JSA wrote:
It cracks me up that you seem to think the Transition is a brick. As others have said, it tested better than the P3. More importantly, it PROPERLY fits a large segment of riders, unlike many of the other bikes out there right now, including a number of "super bikes."
Any company can make tall claims, but being able to back it up is another story. The
Cervelo P3 Carbon has gotten a lot of media attention, but when tested under the
same wind tunnel set-up as the Specialized Transition, the Transition came out on top.
The Specialized Transition has lower drag at all crosswind angles compared to the
Cervelo P3 Carbon, with significantly reduced drag at 0 and 5 degrees.
Head-on, the Transition has 9% less drag than a Cervelo P3 Carbon.I wouldn't (and didn't) describe it as a brick, but looking at the Transition there are obvious areas where aerodynamics could have been improved (ex. sloping TT); it's notable that most of these were addressed/fixed in the Shiv.
The specialized literature that shows the Transition as faster than the P3 has one fatal flaw IMO. They tested with stock wheelsets, so the Transition had the benefit of the Roval wheels while the P3 basically had training hoops on [see the pics below...the Rovals are much narrower and lower spoke count]. They also tested the P3 with an un-cleaned-up cable routing (thus the poor 0 deg. yaw numbers), but you can argue that that's fair since that's how it ships.
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