Actually, Dev, I was not referring to a P2SL since my P2 was the original model from '98. I borrowed it back from HH a couple of months back and it I have been using it as my PC bike in the aero position. I used to think Cervelo made the top tubes too long for me, but after riding it again and getting my hands on a P2C for a month, now I will go back to my other problem with Cervelo—seat tube angle. If they maintained their top tube length and made a steeper seat angle then perhaps I could ride them with more confidence. As it is, I have to push the seat as far forward as possible and this effectively shortens the top tube and the “cockpit” way too much for me. On the P2C I compensated by putting a negative 40 degree, 130mm stem to stretch me out again, but then I was hanging way out over the front end.
The result is here
and if you click the next photo you can see a bit of an angle. The body position was fine, but handling was understandably poor given the weight distribution.
I do not know how the bottom bracket height affects things. I know Ves made a comment about the Davo road bike, saying that he wasn’t going to raise the BB because I was crazy enough to be using long crankarms (he designed the Yaqui for 180s), so perhaps he did raise the bb a bit on the tri bike. If he did, then it has since been offset by me switching to 190mm arms. The difference between the Yaqui and both Cervelos was seat angle and head tube/fork rake. When riding the Yaqui on the aerobars I look straight down and my line of sight is a couple of inches behind the front hub. On either Cervelo with a somewhat shorter cockpit but similar “seat in front of bb distance” I was looking a couple of inches in front of the front hub.
I rode the P2C in the above pictured race for 30K but it had only a few turns and was not at all technical. It was fast, but I would not want to try it, for instance, at American Zofingen in a couple of weeks.
Chad