, thanks

The front (integrated fork + stem + base-bar + mono post) is very similar to Cervelo T5GB. Significant progress from current P5, at least for TT use.
The back is also similar to T5GB, apart from the front diagonal cut.
Seat post also similar to T5GB.
BB Box is smaller than existing : for lower integration of an additional bento box (like on the P5X) ? will be a good news, especially if it goes also on future P3/P2...

Very elegant bike. Not yet UCI approved as per their last list publisher (30 august 2018), but will probably be.
Much less changes than on the Shiv tri disk. It will be interesting to get aero figures on comparable configs (speed, yaw, bottles, bento, ...) to compare P5 Rim and P5 Disk with others, like for exemple old and new Shiv Tri.

HOT.

LOL! Now that makes the new Shiv look like a Ferrari!

That looks really good, I wish I had a alpha one aerobar installed on my p4, that would look darn close with the benefit of not having disc brakes ;)

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FTFY

Hahaha good one, that rear brake does need a Lot of attention, probably the worse thing cervelo ever designed. Maybe an industrial design trainee developed that one

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There’s a guy on these forums that sells an adapter for the rear brake, so you can install a TriRig Omega.

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I had the same reaction